Citroën joins forces with several major French companies to paint a vision of the future of urban transport. The result: a few fully autonomous vehicles with diverse purposes.
What does the future of the city look like? A question that Citroën is asking itself together with JCDeaux and Accor Hotels, among others. It sat down with various parties to create an ideal image within everyone’s field. The basis for the vehicles that resulted is the Citroën Skate. A fully autonomous platform with four ‘wheels’, or rather a kind of balls that act as wheels. They can rotate 360 degrees and have hydraulic ‘cushions’ for damping. Of course, the whole is fully electrically powered and it can also be recharged via induction.
Citroen Skate
On that basis, Citroën went to JCDeaux, among others, a company that we also know here in the Netherlands from advertising screens along roads and, for example, at bus shelters. The latter is essential to know when looking at the Citroën JCDeaux City Provider (photo below). On it we see a kind of moving bus shelter or. tea house based on the Citroën Skate. You can jump aboard in no time, sit down or stand still for a while and in the meantime JCDeaux serves you some advertising while you roll to your destination.
Citroen JCDeaux City Provider
Another collaboration was between Accor Hotels and Citroën. Accor also has fitness services in its hotel chains under the Pullman name, and that’s where the Citroën Pullman Power Fitness (pictured below) comes into play. That’s a kind of riding gym if we’ve understood it correctly. Who wouldn’t want to combine traveling and sports? Taking the bike is not an option.
Citroen Pullman Power Fitness
Finally, a striking creation has emerged as a result of brainstorming sessions by Citroën and Accor. The Citroen Sofitel En Voyage. Sofitel is a chain of luxury hotels from Accor and they wanted to translate the atmosphere you have there into a means of transport. Hence the name, French for ‘Sofitel on a journey’. You can already see it: it has become a kind of moving hotel lobby, although it also resembles a hypermodern carriage.
Citroen Sofitel And Voyage
Is it all very relevant for now? No, not necessarily. Nevertheless, it is a nice preview of what the future of urban transport might look like. Do you see yourself getting into one of these ‘Citroëns’? Let me know in the comments!
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl