Volvo could develop a robot that plugs in your car
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Volvo
The video above is an 8-minute interview with Ichiro Sugioka of Volvo talking about Volvo’s Recharge concept. Ichiro also talks about the many interesting advantages of battery-powered cars like the power company paying you $2,000 or $3,000 a year to use your car battery while it’s parked and using recycled hybrid batteries to store energy from wind turbines. These kinds of things, Ichiro admits, won’t be done by a car company. Car companies have developed home charging units for cars and Ichiro hints at a very interesting technology that might be coming from Volvo, robot pluggers. I will let Ichiro explain or you can watch 6:40 into the video interview above:
We would also like to have an automated plug-in system. Which is why we put the plug in the nose of the car. So that you could easily position yourself relative a robotic system, lets say. So that you don’t have to plug it in yourself.
Please, please, please, make this electric-car-plugging-robot Ichiro! Also, if you can, make the robot wash the windows and mow the lawn.
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[Source: YouTube]
 
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