The car of the future at CES

The traditional car shows are increasingly losing in importance. Instead, the car maker technology trade fairs like the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to show their visions for the future of mobility.

By Notker Blechner, boerse.ARD.de

Actually, Detroit is the place to start, the Ford, Toyota and Daimler their first premieres in the new year. But those days are over. Meanwhile, Las Vegas turns out to be the new navel of the automotive world. "The CES has made all the car shows Off the track", says expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer. It has become the "poster child for car makers and suppliers".

Prefer to Las Vegas than Detroit

Actually represented in the desert city of Nevada, everything in the car scene. Daimler, BMW, Audi, VW, Toyota, Uber, Bosch, ZF, Conti – all of them are present at the Consumer Electronics Show. Some auto companies such as Daimler have adopted even by the auto show in Detroit, and prefer the CES in Las Vegas.

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"car show without the cars"

Bosch Shuttle

Such real-life models, however, are the exception in Las Vegas. The CES is more of a "car show without the cars," says industry expert Dudenhöffer. The manufacturers and the suppliers present at CES, their mobility visions for the world of tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. As a result, Bosch has unveiled a new self-driving concept-Shuttle as a world premiere. The electric vehicle can carry up to four people. With the concept of Shuttle, Bosch intends to demonstrate not only the Sensors and other electronic components, but also a whole range of mobility services.

Daimler Urbanetic

A piece of futuristic mobility concept Urbanetic of Daimler. Here is a self-propelled Chassis with electric drive, to which various modules can impose. It can be used as a Sharing vehicle or as a goods Transporter. Urbanetic to contribute to the relief of the traffic in the big cities.

On the way to the Smartphone-on-wheels

Byton vehicle display

With the Autonomous mobility of the interior of the cars is changing. The interiors of the future can look like, show the Audi, Kia and BMW at CES. That all this is not-so-distant Vision, is demonstrated in Byton. The Chinese Tesla-fighter has been designed for its electric SUV, the M-Byte has a huge screen, from the driver to passenger side over the entire car width. The M-bytes with a range of 520 kilometers to go to the end of the year in the series. He is to make the Model 3 of Tesla, which is currently the best-selling electric car in the world competition.

"We are not a car company, but a Tech company," emphasizes Byton-founder Carsten Breitfeld in the "Handelsblatt". That is, to make the car part of the networked world of people. The M-Byte is not just an electric car, but a "Smartphone on wheels". Whether the potential customer spend 40,000 euros, it will show.

much of the future

There are self-driving cars pure music of the future. Until Autonomous vehicles are coming on the roads, it will take experts some time to come. Because no one has mastered the technology so far, good enough for the series. The car service mediator Uber, the tested self-driving cars on the road, drove back to the commitment after a fatal accident temporarily.

source: boerse.ard.de

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