It's a Dannar Moble Power Station. And it's sort of like a transformer. You should go to their site to see all the things that this thing can be configured into. You can take off the climate controlled cab and operate it via a controller. You can make it into a forklift. It's compatable with 250 different CAT, Bobcat and John Deere attachments. So you can stick a bucket on the front. Their site also has videos.
And it's a power station. Now how much would be pay? Sorry, I love infomercials and I got a little carried away. You can also apparently submerse it in water up until a certain point.
Behind these panels is where you plug in all your stuff. Plus it has USB ports.
Some of the back area has space for storage.
As you can see it really can be operated by a controller. This machine went 27 miles an hour, but they had a limiter on it at 23 miles per hour. And they were letting anyone who wanted to drive it around the parking lot. Now the is how you sell machines.
List price was 205,000. That comes with 3 BMW batteries.
This guy was getting instructions on the controller.
This is him walking it around the parking lot.
On the front and back there are cameras.
I know this place where they'd be able to sell quite a few of these for vital services ... if they didn't cost the equivalent of $550k in Eastern Caribbean dollars plus whatever it takes to ship them there.
ReplyDeleteWhen the manufacturer can figure out how to knock down the price on this bad boy, then this will take off.
However, if it can kick out 120/240VAC dual-phase and 480VAC tri-phase at an adjustable frequency standard, that'll be what actually commands the higher price. That would be awesome in Japan during heavy weather and disasters if it could do that.
Japan has two incompatible electrical grids, and so you can't actually take appliance from the northern islands into the southern islands unless they're universal voltage. That's why so much stuff from Japan comes with 100-240VAC universal wall bricks.
So as pricey as this seems to me, if they've got adjustable voltage, current, and frequency standards built in, they'll sell quite a few of these to local governments.
I can also imagine certain resort hotel chains buying a few of these so their guests in Tropical Hurricane Paradise have some basic electrical necessities that still work after a big storm ...
But if I were them, I wouldn't buy the expensive prototype though.
Well - it's gen 1. So that's always going to be the most expensive. Though I'm not sure how much the price will come down due to the batteries. Batteries don't really get much cheaper.
ReplyDeleteBut generally I'd think governments will be the first to buy these. They said they imagined that cities would use them to clean up the homeless encampments. Which suprsised me, but the workers do have to get all hasmatted out. And hazardous pay does add up.