Topic: SOLVED: Djetset 721 - Plug & Move Re-Volt concept

[Djetset]

once again, is it a book publisher?

No

[oko94]

Let's sum it up as I have a hard time trying to connect the dots :
- This company currently provides products and services.
- This company is indirectly involved with electricity.
- This company's activity is indirectly related to the transportation of persons.
- This company is indirectly connected with OEM suppliers.
- This company is indirectly in the supply chain sector.

Does this company provide some kind of industrial robots, tools or machines used in suppliers' factories ?
 

[Djetset]

Let's sum it up as I have a hard time trying to connect the dots :
- This company currently provides products and services.
- This company is indirectly involved with electricity.
- This company's activity is indirectly related to the transportation of persons.
- This company is indirectly connected with OEM suppliers.
- This company is indirectly in the supply chain sector.

Does this company provide some kind of industrial robots, tools or machines used in suppliers' factories ?

Thanks Oka, a good summary of where we are so far.

The company doesn't provide machine tool services, etc.

[oko94]

Does this company provide communication devices or services, data centers or cloud computing for the supply chain industry ?

[Djetset]

Does this company provide communication devices or services, data centers or cloud computing for the supply chain industry ?

Sorry, but none of these.

[pnegyesi]

is this a real manufacturing company as opposed to say, a cluster?

[Djetset]

is this a real manufacturing company as opposed to say, a cluster?

Thus company exists, but it is not building vehicles as yet.

[pnegyesi]

was this company set up by various other companies involved in the automobile industry?

[Djetset]

was this company set up by various other companies involved in the automobile industry?

No, not AFAIK.

[pnegyesi]

was this company set up prior to 2010?

[Djetset]

was this company set up prior to 2010?

Sorry but I don't know the answer to that one, although I suspect they were founded after 2010.

[pnegyesi]

was this company set up by the government?

[Djetset]

was this company set up by the government?

No.

[pnegyesi]

does this company produces raw materials?

[Djetset]

does this company produces raw materials?

No.

[pnegyesi]

does this company produce tangible things?

[Djetset]

does this company produce tangible things?

Yes.

[pnegyesi]

is the material of these tangible things relevant?

[Djetset]

is the material of these tangible things relevant?

Yes, relevant to the car 

[4popoid]

Is the company in question Schneider Electric?

[oko94]

This was an illustration on Plug & Move's website

[oko94]

Plug & Move was a website and a smartphone app developed by EDF, Europcar, AXA, Navteq and Schneider. Their aim was to help electric car users by providing them useful information and advice. Website and app were launched in 2012 and are down now.

The puzzle car never actually existed and never will, it was just a CGI illustration. Here is another illustration used by Plug & Move (most probably a photoshopped Renault Zoe).

[Djetset]

This was an illustration on Plug & Move's website

Well done Oko94, your persistence final paid off, so another point to you.  Thank you for the additional information too, although I do dispute the claim that there was no production plan for the Re-Volt, as this is not the case.  I spoke to Plug & Move some time back at the Paris Salon, and they had a serious proposal in place to build the Re-Volt, which has since been revised to a later, more up to date model.   

[oko94]

I do dispute the claim that there was no production plan for the Re-Volt, as this is not the case.  I spoke to Plug & Move some time back at the Paris Salon, and they had a serious proposal in place to build the Re-Volt, which has since been revised to a later, more up to date model.

Interesting. I have read the official Plug & Move press release and the press articles that have been issued in 2012 when the service was launched, and there was not a word about the production of an electric car. "Re-Volt!" was not the name of a car, but the slogan of the service.

In 2013, one of the questions of the "Plug & Move Road Tour 2013" contest was :

"What is Plug & Move?

1 - A website specializing in the rental of electric vehicle
2 - A community platform dedicated to electric mobility
3 - The name of a new electric car"

The correct answer was n°2.

I'm not questioning what you've been told, but maybe the initial plan for Plug & Move was to launch both a service and a car, and then it got scaled back when they realized it was over-ambitious, as none of the companies involved in Plug & Move had experience in car making ? And now that Plug & Move has been closed, I'm afraid we won't hear from them anytime soon.

Thanks for the point, by the way 

[Djetset]

Thanks for the further update Oko.  As you say, this start-up company had ambitious plans that realistically it was always going to struggle to achieve, but the employee I spoke to was very insistent that they would build this car one day.  Sadly their closure means that we will never really know how far they progressed with their plans.