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Written by Tom Harrison
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another game of car industry buzzword bingo! This week"s entrant? Why, it"s Renault"s new autonomous (check), electric (double-check), connected (triple-check), sharable (and BINGO) EZ-ULTIMO" Concept. This is the last of three EZ-branded vehicles to be revealed this year, after the EZ-GO taxi and EZ-PRO delivery van. We"re told the idea behind this series of vehicles not cars, because they bare little to no resemblance to cars as we know them was to create a "comprehensive and complementary family of robo-vehicles" that "envision the future of shared mobility". A future where you"re more likely to summon a shared vehicle with an app than you are to drive or, for that matter, own one yourself. Renault acknowledges such a future is still some way off, which we"d guess is at least partly why the ULTIMO looks more like it belongs in Blade Runner than it does trundling about West London. Because it"s built for 2049, not 2019.
Date written: 2 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13533
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another game of car industry buzzword bingo! This week"s entrant? Why, it"s Renault"s new autonomous (check), electric (double-check), connected (triple-check), sharable (and BINGO) EZ-ULTIMO" Concept. This is the last of three EZ-branded vehicles to be revealed this year, after the EZ-GO taxi and EZ-PRO delivery van. We"re told the idea behind this series of vehicles not cars, because they bare little to no resemblance to cars as we know them was to create a "comprehensive and complementary family of robo-vehicles" that "envision the future of shared mobility". A future where you"re more likely to summon a shared vehicle with an app than you are to drive or, for that matter, own one yourself. Renault acknowledges such a future is still some way off, which we"d guess is at least partly why the ULTIMO looks more like it belongs in Blade Runner than it does trundling about West London. Because it"s built for 2049, not 2019.
Date written: 2 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13533
