The Mobility in Harmony Consortium (MIH Consortium) is an organization led by

Foxconn Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (), Trade name, doing business as Hon Hai Technology Group () in Taiwan, Foxconn Technology Group () in China, and Foxconn () internationally, is a Taiwanese multinational corporation, multinational electron ...

to operate the MIH Open EV Alliance, which promotes an eponymous

electric vehicle An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road vehicle, road and rail vehicles, electric boats and Submersible, submer ...

development platform featuring

open standards An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a common prerequisite that open standards use an open license that provides for extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in their development due to ...

History

The MIH Consortium was created in 2020 by Foxconn to develop and promote a set of open standards for electric vehicles. By fostering partnerships to create reference designs, the MIH Consortium states it intends to shorten

development cycle In software engineering, a software development process or software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process of planning and managing software development. It typically involves dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or s ...

s for electric vehicles,

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, and mobility service software. In July 2022 the consortium had 2,407 members from 65 countries. CEO Jack Cheng stated in August 2023 that MIH was seeking a factory site in India or Thailand for production of the small Project X car. After licensing Project X to M Mobility in October 2023, Cheng became the CEO of M Mobility and Jun Seki was appointed to replace him at MIH, starting in April 2024.

Members

* Autocrypt *

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Lordstown Motors Nu Ride Inc., formerly Lordstown Motors Corporation, is an American electric vehicle automaker located in Lordstown, Ohio. The company was based at the Lordstown Assembly plant, previously a General Motors factory. Lordstown Motors was known ...

* Mazibuko Motor Company *

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

* Tata Technologies *

PTT Public Company Limited PTT Public Company Limited or simply PTT () is a Thai Government-owned corporation, state-owned Stock Exchange of Thailand, SET-listed oil and natural gas, gas company. Formerly known as the Petroleum Authority of Thailand, it owns extensive sub ...

TECO Electric and Machinery TECO Electric & Machinery Co. is a Taiwanese company specializing in the manufacture of industrial electric motors. The company also manufactures and installs various electrical and mechanical equipments such as telecommunication equipment and ...

* TomTom *

Yulon Yulon Motor Co., Ltd. () is a Taiwanese automaker and importer. Taiwan's biggest automaker as of 2010, Yulon is known for building Nissan models under license. The original romanization of the company's name is Yue Loong, but in 1992 the compan ...

Products

Open EV Software Platform

The Open EV Software Platform was developed by MIH,

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, Microsoft, and

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Project X

Project X was announced in 2022 as a modular urban vehicle. At the 2023 Japan Mobility Show, MIH displayed the Project X concept, a small, three-seat battery electric vehicle for urban use. It uses two swappable battery packs designed by

Gogoro Gogoro Inc. is a Taiwanese company that developed a Battery swapping, battery-swapping refueling platform for urban electric vehicle, electric two-wheel Scooter (motorcycle), scooters, mopeds and motorcycles. It also develops its own line of elect ...

for that company's electric scooters. A six-seat version is scheduled to be shown in 2024, and a nine-seat version will follow in 2025. Ultimately, the Project X vehicles are intended to serve as a

reference design A reference design is a technical design of a system that is intended for others to copy. It contains the essential elements of the system; however, third parties may enhance or modify the design as required. When discussing computer designs, th ...

base for further customization by fleet operators. The hardware and software platforms for Project X were licensed to the startup M Mobility in October 2023. MIH Consortium will assist M Mobility in developing the vehicle, but MIH Consortium retains the supply chain. The primary investor in M Mobility is

Tech Mahindra Tech Mahindra is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company. It was formed in 1986 as a joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and BT Group. Part of the Mahindra Group, the company is headquartered in Pun ...

; M Mobility is developing a vehicle for markets in Japan, India, and Thailand.

References

External link

* {{Official website, https://www.mih-ev.org/en/index/ Technology consortia Battery electric vehicle organizations Foxconn Tata Group subsidiaries Microsoft subsidiaries PTT group