Jaguar Land Rover – Future Of Urban Mobility

Jaguar Land Rover – Future Of Urban Mobility

JAGUAR LAND ROVER UNVEILS  FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY  

  • Bold next step of Jaguar Land Rover’s Destination Zero journey unveiled with visionary mobility concept
  • Project Vector ‘autonomy-ready’ platform offers solution to today’s urban mobility challenges with unparalleled interior space and flexibility in vehicle configuration
  • Company vision integrates Project Vector platform into future smart city infrastructures, delivering services for private and shared mobility needs
  • Partners engaged, on-road pilot programme in Coventry, from 2021

Jaguar Land Rover - Future Of Urban Mobility

Jaguar Land Rover has today unveiled the bold next step in its Destination Zero journey, offering its vision of an autonomous, electric, connected future for urban mobility, with the reveal of Project Vector.

Jaguar Land Rover’s Destination Zero mission is an ambition to make societies safer and healthier, and the environment cleaner. Delivered through relentless innovation, the company’s focus is on achieving a future of zero emissions, zero accidents and zero congestion – through its products, services and across its facilities.

As the next stage of that journey, Project Vector showcases an advanced, flexible, multi-use electric vehicle that is ‘autonomy-ready’, with an on-road pilot programme planned from late 2021.

At the reveal, Jaguar Land Rover Chief Executive Officer, Prof Sir Ralf Speth, commented: “Jaguar Land Rover understands the trends shaping modern societies.  Project Vector shows Jaguar Land Rover as a leader in innovation to make our societies safer and healthier, and the environment cleaner.  Through this project, we are collaborating with the brightest minds in academia, supply chain and digital services, to create connected, integrated mobility systems – the fundamental building blocks for Destination Zero.”

“Project Vector is precisely the brave and innovative leap forward needed to deliver on our mission.”

JAGUAR LAND ROVER UNVEILS  FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY  

The compact, flexible vehicle concept measures just four metres in length and is designed for the city, packaging all its battery and drivetrain components into a flat floor, to allow a variety of uses. The revolutionary interior cabin space allows seating configurations for private, or shared use and even the opportunity for commercial applications, such as last mile deliveries.

PROJECT VECTOR – Developing Tomorrow’s Mobility. Today.

Project Vector has been created with the mission to raise the quality of future urban living.

It has been set up as a dedicated team based at the National Automotive Innovation Centre to gain the advantages of working in the manner of a start-up, especially agility and collaboration with academic and external partners.

It will also address the wider landscape of mobility, from how customers connect with mobility services, to the infrastructure required to enable fully integrated, autonomous vehicles in our cities.

Dr. Tim Leverton, Project Director said: “The megatrends of urbanisation and digitalisation make connected urban mobility systems necessary and inevitable. Shared and private vehicles will share spaces with and be connected to public transit networks, so you can travel on demand and autonomously. That is a complex task, best achieved by working together with partners across the spectrum of vehicles, infrastructure and the digital world.

“With the technology and engineering power of Jaguar Land Rover, we can provide a unique opportunity for innovators to develop highly-functional urban mobility services, seamlessly integrated into everyday life.

“Future urban travel will be a composite of owned and shared vehicles, access to ride hailing and on-demand services as well as public transport. Our vision shows the vehicle as a flexible part of the urban mobility network that can be adapted for different purposes.

JAGUAR LAND ROVER UNVEILS  FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY  

JAGUAR LAND ROVER UNVEILS  FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY  

Real-world partners – on-road trials from next year

In its first stage, Project Vector will be based at the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick, working with Coventry City Council and the West Midlands Combined Authority to launch a mobility service pilot starting in late 2021, as a living laboratory for future mobility on the streets of Coventry.

Professor Dr Gero Kempf, Chief Engineer said: “It’s also a unique opportunity – a platform designed and engineered around urban centric use cases by a major car maker as a blank canvas, for developing tailored services and apps in the ecosystem of a smart city.”

 

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