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GM and Segway Look Ahead…To An Electric Rickshaw?

By Bengt Halvorson's avatar Bengt HalvorsonBengt Halvorson, April 7th, 2009

GM and Segway Look Ahead…To An Electric Rickshaw?

If you ask some of the foremost automotive designers, transportation experts, and futurists what personal transport will look like several decades from now, they’re likely to converge on a landscape that includes vehicles that are lower-impact, intelligent and networked, and definitely more intimate and personal. But you might not be doing the driving.

At the New York Auto Show today, General Motors and Segway are embracing this idea in a two-seat electric vehicle called Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility). The prototype, says Segway CEO Jim Norrod in an early morning release, demonstrates a “dramatically different...

If you ask some of the foremost automotive designers, transportation experts, and futurists what personal transport will look like several decades from now, they’re likely to converge on a landscape that includes vehicles that are lower-impact, intelligent and networked, and definitely more intimate and personal. But you might not be doing the driving. At the New York Auto Show today, General Motors and Segway are embracing this idea in a two-seat electric vehicle called Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility). The prototype, says Segway CEO Jim Norrod in an early morning release, demonstrates a “dramatically different... Read More

Tags: GM, Segway

Posted in: Electric Cars