Hello and welcome to Uniti Update
episode 14! It's been a while and that's
because we've been working really hard
and creating material for this
crowdfunding campaign we launched a
couple of weeks back. So initially, we
were going with Seedrs, but we actually
ended up launching the campaign on our
very own website. And this was to be able
to create a better community of our own
and being able to cater the campaign
towards them and we also wanted to give
everybody the opportunity to pre-order
the car so that we can smoothly
transition into the retail phase of our
product. We also wanted to invite all the
people that wanted to come to our
headquarters by having an Open House
here, and on the day of the launch we had
the YouTube masthead for Norway and Sweden.
So it's been a really intense process
and a lot of fun and we want to share
that with you of course. So let's check
it out!
And I'm looking forward to buy a car soon.
The steering seems amazing!
I kinda feel like I'm driving a spaceship.
Very easy to use. Very intuitive.
Seems like a part of the future in a way.
They've done a great job with the lane
recognition and the lane assistant seems
pretty nice. I'll wait until the product goes live.
The weight of the car is
fantastic!
I've actually tested the virtual reality
stuff yeah and I thought that was cool.
Very good looking and it's cool inside.
I like the size of the car.
Rather convenient to have a small car nowadays, when it's so many people and so many cars in the city.
It's sweet!
It's very technologically advanced. It is a
new innovation. It has an aspect of
sustainability environments. It makes a
lot of sense.
Just keep doing what you're doing. Save the planet!
So this is the day before campaign launch
We did book the YouTube masthead tomorrow. Yes, the whole YouTube masthead.
Our whole campaign goes live in three
hours and 40 minutes. What are you doing, Albin?
We just uploaded the campaign video.
Oh you're filming! I was
just gonna run over to Albin and ask him
for the thumbnail. We're creating the
press images for tomorrow morning. Doing the subtitles for our crowdfunding video
which is finally up on Youtube. That's going well. I've been working all night on the website and
uploading the videos... We 're 45 minutes from the masthead on YouTube. So we went live with the
crowdfunding campaign today.
Uuuh, I recognise that car...
Six days ago we didn't know we're gonna have a crowdfunding campaign
on our own site. Six days later we have a crowdfunding campaign on
our site. So, we're pretty efficient. First
day of our crowdfunding campaign. Let's see
what the team is up to.
Sending out press releases, yep.
Recruiting new staff because because we're growing so quickly. Responding to everyone that is commenting.
Working on press releases.
So as off today, two weeks after the campaign
launched we have around 1 million euros in
investments and almost nine hundred
pre-orders of the car and we'll keep the
campaign running for a few more weeks so
be sure to check it out. And if you
haven't already, do check out our
campaign video. Me and Isaak spent a lot
of time and late nights on creating that
and... and... and... and parallel to all this
work with the campaign, we have also been
working really hard to finish Uniti's
first complete evaluation prototype of
the car, the EP1. First of all, the CAD
models have been completed. This has been
done together with world leading
engineering firm ÅF, a Swedish
consultancy firm. (Talking Swedish...)
So we're discussing the packaging of
everything behind the dashboard
basically. So you have the heads-up
display you have the drive-by-wire system
and all the other small bits that needs
to fit in here.
Some of the parts like the bulkheads
which cover the wheel, the curved windows
which is the glass canopy that covers
the car, and the exterior panels have
been manufactured after our drawing by
several external manufacturers in Sweden
and Denmark for the final prototype.
And this is to ensure premium quality and to save time on our side. So when we receive
these parts we need to make sure that
they look exactly like they do in the
computer when we designed them. And to be able to analyze this we have installed a
hexagon laser scanner and this machine
can scan the measurements of the parts
down to as low as 20 microns, and that's
zero point zero zero zero zero two meters.
So it's pretty exact in other
words. And once we've ensured the quality
of these parts, we can move on to start
putting these parts together and working
with the surfaces. So one interesting
option for paint that we found that we
might use for the prototype is use vinyl
sheets instead of liquid paint. This is
more effective as well as more
sustainable compared to a normal
automotive paint finish. This also means you
can easily change the color of the car
repair scratches and recycle the panels
at the end of the product's lifecycle.
And alongside the exterior of the car we
have now made a final mock-up of the
interior as well. We've also been
prototyping these interiors in
polystyrene.
We can be seen them out quickly and see
them in full-scale.
So we put together a quick test part for
the door so the design team can see what
door might look like. So this is just test
pieces of the interior panel of the door.
So these panels have been covered in
different materials to work out what
would be the best for our prototype and
for our production. So we make sure that
we have a premium feel in the interior
of the car as well as creating something
new and different and it's just such an
awesome feeling to see all these parts
coming together and for the first time
get a real feeling for how the car would
look like. And we will have a big event
here soon in the south of Sweden when we
show the prototype to the public. And
we're looking at different venues that
will fit our vision of this event
because we want to make it really
special and different.So we're looking at
arenas and design hotels and we're
looking for what fits the event that we
want to create. And I can assure you that
no matter where we'll have it, it's gonna
be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So be
sure not to miss it and we'll keep you
updated! And that was all for this time.
Remember to check out the crowdfunding
campaign and see you next time! Have an
awesome day!
