NIMAK - Auto Focus 2021

The research project was ambitious: A sustainable solution to mobility problems for people, goods and equipment in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa in the next decade. In addition to the development and testing of a specific vehicle concept, value chains in vehicle production, use and maintenance were also considered. This was done in cooperation with the local population and universities. The result is an affordable, electric, rustic utility vehicle that leaves out everything that is not absolutely necessary. The small van with permanent all-wheel drive copes with even the most difficult road conditions and requires little maintenance. In the meantime, the original project leaders, Martin Šoltés and Sascha Koberstaedt, have founded a company, EVUM Motors GmbH, as a spin-off of their university work, and now want to produce the vehicle in Bavaria and market it specifically for municipal use, forestry, landscaping, hunting, etc. The ecological and economic advantages of modular transport should later also be able to be used in emerging and developing countries, as envisaged in the project. AUTO-INNOVATION E-MOBILITY IN RURAL AFRICA Munich to Ghana and back – this would be one way to describe the path of a development project at the Chair of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. EVUM MOTORS – The new aCar | https://bit.ly/2LiKUag EVUM MOTORS EVUM MOTORS