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When I started working in the 3D industry around 8 years ago, there were two widely used 3D model transferring routes, OBJ and FBX. This left two options – rebuilding assets if transferred between software or biting the bullet and leaving all designers to learn the same software. Today, there are more options and ways to seamlessly transfer and create high-quality graphics.

glTF, the Jpeg for 3D

A new file format is paving the way for software application file transfers. glTF, Graphics Language Transmission Format, is an open, royalty-free 3D Data Format with top-level elements like animation data, textures, materials, and object hierarchy, to name a few.

Easy to incorporate external 3D designs without retouching and modifying and memory efficient. This makes it a great candidate for web and cases of limited resources. glTF 2.0 now also supports modern physically-based rendering materials, compatible with all rendering APIs. The list of software supporting glTF is growing with some services even built around it, like Sketchfab.

The 3D artist’s bread and butter

PBR uses a physical understanding of light transport to define lighting rules for 3D-based images in the shading and rendering process. Visualizing material properties like roughness and metalness to create highly realistic 3D models.

The extension of PBR materials in Incari Studio offers even more customization. You can use texture for more granular control over spots of roughness. Think of black as 0% and white as 100%.

With the help of multiple textures, like color, roughness, and ambient occlusion, you create a PBR material. All textures are automatically mapped correctly in Incari with a dedicate PBR Shader. Creating higher visual fidelity and reducing manual work. Here is an example of an interactive render made with Incari Studio.

“With the newly introduced features, Incari Studio users will be able to import state-of-the-art 3D models, place and animate them with ease in the scene, then enrich them with interactivity via logic and finally create a reusable and customizable prefab that can be shared with other team member and across projects,” says Abdallah Huballah, CTO of Incari. “With Incari Studio 2022.1 users can focus more on their work and their creativity and less on the tool and the technology.“

Here is an overview of what’s new in Incari Studio 2022.1.

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The biggest improvement: Prefabs

Prefabs enable the user to create multiple individual instances of a combination of objects, and then make changes that are enacted across all instances. This allows one to easily create several objects with the same functionality that retain unique properties via overrides. Moreover, Prefabs have their logic encapsulated within them. Any alterations in the Prefab properties or its logic affect all of its instances.

This makes it significantly easier for users to build increasingly complex applications without repetitive logic or inconsistent components. In most projects, many objects (such as buttons, list items, toggles and more) are designed with small alterations from a base component. Prefabs bring the same functionality to Incari Studio – enabling you to carry over base logic and design between components with a single click. Packing all of the assets and logic into a single exportable object, Prefabs are significantly easier to share, import and export, allowing for a better collaborative workflow and enabling users and teams to build a consistent component library. In a real-world use case, having built Prefabs for buttons, sliders and a slider bar, it would take the user only a few clicks to build a multi-page HMI system from scratch.

Local / Global transformations for more freedom

In previous versions of Incari Studio, object transformations could only be made in global space – that is, with respect to a global origin. This new release adds a new mode for transformations: local. With local transformations, it is possible to rotate and translate objects with respect to their local origin.

As projects get more complex, it is difficult and unintuitive to modify transformations within the project scopes. The introduction of the local transformation mode gives the user more control for rotating and translating objects. Now, building a sliding carousel menu can be done with simple offsets from the parent container or a gauge with multiple moving sprites can be easily transformed with local transformations on the appropriate axis. Working with local transformations enables you to compartmentalize and expand the scope of your projects without the need for redundant calculations or modifications.

Plugins for more control over resources

This release introduces Plugins, which allow activating or deactivating modules of Incari Studio as per the needs of the user, meaning that you only include the functionality you need – optimizing hardware resources and reducing visual clutter in the Toolbox and building the foundation for a self-scalable structure.

Incari Studio is designed to be the go-to tool for building functional systems wherever humans and machines interact. As we expand our feature base to cater to a wider range of requirements, we believe it is important to give the user the freedom to build their own Incari Studio by making it as comprehensive as they need it to be. That’s why, with this new feature you can disable a communication module you don’t need or add a whole new Plugin for your needs, for example.

glTF support for efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models

Incari Studio also now supports importing and rendering glTF files. glTF is a file format for efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models – often called the “JPEG of 3D”. It packages all features into one file, such as geometry, textures, and shaders. The preferred version in Incari Studio is glTF 2.0.

This new file type makes it easier to incorporate external 3D designs that are ready to use without retouching them. Acknowledging the increasing use of glTF models in user-facing software applications, Incari Studio now enables you to natively interact with them. Since glTF models have their shading, masks and such already baked in, this makes it super easy to use pre-built models from various resources without making any other modifications.

New extended PBR material for realistic appearance of 3D models

The new extended Physically-Based Rendering of Materials (PBR) offers more customization options than in previous versions, ensuring that Incari Studio is in line with the conventional standards of other real-time rendering engines. Incari Studio now implements the metallic-roughness PBR workflow by allowing users to use maps for these material slots as well as ambient occlusion. This means that 3D objects have more visual fidelity with less strain on resources.

Using PBR, you can now work on improved and more realistic materials, simulating the reaction of objects to the flow of light in the actual world. Using this powerful feature, users can shade their models and render them using standards they are accustomed to without ever leaving Incari Studio.

Monaco/Berlin (15.6.2022)

The MC-one prototype, a one-seater electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL), has been presented by MC CLIC at the Top Marques Monaco show. It is the first project to arise from the UI development cooperation between Berlin software company Incari, French prototype development company L2concept and Factory Unit.

“The interface design of the MC-one paves the way for the future of the industry,” says Osman Dumbuya, Founder and CEO of Incari. “Our collaboration is pioneering the way human-machine interaction will be experienced in the future. With Incari technology we push the limits on what is already possible today in UI design for all vehicle types from cars to eVTOLs.”

Incari technology enables a revolutionary fully customizable interface

Developed with Incaris software platform Incari Studio, the proof of concept for the future of urban mobility offers a user interface (UI) as it has existed so far only in Hollywood productions. The team created a dynamic onboard display that leverages onboard sensors and peripherals as well as real time information to the passenger. During the flight, the UI leverages augmented reality to deliver an overlay of graphics and 3D assets including different camera views. Additionally, the UI is dynamic and interacts directly with the hardware through the standard NavLink communication protocol coded by MC CLIC experts.

Incari’s UI solution offers a system of interfaces connected in motion with a mix of graphic media content and no-code logic. Offering more than just a few motion graphics on a screen, it pushes beyond common interface standards. The display of the MC-one is a fully customizable interface activated by a unique NFT, which owners receive when they purchase the eVTOL. The NFT also functions as the key to initiate the onboard system and to register the passengers certified journey plan.

The autonomous eVTOL combines next generation UI with machine learning

The MC-one is a proof of concept for the future of urban mobility. It can carry up to 400 kilograms, flies autonomously, and enables anyone to move from point A to B without worrying about infrastructure or traffic. For now, the MC-one is intended solely for private environments but offers a fully accessible solution for early-adopters and pioneers who want to experience the future today. The MC-one is available for pre-order now at a cost ranging from 140.000 Euro to 180.00 Euro without specific requests on the design. The delivery will start in Q2 2023.

“The MC-one prototype combines a next generation UI with machine learning processes. We believe it is the first concept of its type,” says David Carvalho, Managing Director at L2concept. “This proof of concept is not only a step towards the future, but a revolutionary leap to bring back creativity in UI practices.”

The MC-one celebrated its premiere at the MC CLIC boot at the 17th edition of Top Marques Monaco, one of the world’s most exclusive shows for supercars, motorbikes, aerial vehicles as well as superboats and waterboats. The show takes place on the Esplanade of the Grimaldi Forum under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

About Incari

Incari was founded in April 2021 by Osman Dumbuya and Alexander Grasse, having evolved from the predecessor company CGI Studio GmbH. The company is based in Berlin and has offices in France and Poland. About 50 people work for Incari.

About L2concept

L2concept is a Transportation Design and mobility experience prototype company founded by Alain Grandjean in 2011 and joined by former Pininfarina SVP Design David Carvalho last year. The offices are located in Los Angeles and the French Riviera in Antibes, near Nice, and benefit from its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park, an ecosystem that curates the most advanced AI-based technologies and solutions in Europe. L2concept helps you communicate excitement and interest by involving human factors at the core of your product development strategy: Test Early, Fail Often and Succeed Faster.

About MC CLIC

MC CLIC is a company based in Monaco that, for more than 10 years, has created all kinds of sophisticated land, air and submarine drones. They have strong expertise on developing systems capable of carrying out heavy-duty work for specific applications. The MC-one is the result of consolidated advanced knowledge in this field and of Erwan Grimaud’s recognized experience as a professional advanced drone pilot.

June, 6, 2022.

Incari has formed a partnership with the renowned prototype development company L2concept. In the future, Incari technology will be used to develop trailblazing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for the French company’s visionary show cars.

“Digital technologies have changed the automotive industry. Today’s visionary show cars also need innovative interior interfaces to make the future tangible,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari. “With our technology, new ideas can be implemented in record time, enabling our partner L2concept to set new standards in the industry as early as the prototype stage.”

Fewer personnel, faster and more flexible HMI development process

The development process breaks with the established methods of traditional manufacturers, with designers and software developers no longer working sequentially on a new vehicle. Instead, they collaborate from the very beginning in a shared software environment. This approach helps them to subsequently avoid time-consuming and cost-intensive modifications that may result during the process. Using conventional development methods, changing the design of just one element often takes up to 14 days and generates costs in the five-figures. With Incari Studio, changes can be made in a matter of minutes.

Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach, offering entirely new possibilities in usability – especially in combination with augmented reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). The Incari method promises a reduction in HMI development times of up to 50 percent, with lower personnel requirements and higher quality. The Berlin-based company was already involved in the UX development of the Piëch GT.

L2concept designs the in-car experience of the future with Incari

The L2concept team now trusts Incari Studio. The company, based in Antibes, France, as well as in California (USA), has already worked in the automotive sector with brands such as Lexus, Mercedes, Renault, Venturi and Toyota. However, L2concept also develops submarine and boat prototypes and designs medical devices, electrical appliances, furniture and new forms of mobility – for example eVTOLs (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft). The prototypes are manufactured by Factory Unit, part of the group and within the same space.

“The partnership with Incari enables us to visualize the future in a new way. With the know-how in AI and machine learning technologies coming from the local ecosystem in Sophia Antipolis, we have the ambition to transform the visionary ideas of our customers into a working proof of concept that is ready to learn and operate services. With Incari’s technology, we become pioneers of the next mobility experience that is enabled by data and connectivity from the prototype stage. This enables us to holistically redesign the interaction between human and machine in the exterior as well as in the interior,” says David Carvalho, Managing Director at L2concept.

About Incari

Incari was founded in April 2021 by Osman Dumbuya and Alexander Grasse, having evolved from the predecessor company CGI Studio GmbH. The company is based in Berlin and has offices in France and Poland. About 50 people work for Incari.

About L2concept

L2concept is a Transportation Design and mobility experience prototype company founded by Alain Grandjean in 2011 and joined by former Pininfarina SVP Design David Carvalho last year.  The offices are located in Los Angeles and the French Riviera in Antibes, near Nice, and benefit from its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park, an ecosystem that curates the most advanced AI-based technologies and solutions in Europe. L2concept helps you communicate excitement and interest by involving human factors at the core of your product development strategy: Test Early, Fail Often and Succeed Faster.

Our vision as Incari is an European operating system that does not only embodies the current zeitgeist of its own digital decade but also secures competitiveness in Europe as a business location.

Who owns the digital world? In the perception of many, probably those who can shape it with their power. And in the digital world, that is neither the sovereign nor the state. Rather, it is the platforms of international technology corporations such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Alibaba. “This results in problems relevant to democracy — both in terms of visibility determined by algorithms and in terms of the identity-forming function of the community,” explains our CEO Osman Dumbuya.

The path to a technologically sovereign society

We at Incari are working on our own European operating system and want to create a sustainable alternative to Windows, iOS, Android, and Asian platform models. This is also the direction we’re taking at Scale-Up Europe, the European innovation initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron.

The basis for this is a completely new digital ecosystem that conserves resources and is based on five pillars: an application development platform, a digital marketplace, proprietary hardware devices, computer components, and the Incari OS, a European operating system.

With a European operating system, we are moving technological sovereignty from the enterprise to the individual level. We are ending the one-sided dependence on current offerings and their technical linkages. We’re betting on a restart that unleashes the full potential hidden in an operating system.

European Data Security Shelter

A European operating system creates a protective space for data security, data authenticity, and the property rights of users, thus defying the seemingly overpowering logic of the market.

Incari OS is a completely new development and works particularly fast, energy-efficient, and can be operated visually-intuitively. We are advocating the empowerment of citizens in Europe and giving them nothing less than the opportunity to finally take responsibility for their data.

Civey survey shows desire for Europe’s digital decade

A recent representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Civey in April 2022 shows that that we are striking a chord with the German population with this idea: More than 70 percent of respondents would prefer a European operating system over American or Chinese providers.

The results reveal users’ deep mistrust of the business practices of Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba. Around 68 percent of respondents stated that they would use a European alternative based on values such as freedom and legal certainty. The same (or better) functionality, data security, and data sovereignty are the decisive arguments for changing the operating system.

“Only if we as a society become self-determined in our digital actions, i.e. technologically sovereign, can we secure Europe’s economic future and our prosperity in a globalized networked world in the face of aging digital infrastructures and an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape,” says Osman Dumbuya. At Incari, we want to contribute to this.

Plea for a technologically sovereign Europe

For Europe Day 2022, we as Incari are now publishing a first impetus: an ‘Appeal for a technologically sovereign Europe’. With this whitepaper, we explain why technological sovereignty is a crucial milestone for Europe. The digital paper also shows what obstacles lie ahead on the path to a technologically sovereign society and what needs to be done and thought about — politically and economically — to resolve them.

Read our latest whitepaper now:

English >> An appeal for a technologically sovereign Europe.
German >> Plädoyer für ein technologisch souveränes Europa.

The world is evolving into an environment where people and machines interact constantly. Real and digital realms are merging. Incari provides solutions that enable visualizations and interactions in this reality characterized by multiscreen and 3D environments. Responsible and invisible. Filmmaker Michael de Vries has now visualized our vision so that everyone can get a feeling of what a future with Incari technology looks like.

Responsible for designing the UI in the video is Nik Hill, who has previously designed the animations and UI for movies like Avengers: Age of Ultron and Guardians of the Galaxy. He worked for Territory Studios before becoming the owner of his own company, 23rdC studios.
They created a video illustrating Incari’s approach: We want to build a digital infrastructure that gives everyone sovereignty over their personal data and conserves natural resources. An infrastructure that will make the development and use of technology as easy and fair as possible.
For this purpose, we are creating a completely new digital ecosystem with five pillars: an application development platform, an operating system, hardware, a marketplace, and computer components.

Our Application Development Platform

Our platform makes complex issues easy to master, helps to develop better HMIs, allows more freedom in design and is accessible without programming knowledge. It is to become the definitive software for HMI development worldwide. In the automotive and mobility sector i.e., for cars, boats, airplanes, or bicycles as well as in other industries, i.e., in medicine or for smart home solutions.

Incari OS

With Incari OS, we are developing a Linux-based, fully mature European operating system that shapes a dynamic skin, closely embedding the vital parts of any given application, hence delivering maximum performance, safety, and energy efficiency while requiring a minimum of space.
European values, rules and standards in the digital world provide us with a design framework and a global competitive advantage that we want to leverage.

Hardware by Incari

We are planning to build our own devices, such as tablets and cellphones, in addition to helping customers develop customized hardware. The devices will run on the Incari OS and fully realize all the possibilities of digital technologies.

Our Ecosystem: Micro-transactions & decentralized architecture

The technological requirements for security, privacy and scalability call for a new micropayment system for users, services and applications. Therefore, we are building a decentralized platform according to these principles, a new marketplace for new opportunities. There is no limit to the imagination of designers, developers and service providers to easily develop new services based on Incari, to access the knowledge and work of other developers, and to roll out offerings faster to the user’s immediate environment.

Retrofit cars is a market on the rise, with more and more collectors and car enthusiasts looking to renew the technology inside their classic cars and vintage models to increase comfort and satisfy today‘s legal and ecological requirements. While the retrofit market today is mostly focused on electrification only, Incari provides the possibility to easily integrate new technologies into older car models for a modern user experience. However, the partnership between Incari, the Strate School of Design Bangalore, and Design 1880 is not limited to cars. Any type of vehicle, for example boats, can be retrofitted with the latest HMI and drive technology with the expertise and technology of the three partners, without losing its flair.

Modern technology blending in with the style of the past

Incari has already gained experience in equipping vintage cars with state-of-the-art HMI interfaces. A legendary (D)eLorean has been updated with Incari technology in partnership with Wunderkind Invest. The specially developed electric drive components of the iconic e-Lorean are combined with a unique HMI developed by Incari.

In a joint effort with Design 1880, a Fiat 500 has been electrified. The classic Fiat 500 is equipped with a digital display and can be easily connected to the smartphone and a special app. It features a smartphone holder adapted to the latest technological standards such as induction charging and magnetic attachment. The smartphone can be installed easily and without cables with one hand while offering a style that makes you think it was developed in the same period as the car.

A circular digital screen replaces the analog speedometer, is connected to the smartphone, and continuously provides relevant information to accompany the driving experience. The screen makes it possible to check battery consumption, for example, and can also be customized. This takes the user experience to a new level while preserving the spirit of the iconic car.

Similar projects show: Incari reduces development times up to 70 percent

Incari offers a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface to design state-of-the-art human-machine interfaces. It enables users who lack programming skills to design complex interfaces in 3D, while at the same time generating a very clean programming code. Moreover, Incari provides a common software environment for developers and designers who are already in the prototyping phase. This brings flexibility and saves time.

The software also takes a 3D-first approach. This offers entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in conjunction with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in development times in the HMI area of up to 70 percent, as comparative projects have shown, with simultaneously lower personnel requirements and a higher-quality end-user experience.

About Strate School of Design Bangalore

The Strate School of Design Bangalore is among the best design schools in the world. With more than 29 years of experience in European design excellence, Strate has set up an international team to train talents locally in Bangalore. It was born in 1993 with a simple motto “to make the world simple, fair, beautiful” and reiterates this with its fundamentally humanist approach to design.

About Design 1880

Design1880 offers retrofit and customization solutions for classic cars, with a focus on the user experience. What is retrofitting? Converting a combustion engine vehicle into an electric one!
More information about the eLorean is available at www.e-lorean.com.
Attached photos: Matthias Mederer/ramp.pictures

What’s new?

Asset Database

The new Assets Database allows the user to easily access internal resources and reuse them. With this, it is possible to keep track of which Assets are being used and where in the Project.

Camera Input for Video Objects

Incari now allows to directly control cameras and virtual cameras. New Nodes for controlling the playback have been introduced. Thus, this allows controlling from Incari a rear-view camera and the video that is being obtained from it.

Masking

Now it is possible to use Vectors (or any other Sprite Object) as masks for Sprite Objects.

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Customized and intuitive interfaces – but not only in cars.

The Berlin-based software company Incari is working on new Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) that tap the potential of digital technologies in the aviation and shipping industries, in a move that will set new standards in cockpits and on ships’ bridges. As with the cooperation with Piëch Automotive in the development of the digital cockpit in the Piëch GT electric sports car, the Incari method promises an efficient and cost-effective approach towards visionary HMI interfaces in other industries as well.

“Incari can be used wherever human-machine interfaces are needed,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari. “The days when the mouse was the only interface for computers are over. Touchscreens, gesture control, and voice control are a reality today. But augmented reality, remote touch, and computer-brain interfaces are just beginning. At Incari, we are providing the technology needed to unlock the potential of new technologies across many industries.”

Incari Studio enables up to a 70 percent reduction in development time

Incari breaks with the traditional methods of HMI development. Designers and developers no longer work sequentially on new technologies. Instead, they work in parallel and together in a common software environment from the very beginning. Thanks to this approach, subsequent adjustments, which are often time-consuming and cost-intensive due to non-implementability that is only discovered later in the process, are completely eliminated.

Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach. This offers entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in conjunction with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in development times in the HMI area of up to 70 percent with simultaneously lower personnel requirements and a higher-quality end-user experience.

Development of complex 3D interfaces possible without programming knowledge

Incari Studio is a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface. It enables users who lack programming skills to design complex interfaces in 3D, while at the same time generating a very clean programming code. Moreover, Incari provides a common software environment for developers and designers who are already in the prototyping phase. This brings flexibility and saves time

“Using traditional development methods, changing the design of just a single element often takes up to 14 days and involves five-figure sums. With Incari, it can be done in minutes,” Dumbuya said.

While the ease of use of cars is changing rapidly, other industries are lagging behind in the digital transformation. Incari reduces the complexity of HMI development and enables the use of state-of-the-art technologies. Thanks to these, the control of aircraft and ships also becomes easier and safer. Other application areas include the virtual representation of three-dimensional construction plans on construction sites or in medicine, for example, with the remote control of a surgical robotic arm.

“In the future, screens and displays won’t be the only user interfaces; projected, on-the-fly, customized widgets will become a reality at Incari in the next few months – rather than in 2054 as depicted in the movie Minority Report,” Dumbuya says.

Incari has research and development collaborations with the Institute for Open Communication Systems and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, as well as the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations.

The development process breaks with the established methods of the traditional car manufacturers, with designers and developers not working sequentially on a new vehicle, instead of collaborating from the outset in a shared software environment. Subsequent, often time-consuming and cost-intensive modifications resulting from the discovery of non-feasibility are completely avoided. Incari’s software also takes a 3D-first approach, offering entirely new possibilities in user comfort – especially in combination with augmented reality (AR). The Incari method promises a reduction in HMI development times of up to 70 percent, with lower personnel requirements and higher quality.

The Piëch GT aims to exploit all of this potential:

“The user experience is a key factor in the success of our vehicle. From a business perspective, however, I would also like to emphasize the revolutionary character of our efficient and high-performance development concept. The partnership with Incari has enabled us to accomplish what the vast majority of manufacturers – especially the very large and established ones – have failed to achieve until now: smart, a software-based collaboration between designers and engineers at a very early stage,” says Toni Piëch, co-founder and CEO of Piëch Automotive.

Fewer personnel, faster and more flexible HMI development process

“The Piëch GT digital cockpit is impressive in every respect; it marks a new benchmark in the industry. But we are equally proud of the process. The extremely fast, lean, and efficient development of the entire HMI system has confirmed all the advantages of our software solution,” says Osman Dumbuya, founder and CEO of Incari.

“Incari Studio is revolutionizing the HMI development process in the automotive industry.”

For the HMI development of the Piëch GT, Berlin-based tech company Incari relied on its in-house solution Incari Studio. Incari Studio is a software platform with an intuitive visual user interface. It makes it possible to design complex interfaces in 3-D without programming knowledge. Incari also offers a common software environment for developers and designers as early as the prototyping phase. This creates flexibility and saves time.

“Using the conventional development methods, changing the design of just one element often takes up to 14 days and involves a five-figure sum. With Incari Studio, changes can be made in a matter of minutes,” says Dumbuya.
“Without the use of Incari Studio, a development like the HMI for the Piëch GT would have tied up about ten experts from a wide variety of fields for over twelve months. With our software, the Piëch GT project was completed by three creatives in just six months.”

About Piëch

Piëch Automotive was founded in Zurich in 2016 by Toni Piëch and Rea Stark Rajcic. A permanent core team of specialists, all of whom bring several years of experience from a wide range of industry sectors and who have worked for well-known automotive manufacturers around the world, designed the company’s modular vehicle platform together with a further 200 or so external collaborators. The platform can be used as the basis for developing various body and powertrain variants. The first of these is due to be launched on the market in mid-2024.