A robot in the future your car filling up?

Posted on 30-10-2013 at 10:53 by CasperH – 43 Comments”

On the Petroleum Equipment Institute Convention in Atlanta is a robot that is fully automatic you car aftankt. Is this the future for petrol stations?

It is super easy: you drive to the pump, a sensor is looking for you tankklepje, a robot arm with a suction cup makes the thing open. Simple, right? My car would not suitable for be because my cap is still just using the ignition key must be opened but for many cars that do this time, it is of course an excellent solution to not more in the cold having to stand up and gasoline over your suede bordeelslippers to spill.

Anyway, the door once opened is going to be a hose volautomagischwonderlijk the tank in, you have no Geert Wilders. The tank is filled, the pump stops, the filling tube and robotic arm to do the same trick reversed and ready to go. Or Barry. Or Hendrik.

What’s the advantage? 30% faster refueling, according to Husky Energy from Canada and Fuelmatics of Sweden. Whether it really is feasible dare, we are still a little doubtful: for example, what happens if the cap is not flat enough? And what if the cap is not a conventional place, such as, for example, in many vans is the case? A Porsche 911 we can see, this system was not successful. Still, we can well imagine that a system like this the pressure towards more efficiency and so lower costs for can.

It is, perhaps, the future of refueling but are you going to let the car by a robot fueling up or do you prefer yourself? Check the video on robotjunk.nl!