Cruising Electric Vehicle Brain
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The photo above is of Nathan's son using the first version of Cruisin Brain. Cruisin Brain was developed for his sons custom electric car with a trailer and then his daughter. Cruisin Brain and its components have come a long way since then.
The Cruisin Electric Vehicle Brain was created in response to the electrification of the transport sector globally. It was designed, built and coded in Australia and has been in operation and development since June 2017 till today. Cruisin Brain started its life as a brain for an electric car for Nathan Aherne's children when they were 6 & 8 years old. He wanted something incredibly safe for his children's custom electric cars (that he also built) and so he created Cruisin Brain. It has evolved significantly since then, with his children often testing new versions of Cruisin Brain as they are built.
The logic behind the creation of Cruisin Brain will become more apparent as we electrify more of our transport fleet. Each vehicle, whether it is a bicycle, golf buggy, scooter, car, tank, 4x4, amphibious vehicle, motorbike will require a brain. A brain to control each and every part of the vehicle. From the throttle to the dashboard, to the motors and indicators, each and every part of the vehicle needs to be monitored and controlled. This is not currently how electric cars work. Often they are controlled by several different components, sometimes they are controlled by their electronic speed controllers, other times, we not quite sure which part is in ultimate control of the car.
Electric cars are significantly simpler than a standard combustion engine car. At their simplest they have an electric motor, motor controller, batteries, throttle, brake and steering wheel. Sure there are other important components like lights and indicators and electric seats and radio buttons but these components are not required to make an electric vehicle run.
One of the issues with electric cars, including combustion engine cars and vehicles in general is they have become much more complicated than they need to. Having worked in the innovation industry for so long, it has become obvious the industry has decided to innovate for innovations sakes. Once this starts happening is you get increasingly bazar features that no longer help but hinder.
Electric cars provide the opportunity to standardise the main components and Cruisin Brain was created to make that possible.
Cruisin Brain is not ready to be installed in electric vehicles that are driven on the road. We are not out to compete with the large car manufacturers just yet. Though we are out to provide our products to existing electric vehicle market and the future electric vehicle market.
The opportunity of the electric vehicle market is incredible. Over time, electric vehicles will get smaller and smaller. You can see that many people have downsized to electric scooters and electric bikes. If you look at the electric motor cross bike they are significantly smaller and lighter than current combustion dirt bikes. It is this changing market that Cruisin Brain is out to capture and enable.
The Cruisin Electric Vehicle Software and Hardware has the following components:
- The Cruisin Brain
- Battery Monitoring and power consumption
- Cruise Control with complex switching
- Power Steering with onboard power converter
- Lights & Blinkers with onboard power converter
- Dashboard
- Wireless Remote Control
- Tracking
- Tire Pressure
- Anti tip and roll
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Wireless lock
- Phone configuration
- Gear Change (synthetic or actual)
- Data storage
- 2x4, 4x4, skid steer selection.
The main component is the Cruisin Brain with all other components being accessories to the Cruisin Brain. The Crusiin Brain is designed such that all critical systems are controlled onboard with accessory boards added to provide more complex system configurations.
Cruisin Brains and its supporting components are currently sold by request only. If you would like to discuss the Cruisin Brain or buy it or its supporting components, please contact us