Mark graduated from UC Berkeley in 1996 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After 11 years in the computer games industry and the sale of his first startup, GarageGames, Mark has turned his entrepreneurial energy towards sustainable transportation. His current endeavor, Arcimoto, founded in 2007, is building an ultra-efficient electric vehicle to more cleanly satisfy everyday transportation needs. Mark currently serves on the Oregon Transportation Commission. Mark discusses in broad strokes the history of automotive transportation, the iterative development of Arcimoto’s SRK, and a tour of convergent future technologies that will enable a sustainable transportation system. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
FANTASTIC! Mark would it be helpful for you to have lunch with David Berdish @ Ford? Could be an AMAZING FRIENDSHIP?PARTNERSHIP THINK of the POSSIBILITIES!!! PLEASE!
Humans are changing, that’s when Mark was saying on the video (the car’s “let’s just be friends” comic). However, we also need products that can embrace that change. That’s been missing as he himself was looking for months for a gadget (not-bike, not-car) that wasn’t there, in 2007. Technical change and mindset change go hand in hand.
Actually… there might be. Your concern is valid, but for such a light vehicle the energy efficiency is so great that it most likely outshines this concern. However, there is imho no sense in making heavy vehicles run on electricity (maybe apart from hybrid buses).
Thanks, Mark. A nice wrap-up of all the technologies racing ahead at the moment. A balanced performance, thx for mentioning Google, PRT, biking, trams. It’s about finding a good, new optimal mix of all of these. We’re working to get the PRT front up to your expectations (= cheap).
Thanks I knew I was just being silly couldn’t get it straight in my head
Nathan Fillion brought me here. Very cool stuff but if this happens I’ll have to find another job. I’m a cabbie :/
where did the electric come from that powers the cars? there is no point having an electric car if it is powered by a fossil fuel power plant
Nathan Fillions link xD
nathan fillion told me to watch this =)
nathan fillion told me to watch this =)
Sounds like a great idea. However, if owning a car represents freedom, how will this idea maintain the sense of freedom? Computers were sold as a green solution to disappearing forests. However, as computers became more popular, paper usage went up. People like control and tangibility. If this idea is to succeed, you have to focus on changing humans.
take a nap on your way to work =)
I love riding my bike and all, but the problem with it being used as a mode of transportation opposed to a form of exercise/recreation besides its lack of utility is that it takes an hour to go 25 miles and then there’s the part where you have to go back home. I can do it several times a week, but damn if it doesn’t kill me a little each time.
yay! my comment is the top comment! very first time!
You have heard of ’rounding’ right? E.g. 10.4% + 20.4% + 69.2% adds up to 100%. But if you round them to 1 decimal place in a pie chart it becomes 10%, 20% and 69% which adds up to 99%.
Our next sustainable source: Magnetism. Line the roads with magnets and make the bottom of our cars magnets so that when the positive magnet lined car comes incontact with the positive lined road they push apart andthe car will float.My idea is not entirely fleshed out still has many flaws I realize.
Captain Mal sent me here
I love soup!
where’s the flying one?
I can’t wait for them arrive in Italy too!!!!
Is it just me or does the pie chart not add up at the beginning?
Nathan Fillion sent me here.
the stud who said “every writer needs inspiration and I’ve found mine” brought me here
Love.
nathan fillion brouth me here
Nicely done. Love the vision.