Report on the next-generation EV concept car "AKXY" announced by Asahi Kasei and GLM

As of May 17, 2017, Asahi Kasei and EV maker · GLM announced the concept car "AKXY" of the next generation EV.First bullet articleSo we reported on the body of AKXY mainly, but in this article I will report the state of the presentation.

About the completion of running concept car "AKXY (ACCY)" | Press Release | Asahi Kasei Corporation
https://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/asahi/jp/news/2017/ze170517.html

The venue for the recital was the "New Toyosu Brillia Running Stadium" in Koto Ward, Tokyo. It is a facility in the immediate vicinity of the Toyosu New Market which is talking about the relocation of the Tsukiji market.


The inside of the building is a course that runs, and natural light gathers from the roof using laminated wood and transparent panels.


A stage is made on one of elongated buildings ......


On the other side, you can see that AKXY is contained and a tent covered with black cloth is installed.


And when the presentation began, AKXY appeared. The situation is from the following movie.

Asahi Kasei × GLM's running concept car "AKXY (Aksy)" running - YouTube


Literally "without sound" ran AKXY as it is on the stage ... ...


Asahi Kasei Group campaign girl · Rina Omoro opens the door ... ...


Mr. Hiroshi Yoshida, Asahi Kasei Managing Executive Officer, came down from inside.


Mr. Yoshida who will enter the greetings at the beginning as it is. Asahi Kasei launched two new organizations to raise sales of 300 billion yen in 2025 in the "automotive related field" which is positioned as an important field in the medium-term management plan being promoted. One of them is the "Automotive Business Promotion Office", and it was "AKXY" that was formed as a concept car for that purpose. Asahi Kasei is proposing the possibility of solutions to customers around the world as a "material solution partner" in the automobile industry.



Next, Mr. Udono Michiaki of Asahi Kasei Automotive Business Promotion Division made a presentation about the concept car.


In today's automobile industry many cars "connecting" are born, cars sharing services, AI and so on, the way people are changing is changing a lot. In order to respond to such changes, it is necessary to deal with all supply chains across multiple tiers (hierarchies) in the industry of building automobiles. We propose to propose comprehensive power as the Asahi Kasei Group as a medium-term plan.


The concept car made inside such is AKXY, but its naming is "ASahiKAsei×(Multiply)YIt is said that it is taken from the four characters of "ou".


In order to realize that, AKXY which formed the concept of next generation EV was born under the cooperation with GLM which develops EV in Japan.


To the car body, 27 products and technologies such as various materials and solutions provided by Asahi Kasei are introduced.






AKXY will be held at Pacifico Yokohama from 24th to 26th May 2017Exhibition of people and automobile technologyThe actual cars will be exhibited at the venue and the schedule of AKXY running will be shown in the video.


Also, a website for the automotive business is launched.


Automotive | Asahi Kasei Corporation
http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/amm/

After the presentation is a photo session time.



And it came time to actually go up to the podium and shoot all the real cars.



Body shape which understands the word "sports car and SUV" well


Rear window is complicated shaping


In addition, detailed pictures can be seen variously in the following article.

Venture GLM from Kyoto University aiming for "Ferrari of EV" and next-generation EV concept car "AKXY" announced by Asahi Kasei announced - GIGAZINE


Although it is AKXY which appeared in a very unusual form of "a concept car that can run", it seems that for the moment no actual vehicle based on the concept car appears. However, it seems that the various technologies proposed here will be incorporated into the future EV creation in the world.