{"id":6659,"date":"2019-05-16T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2019-05-21T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:07:49","slug":"urban-mobility-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/16\/urban-mobility-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Mobility Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arcimoto-The-Everyday-Electric.png\" alt=\"Arcimoto Fun Utility Vehicle - FUV\" class=\"wp-image-6204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arcimoto-The-Everyday-Electric.png 904w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arcimoto-The-Everyday-Electric-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arcimoto-The-Everyday-Electric-768x681.png 768w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Arcimoto-The-Everyday-Electric-338x300.png 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><figcaption>The electric powered Arcimoto Fun Utility Vehicle (FUV) is just coming to market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Uniti One a new urban mobility vehicle concept\" class=\"wp-image-6660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Uniti-One.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Uniti One urban mobility vehicle designed in Sweden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Urban Mobility Vehicles &amp; Opportunity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My colleague Stephen Metzger has penned an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"article (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smallvehicleresource.com\/research\/Market-Insights\/New-Directions--Speeding-Toward-Urban-Mobility-Systems-Will-The-Industry-Be-Onboard--\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the trend towards urban mobility. The big question he asks is whether the small, task-oriented vehicle industry will take advantage of this opportunity. As the golf car manufacturers have focused more on personal transportation vehicles (PTVs) and non-golf utility vehicles, urban mobility vehicles (UMV) would appear to be a natural progression. In addition, UTV manufacturers have some of the capabilities needed to compete in this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Urban Mobility Vehicles <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, startups are aggressively pursuing the UMV opportunity. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Uniti (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniti.earth\/product\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uniti<\/a> from Sweden, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"BARO (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barovehicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BARO<\/a> from the UK and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Arcimoto (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arcimoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arcimoto<\/a> from the US are some of the companies at the forefront on new vehicles and concepts for urban mobility. However, established auto manufacturer Daimler Benz is one exception to the startups with their Smart for Two small vehicle. The electric version of the vehicle is a foundational platform upon which the company plans to build. The question is where are the STOV manufacturers. In short, they appear to be well positioned for the opportunity but will they pursue it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Marc Cesare, Smallvehicleresource.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Mobility Vehicles &amp; Opportunity My colleague Stephen Metzger has penned an article on the trend towards urban mobility. The big question he asks is whether the small, task-oriented vehicle industry will take advantage of this opportunity. As the golf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/16\/urban-mobility-vehicles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}