Interview Video Carver

• From the perspective of technology and as an electric vehicle manufacturer, what makes
an electric vehicle better than a fossil fuel powered vehicle?

Very good question I think in the future we should all drive electric and the main reason is
that we got a big CO2 problem. We take oil out of the ground burn it and that will definitely
take us back to the dinosaurs age where we got too much CO2 in the air. So if you want to
save the world we have to drive electric because with electric you can use any source of
energy. You can use water energy, power energy, you can use of windmills, you can use solar
panels and we even can everything.

• Reasons to buy an EV?

Now I mean electric is the future. It's not that we have to go a step down it's a step up the
driving behaviour. You get a lot of torque so it's very comfortable to drive you don't have to
shift it's very compact, so it's the way for the future.

• Decision to make carver a fully electric vehicle rather than a plug-in hybrid?

The basic idea with this car concept is that we wanted to make a city vehicle which, what price
concern is between a scooter and a car. So... And because, it's very aero-dynamical so we need
not as much energy to propel it. So, with a quite small battery pack we can already achieve
two and a half hours of driving with this vehicle. And that's for one day more than enough for
the use.

• Which parts of the electric car has huge potential for improvement, both technology wise
and cost wise?

Of course the batteries, I mean, for the electric vehicle, the battery is the most expensive part
of a vehicle and to make it for large volumes you need to bring the price down as much as
possible. So, that's why I think that electric vehicles should be very light, it should be very
aero-dynamical because yes, battery is the most expensive part of the vehicle.

• Compared to a conventional car, which parts of an electric car are maintenance-free

and which parts still require maintenance?

Well yes - almost everything is maintenance free apart from the brakes... Okay we break with
regen so we use less brake pads wear but eventually the brakes will wear down. And second
the tyres they wear down as quick as normal so it's brakes and tyres. And all the other things,
are almost are maintenance free.

• With increasing availability of charging infrastructure, is a long range EV with a big battery
needed?

Well you see more and more quick charging to be honest for normal vehicle, this is a city
vehicle it's low-speed but for normal high-speed – vehicles - depends on how fast you can
charge.

• Would we see the AC onboard charger of EVs being completely moved out, like what we
see in laptops?

Well, to be flexible I think you both need the DC fast charger and AC slow charger,

for instance at my house there is no charging station so I have to do with AC charging.

• Technical advantages and disadvantages of a Carver compared to a conventional family

electric car and compared to other two seater electric vehicles?

Yes, well, it's the way around main reason why we see a lot of four-wheelers and wide four-
wheeler is they don’t use this tilting technology. With the Carver we have the possibility to
make a very narrow vehicle. If you normally would make a four-wheel not tilting vehicle and
if you take corner too fast you will flip over to the outside. Because of this invention which we
use in the Carver which is fully automatic tilting system it tilts like a motor bike, it drives like
a car and that makes a very stable concept even when you make a corner fast and that's why
we can make a vehicle less than one meter.

• Technical advantages and disadvantages of a Carver compared to a conventional family

electric car and compared to a conventional family electric car and compared to other two
seater electric vehicles

I’ll start with advantages. Personally, my biggest advantage is that so much fun to drive but
that was not the reason why we developed it. We developed it because we want to have an
aero-dynamical footprint of one person wide. We specifically developed this vehicle for one
or two persons but they are sitting behind each other so there's a very less aero-dynamical
drag.
But then I come to the disadvantage: if you are with four persons, you should take a normal
car which is suitable for four persons if you drive alone or with two, you should take this type
of vehicle…but if you want to...yes.

• Range anxiety in Carver users. Target customer base and reasons to pick Carver over
competitors

Yes and no, but I just already explained, it's is a city vehicle which has top speed just below 50
kilometres an hour so if you take a Carver, you already take... something which is in reach,
you can drive two hours with a car and that's a long time. So, you will not take a Carver if you
want to go from here to Amsterdam but you can take it, you’ll take a Carver if you go from
here to Rotterdam them so yes and no. It depends on to which kind of vehicle you compare it
with. If you are four persons, you have one family you got a budget of only buying one vehicle
and then people will buy four persons vehicle. Specifically our target to people who are living
alone or two or to be more flexible. We see that a lot of people already have got a car, and
for holidays and for long distances and for the city they use the Carver.

• Design and safety?

Yes, no, it's not a car, it’s not a motorbike. The safety, we've got a very safe rollover cage and
which protects the person's -...giving the maximum protection, you don't need to have... wear
a helmet because all safety belts are tested. Again this is a 50 kilometers per hour vehicle
that's a different kind of standard as if you compare it with a Mercedes a high-speed 200
kilometres an hour vehicle so it's yes, you have to see the perspective.

• Selection of the motor in the carver and the reasoning

We use the wheel head motor which is inside the wheel and you can see this shaft bits which
is under the suspension and this can turn and the rim is directly mounted on the motor. And
we choose this kind of package because we wanted to place between the wheels our battery
pack, low center of gravity and then the wheel motors, so we've got two of these, one on the
left and one on the right.