Not a single week goes by without an industrialist showing their intention to market an electric vehicle.
On paper, this activity looks like an Eldorado as it redistributes the cards in the sector.
In terms of engineering and production, replacing combustion engines with electric technology greatly simplifies the process.
Tesla is proving it.
Except that you don't improvise yourself as a builder.
Even with batteries, a car remains a complex object that requires multiple skills.
In recent times, the examples are legion of newcomers who have broken their teeth and who have given up in front of the wall of the cliff to climb.
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What responsibility at the wheel of an “autonomous car”?
The complexity of an automobile did not put Sony off.
The inventor of the walkman presented two electric vehicles at the last electronics fair in Las Vegas.
Witness to the seriousness of his approach, he even created a “Mobility” division.
Alongside the Vision-S 01 sedan unveiled in the United States two years ago, the inventor of the walkman unveiled the Vision-S 02 prototype.
Developed on the same technical basis as the sedan, this SUV is 4.90 m long, 1.93 m wide and 1.65 m high.
It has a power of 400 kW (544 hp) thanks to two electric machines, one per axle, making this SUV a four-wheel drive vehicle.
Taking care of aerodynamics in favor of consumption and autonomy, the shapes are very round.
The design of the roof forms an arc of a circle up to the end of the rear window.
The passenger compartment can accommodate up to 7 people in three rows.
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No details have yet leaked regarding the battery capacity, however, but the seriousness of the company came, on March 4, 2022, from a press release from Sony announcing the signing of a letter of intent with Honda in for the creation of a subsidiary dedicated to the design and marketing of electric vehicles.
The first models would be produced from 2025.
We know that Sony did not wait to approach Honda to work on the electric vehicle.
For almost a year, camouflaged prototypes have been accumulating kilometers on German test tracks.
It is true that the two concepts Vision-S 01 and Vision-S 02 are based on the expertise of the Austrian company Magna-Steyr in terms of engineering and technology.
With its vehicles, Sony aims to position itself on the top-of-the-range market, integrating the best of its technology in terms of hi-fi, imaging and entertainment into the passenger compartments.
Autonomous driving is also part of the developments Sony is working on.
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