AUTOnomy is the “Reinvention of the Automobile” and is the first vehicle to be designed from the ground up around a electric propulsion system and combines software controls, drive-by-wire technology and electric motors. This smart electric vehicle takes full advantage of component packaging and electronics to reinvent the automobile. WIth electricity at the wheels, fuel cells, batteries, and even internal combustion engines can power through electrification the future of mobility.
The GM AUTOnomy is a powerful vision of what the future of auto-mobility may become and as such offers an endless variety of all-wheel-drive vehicles built from an number of flexible “skateboard” chassis with unlimited plug-and-play body styles. The skateboard architecture is highly adaptive, scalable, modular, and upgradable and includes all of the essential systems: the propulsion system, an electronic network, electric traction and drive motors, and an on-board energy storage. The result is a zero emissions vehicle reducing the carbon footprint. This is the future where the only emission from the tailpipe is water vapor.
The journey of reinventing the automobile will end with the GM AUTOnomy and its green architecture, however it begins with electricity first vehicles. This includes the 100% Battery Powered vehicles like the Tesla Roadster, Plug-In vehicles with partial propulsion from batteries like the GM Chevy Volt, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles like the Honda FXC. Each electricity first vehicle vs. petroleum first brings the AUTOnomy closer to reality. The AUTOnomy demonstrated a viable future and through its development with the GM Hy-Wire and GM-Sequel brought forth the first plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (the first step in reinventing the automobile) utilizing identical packaging and technology advancements to build the bridge to a sustainable reinvention of the automobile future where electricity is the primary source of propulsion.
