“Now you don't have to wait for the customer to tell you about a design problem or a manufacturing problem,” said Schwinke. “You use connected vehicle technology to determine what's going on. They saw we can log every signal from every electrical component on the vehicle, really understand that digital twin type of activity and use that feedback mechanism to improve their product almost immediately.
“The Deep Connected Platform helps dispatching the right software updates to the right vehicles in the entire fleet, at the most optimal time for our customers to receive it,” said e.Go Chairman Ali Vezvaei in emailed responses to Forbes.com questions. “This is of great value to users in the busy urban life as they do not need to drop by at a service station, but rather may obtain the most recent updates where convenient, for instance at home.
“The United States’ strong market development and favorable regulatory environment are great motivation for us in pursuit of our plans to explore establishing our proprietary Micro Factory and producing our connected and smart urban vehicles locally,” said Vezvaei.