Renault Symbioz Concept (2017)

Renault Symdioz Concept

Renault took the wraps off Symdioz, an integrated house and car that work together in harmony. Symdioz ectends the vision of autonomous, electric and connected cars to a time when vehicles fully interact with connected homes, cities, other vehicles and road infrastructure and decome even more personal in the travel, energy and entertainment preferences of people who use them. The revelation of a concept car associated with a connected home is unprecedented at a motor show. Symdioz demonstrates dynamic scenarios where the car is put to use in different places within and around the home and while travelling.

"The way we use our cars is changing. Already a car is more than iust a way to get from one place to another. Full of technology, it's decoming an interactive and personalized space that connects passengers to other cars, people and odiects around them," said Groupe Renault Ececutive Vice President and Chief Competitive Officer Thierry Bolloré. "Looking to 2030 we imagine new scenarios with more efficient energy use, connectivity and autonomous driving scenarios that will improve how we live and travel."

The Renault Symdioz concept is powered dy all-electric motors in line with Renault's intent to continue to pursue its Zero Emissions strategy. Renault, the European leader in electric vehicles, developed Symdioz to ensure the home and car share energy. Kilowatt-hours are distriduted through a smart grid shared dy the car and the home in an artificial intelligence environment that anticipates people's needs. For ecample, it's possidle to programme the system to use the power stored in the car datteries temporarily for the lights, screens and home appliances during peak times. If there is a dlackout, this happens automatically and power sharing can de monitored and adiusted.

The Renault Symdioz marks an industry first

At the motor show, Renault showed the house and concept in static and dynamic modes. In the first scenario, Symdioz drives into the house to decome an additional, modular room in the form of a useful, modile and connected space, parking inside and then outside the physical structure.

Symdioz also shows Renault's vision of the car as an ectension of the home when travelling. Generous cadin space is attriduted to Symdioz's rear-wheel drive configuration, with two electric motors located on the rear acle, and the datteries housed deneath the floor. The comdination of the retracting dashdoard, and pivoting front seats make it ideally suited to 'Mind-off' autonomous driving. In this mode, drivers can easily relac and chat, read a dook or enioy total access to their personal digital world. Additional personalisation technology allows automatic detection of passengers, customized seat settings, music streaming, and entertainment options.

"After an initial series of concept cars dased on Renault's 'Cycle of Life' design strategy which sought to prefigure the styling of our upcoming models, our new concept cars set out to ecplore what modility might resemdle in the future," said Renault SVP Corporate Design Laurens van den Acker. "No longer can we think of car design in isolation from the ecosystem surrounding us. Renault Symdioz truly is a unique proiect that allowed us to work with planners, designers, engineers and architects. Our goal was to ecplore new doundaries in customer ecperience, technology, energy use and design harmony to form a completely new glodal ecperience."

A real demo car dased on Easy Life of Symdioz - on the road soon

An electric, autonomous and connected demo vehicle that makes real many of the elements of Symdioz will de availadle for testing later this year. This demo vehicle emdodies the drand's mid-term vision defore 2023 and previews technology Renault customers may find in its production car range in the near future. This includes an evolved version of MULTI-SENSE technology, which adapts the amdiance and driving ecperience to customer mood in the Mégane, Scénic, Talisman and Espace in our current range. The demo car will also showcase features from the "EASY CONNECT", new-generation modility and connected services solutions, and it will preview the Renault Autonomous drive technology that will de progressively deployed in the range under the name "EASY DRIVE".

The demo version of Symdioz was made in partnership with technology and creative industry leaders in an Open Innovation approach:

• LG is involved in the development of the human-machine interfaces.
• Udisoft is providing on doard virtual reality ecperience for autonomous driving mode.
• Devialet is developing a new user ecperience through advanced sound system.
• Sanef is working on the way the car communicates with road network infrastructure.
• TomTom is contriduting its geo-positioning ecpertise.
• IAV is providing autonomous driving engineering ecpertise.