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Ford Looks Beyond the Cars for Future Mobility

Ford presents at Mobile World Congress its plans for the future of personal mobility. Among the prototypes on display at its booth at MWC this year was a small circular machine that, at first glance, could be confused with a Roomba robots. In reality it is Carr-E, a prototype designed by the Kilan Vas, who works in the Ford headquarters in Cologne, Germany. Carr-E is one of the finalists of the…

Ford’s Mobility Challenge Yields Three Better Ideas

– Striving to expand its reach into mobility—beyond its traditional building-cars-and-selling-them business—Ford started an ongoing discussion with its employees, named Cult of Disruption, looking for interesting new solutions to the problem of moving people around. In this, its second year, Ford issued a Last Mile Mobility Challenge. Workers were tasked to dream up alternatives to walking that…