Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Volkswagen’s Budd-e is the electric Microbus of the future — CES 2016”.
Hey it’s Chris from the version I’m standing in front of the Volkswagen buddy, which was unquestionably one of the most anticipated launches here at CES, certainly in the automotive space and possibly across the entire show. Few reasons for that one. It sort of evokes the microbus, which is an iconic brand for Volkswagen, it’s up there with the beetle and the thing. So this is sort of the modern reinterpretation of the microbus. It’S an electric vehicle well over 300 miles of claimed range, the bunch of cool things about this car, none of which are real, none of which are in a production car today, but might be eventually.
One is that you can just talk to this car. You don’t have to press a button to engage with the voice recognition. So that’s a lot like hey Siri or okay, Google or Alexa they’re using hey, buddy they’re, also a bunch of screens in it, and these are cool because they can connect to a bunch of smart home things. They brought LG onstage. They brought the maker of a smart doorbell, so you can see who’s at your door from your car, the doors all of the doors on this thing automatically open and closed with a gesture you just swipe at it or if you don’t want to swipe, you don’t Feel like moving your hands, you can talk to it. You can say: hey buddy, open the door problem. Is it’s not real, but considering these the response is getting here tonight and the language that Volkswagen is using. I am led to believe that some form of this car will be production eventually, if nothing else, the platform certainly will be.
They they’re building a modular electric architecture that they can use on a number of different vehicles, so that part will definitely make it to the factory floor. It’S just a question whether it’ll look like a microbus, that’s it from Volkswagen here at CES, 2016. Of course, we have plenty more CES coverage coming later this week, so stay tuned for that and subscribe to us on youtube we’re at the birds. .