Mobility & Vehicle Efficiency

RMI brings its "think and do" approach of bringing cutting-edge research and hands-on experience into the transportation sector — which consumes 70% of America's oil and emits over 30% of its greenhouse gases. See: U.S. Fuel Consumption by Sector graph.

MOVE (Mobility & Vehicle Efficiency) provides cutting edge research and transformative industry engagements to create breakthrough efficiency solutions in our core automotive and trucking markets, as well as aviation, freight, and integrated transport systems.

The brand MOVE implies motion, action, change; moving forward; an impetus for companies, people, and governments to act to radically reduce oil use and carbon emissions. MOVE also embodies RMI's "end use/least cost" thinking, and encapsulates the group's strategy:

• MObility is the ultimate "end use" that people desire, not gallons of gasoline, diesel, or kerosene;
• Vehicle Efficiency — as opposed to, say, alternative fuels — is the "least cost" way of achieving the mobility modern societies require.

Ultimately, as our mobility is 99% oil-fueled, we are here to catalyze profitable efficiency-led solutions to Winning the Oil Endgame. Our roadmap is that report, which shows that within just a few decades we can save over half of our oil use, profitably, through efficiency-focused transformation in the transport sector.

MOVE’s team of engineers, designers, and business experts work with clients to achieve breakthrough results focused around transport efficiency.

Whether it’s designing new green vehicle architecture or partnering on deep-impact sustainability strategy, MOVE brings its unique set of capabilities to every client and research project:

• Lightweight Strategy: With its unique focus on platform physics and its access to industry's utmost lightweight materials experts — Alcoa (www.alcoa.com) for aluminum, FiberForge (www.fiberforge.com) for composites — MOVE can help clients in automobile, trucking and aviation redefine product research, development and marketing for efficiency.
  
  
• Breakthrough Design: Our early-stage design process brings stakeholders together in an innovation workshop enabling rapid, systems-focused product development.
  
  
• Advanced Technology Assessment: MOVE brings its in-house expertise and select outside experts to evaluate the cost, feasibility, and design strategies for a host of advanced technologies across transportation sectors, including: lightweight materials and structures; aerodynamics and thermal systems; software and electronic systems; and electric powertrains and components.
  
  
• LCA and Sustainability Planning: MOVE utilizes advanced life-cycle assessments (LCA) to help clients develop and implement sustainability plans. MOVE helps clients not only address inefficiencies but also execute on implementation strategies and consumer-focused marketing and PR.
  
  
• Green-Focused Competitive Strategy: MOVE deep-dives into market and consumer research and assesses competitive landscapes — through our unique "green" lens — in order to define the most robust market strategy for its clients' products. MOVE also helps clients craft innovative business models to capture enhanced value.
  
  
• Electrification Design and Insight: MOVE experts possess decades of combined experience in electric and hybrid vehicle engineering from the world's leading manufacturers. MOVE can help clients, particularly in automotive and trucking, develop electric-propulsion systems to ensure competitive advantage in the market place.