Re-inventing carmaking
First Claim
1. Re-inventing carmaking by the design, production and/or use of a module for a car (or other vehicle).
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Better cars and better carmaking—they can solve problems like oil depletion, global warming, and the dying carmaking industry. But how do we get them? Modularity. Cars can be modular in design, production and use. Making cars using modularity will change the car industry. Now a very vertical industry where a few huge companies sell just complete cars, carmaking can change to a horizontal industry where thousands of companies sell car modules. Carmaking can become like the computer industry—innovative, vibrant, profitable. And modularity allows “mass customization”—tailoring a product to each buyer, but selling it at a mass production price. Like hand-tailored suits at off-the-rack prices. This invention brings that concept to cars. Cars are made out of black-box modules, and buyers choose from among different versions of each module. That makes buyer choice expand while price remains low.
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8 Claims
- 1. Re-inventing carmaking by the design, production and/or use of a module for a car (or other vehicle).
- 5. Mass-customizing a new car (or other vehicle) by customizing the car for each buyer but selling the car at a mass production price.
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