I'm sally Povolotsky, I'm the Vehicle Development Director here at Uniti. So I fell into the automotive industry from a passion for cars
Even though I'm a huge EV advocate, I'm a big lover of classic vehicles
I think you have to understand the heritage of the automotive space to understand where the future lies
And of course, its heritage of automotive is actually electric vehicles since 1832
I've been around all sort of fragments of the automotive industry from what we call aftermarket parts and accessories
servicing
PR, marketing
commercial
Motorsport and then into what we call
OEM manufacturers, which is the original equipment manufacturers
Which is what Uniti is on pathway to become. In the true nature of working on projects
Unfortunately, most of the cars that I have worked on in the past are pretty much
under the carpet
I used to mostly work in things called prototype workshops in low volume production and prototyping and areas called skunk works
so a lot of the time the vehicles that we were making would either be for a high-end experential marketing campaign, for example
certain films or all the way through to
Visualizing a vehicle of the future and taking somebody's concept and idea, and turning that into a reality
So a kind of a mutual friend of the company
Sort of an EV influencer in the UK - guy called Roger
Told me about Uniti's launch, U17 last year
Looked up the vehicle, was very interested as I was doing a lot of previous research in L7e style vehicles
So had a great interest in coming to see how you guys are doing it
You appeared from the outset to be breaking all the standard automotive rules
Which I liked so I jumped on a plane, hired a car and headed into Sweden to come and watch your launch
Appreciate the good branded beer
And the style and the confidence you guys give as a brand
Stayed in touch with Lewis and just said to him
When the time comes that you're ready to actually build this car then please call me and thankfully he did
you're developing a car for the future for the
Society of the future and the universe of the future and
the problem with doing a lot of work in standard automotive is
there's a process and there's a way that it has to be done and it's because
And no one will show you this written down the rulebook. It's just an urban myth
it has to be done like this and there's always processes and there's certain things we have to abide to
But kind of rules are there to be bent a little bit and processes are there to be challenged?
so yeah, the excitement for me is taking something which I can completely see myself commuting to work in and
The cycle path of the product developments over the next five to ten years and some of the fantastic design and user interface
to build
The ultimate vehicle which is made for a modern society
And that's what excites me. That's what's exciting about Uniti
I think the last few years and the few years the future few years coming up are the most exciting in the automotive space probably since
We went from horses to cars this
The rapidness of acceleration and innovation and technology and the adaption of the public to new energy vehicles
This is probably the most exciting time to be a new car company in the automotive space
The great thing about electric vehicle is it allows you to challenge perceptions of space
So in a normal combustion vehicle, you're very restricted by packaging to a large amounts
obviously most of the time the engine has to be in the front, your powertrain or your drive lines running underneath you and
it's a confined way of working
it's been this way for a very very long time and
The main differences between most the vehicles then just how do you tune up or down the engine?
And how do you have the space inside the cabin as well as things like safety cells
The nice thing about electric vehicles is it allows you, it challenges our perception of what power is
If you take any power junkie who may drive a really expensive hyper car
Which is combustion engine and you put them into an electric vehicle
It's something they probably never would have loved because they shouldn't because their petrol junkies
but the drive experience is completely different
The acceleration you can get, the torque and then it allows you to relax a lot more in the vehicle
Like any automatic car does it just takes it to another level. The experience of it being quiet,
You know the fact that you're not having to worry about fumes coming through your air units or anybody around you
it's just a much more conscious drive and it allows us as
manufacturers and developers of vehicles to focus more on those inside the cabin rather than having to focus so much more on the
engineering of the powertrain. The only limitation that we have to the
Electric vehicle market at the moment or the new energy vehicle market in general is the rate of adaption. So adaption and adoption
I don't think there is a shortage of people who want to get onboard and have an electric vehicle for many reasons whether it's
environmental trends
Or you know health reasons
The biggest issue we have at the moment. is how do we adapt
Society to electric vehicles. So we already have issues of things like battery anxiety on mobile phones
How do we overcome range anxiety? How can we build that infrastructure around us to ensure that we have enough
charging stations
How can we change the way that people change their driving, their living, their work patterns, to encompass that as a vehicle?
There's a lot of culture change that has to go on around electric vehicles. And then there's the technology price
So the biggest issue we have at the moment is the production of raw materials to create battery packs
Motors, gearboxes - these are all becoming pretty universal now and an adaption of technologies that already
Existed by the same companies already made original motors and gearboxes for combustion engines. The cells,
modules
Going into solid state. However, this is going to end up in the next five years
This is our biggest challenge is getting enough materials in order to create enough battery packs
so I think
nicely at the moment, everything is sort of running in its own swim lanes on parallel
So, you know, the big oil companies are now coming on boarding seeing the validity of working, you know buying up new energy
charging stations, infrastructures, working with energy companies. The battery cell producers are
looking at how they produce, how to be more
Lean in the production because battery production itself has waste like any production
And I think people are starting to accept that actually - do I need a car that does 600 miles to a tank?
What do I do in a day? What is my general travel pattern?
I think the next few years by the time the way driving this car out of the factory
There's gonna be a lot of really exciting changes and the great thing for Uniti is we're at the front of all of that
I think the future of electric vehicles a lot of it hinges around the future of society
I think society has to change the way that it works, the way that it thinks, the way that it lives.
Going forward, I think there'll be more tie-in with the automotive industry
Into housing, planning, construction. I think we'll all have to talk to each other a lot more
So we end up with solutions that fit a society that's moving to the future
So my role here as the vehicle development director - my role and my team of engineers will take the prototype vehicle
so the handful of vehicles that already exist and take the through a line of processes and
Validation through to a fully engineered vehicle ready to go on the road
The next phase now for us in engineering is we take the early
Prototype vehicles and obviously work through full engineering programs to get off first
What we call our job one - our first car off the production line
During this, we go through several phases. At the moment, we are going through a feasibility stage
So what we're doing is we're assessing all the data
We already have and all the information that we have which has been obtained by either
Some of the prototype driving or research done and design, something we call benchmarking or bookending. We look at the legislation
We look at what we can do in each different country
We push it where we can and we have to concede in some places on certain elements when it comes to the vehicle
We then move into an engineering program. This is very heavy - a lot of engineering design, a lot of computer work
Again, like we talked about before, a CAD computer-aided design and we turn this into a real model - a model that we can simulate
The great thing is using some of the Siemens software that we work with so we can take these models and we can put them
into all sorts of environments and we can understand how the vehicle will perform in heat, in cold with
Five miles left on the battery. We can do all this. We can also take it through crash
So we look at how the vehicle will perform in different scenarios in crash, whether that is the car,
Pedestrians or the passengers inside the vehicle. Once we've done this, we freeze, then we go through a full
sign-off process
so everything we do, every process we create, the process from how you as the user will utilize the
machines in front of you
So from the screens to the displays
All of this stuff is all thought about - everything
we think about every way you're going to use this car to make sure you have the best experience possible
Plus, at the same time, there is global
Legislation about crashing vehicles and we will go through these crashes and these scenarios and simulations to crash and again in different world
Environments. We then go into the scary phase which is the most exciting phase for any engineer
Which is called SOP - start of production. And that is when after
Many months of hard work and a huge amount of coffee
And tea, we see the first car roll off the production line
And for us, the most exciting part after that is watching our first customer
Get their first card to open the first car.
That's our motivation, and we're very much looking forward to sharing our journey with you
The feeling from Uniti was - we should just go all out and build an M1 vehicle. This means the car is homologated
So it goes to the process we just talked about - it goes through a full crash program
So everything around that vehicle, all the different legislations are all abide to - and we end up with a full
OEM M1 vehicle on the road homologated for the country roll-out
I think the thing about the Uniti vehicle in this very early prototype phase is like if you see any concept car,
A concept car then and the car that ends up on the road are normally quite different. The reason being is this is a great
Drawing board for designers to plan out the future vision of the vehicle
So I love the fact that probably in five, six years' time
This is exactly what a Uniti vehicle will look like. At the moment, due to legislation and technology,
There will be certain changes that have to be engineered in order to get it ready to go on the road
I think my favorite thing about the vehicle is definitely the cabin space
I've been in lots of one-seater vehicles and felt a little bit like home, maybe not in a car? I'm on like a tripod
type sort of
vehicle
Won't mention brands, but not felt particularly safe or encompassed? It felt more like a bike experience
than a car experience. I think the nice thing about the Uniti is it is a car
There's no mistaking it, the fact that you can carry a passenger if you want to or you've got extended space for work, gear, shopping
That's what I like about the Uniti and it's an organic
Machine that will grow and we will be first to market as soon as legislation changes
So I'm sure it's been talked about before but the way the car drives, so the steering wheel
The joysticks are amazing. I love them. But at the moment, unfortunately, there is no legislation that allows us to have a joystick car
But the steering wheel that's in design and in concept phase at the moment is quite akin to motorsport
I did a year of motorsport and really enjoyed it. So it's kind of flashbacks to the fun time at the track
I love the front end
And again, this is going to have to change slightly. But if anything, it's going to look even more bolder than it does now
I think there's some really interesting things that will happen with the interior and a few little things engineers
are going to hide along the way that you may find in your car in the future
So, as the Uniti car rolls off the line,
the technology within the car will be adaptive, so much of it will be software-based
So we will be able to update the user as the software needs updating or mapping changes or we need to send
Messages to you as a user or notify you when there's new charging points and things like that. So the
fact that a vehicle goes from just being a big lump of metal going on tarmac to
An organic machine that can communicate cross channel
We've got some great ideas of how you as the driver or the user can communicate with your car from your watch, your phone
potentially your clothing
Your home - there's really exciting plans for the future
so that's kind of
where I think Uniti will excel is getting those things to market before anybody else can. So the team of engineers
And myself are extremely excited to be working with a Swedish company
Sweden is obviously extremely famous for its design. We have many of its imports
Back at home. I have a fair few my house I've assembled myself
and the cleanest and the
Way the design team have approached with no boundaries is what excites us more than anything
It's great to come in as an engineering team and not feel like we're restricted and working together
On a path to excellence
So we end up with the best car we can all create either from our imagination
Our passion or utilizing the technology you have available to us
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