Navya Arma in Paris is the answer to Car Postal that from Switzerland on sustainable mobility.
General Motors has announced that by 2019 its Cruise AV could be on the roads: the first car without manual controls of which we discover the first details in this video.
The tests have been going on in San Francisco and Phoenix for a long time and all Cruise AV controls are on the dashboard.
In Switzerland, the Car Postal company operates in Sion, in the Canton of Valais, and promotes the experimentation of a self-driven shuttle vehicle. Its path, inside the historical center, is an addition to the service of public transport.
The idea, in Switzerland, was accepted as a resource for the inconvenient areas to be reached for which a traditional scheduled service would have involved very high costs.
Paris joins the Navya Arma project to the chorus of sustainable mobility
The vehicle is developed in France but has an important Italian collaboration on the construction of the electric motor.
In fact, the Navya Arma engine is supplied by the Benevelli company from Rubiera, Reggio Emilia.
Its autonomy is equal to 8 hours and the mini bus uses an autonomous driving system able to identify obstacles promising the reduction of atmospheric and acoustic pollution in the most congested areas of the capital.
The fleet is ready in Paris, for the time being tested in private areas such as airports, hospitals, industrial sites, university campuses and amusement parks. Waiting for European legislation to allow free movement.
Navya Arma promises an operating saving of 40% compared to traditional means that allows the investment to be recovered in a fairly short time: it is 160,000 Euros for each vehicle.
The projections indicate that in Europe, by 2025, at least 10,000 vehicles of this type will be used for people.
Obviously the mobility revolution will be complete when all the energy to fill up will be clean and coming only from renewable sources. If all the vehicles circulating in Italy were powered by renewable electricity, then we would save 100 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
This, if the road traveled is towards the respect of the environment by all of us, is not at all impossible.
