Drive Your Work Home with Nissan’s Mobile Office Concept
Luckily for most white collar workers in the 21st Century, the “Office Space” atmosphere of your workplace is becoming extinct. From four-day work weeks to telecommuting and working from anywhere via wireless networks, most companies are as liberal as ever with their employees – long as some work is still getting done. Nissan has taken the concept of working from outside the cubicle and turned it into working from the road – check out Nissan’s NV200 Mobile Office concept.
The auto maker calls its NV200 Mobile Office “A Smart Business Tool of New Generation, for Active Professionals.” NV200 combines storage with an office space that has the ability to extract its interior out like a drawer. This allows all your workstation items to be at arms reach while traveling. When parked, you can extend a large storage space to reach any valuables or tools. You can contact clients or get your paperwork done while parked at a lake or beach – then take your scuba gear out for a run during a lunch break.
Nissan states their interiors of the NV200 Mobile Office concept creates an efficient work space with a human touch. Its cargo area is customizable, so you can switch and swap out storage areas for whatever your hobby or business requires.
Get ready to see your co-workers rolling past the office in their Nissan NV200 sometime in the next few years.
I Want One!!!!
Looks practical for a scuba diver or some other extreme sport fanatic, but I don’t think any of that will be useful for average joe.
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THIS IS AWSOME FOR US WORK-A-DAY commuters!
That’s cool, but anyone can set-up a mobile office in just any plain old van.
All I can say is why?
I can see how this might be interesting in Japan since apartment space is a premium…but still…
Plus, while you are “working” inside, you stuff outside is getting stolen…
another corporate attempt to control our lives. i’m holding out for the Nissan brain implant, estimated ship date: 2011. it will allow the corporation to access your brain directly, without the troubling interface known as a “personality”.
Mark – the van’s retractable storage area can be converted to store many different types of equipment or cargo – the example model Nissan put out was converted for a Scuba diver. It will most likely be marketed towards working-joes and joans who enjoy outdoor recreation on their breaks, though.
Who cares? Its just a sweet ride. You might be able to get work done in that van, but who is actually gonna do any? You’ll be inside at your “desk” looking at all the cool gadgets that Nissan has pumped it full of, and about a week later you’ll proabably get fired for having achieved nothing!
But, id still love to have one! and if Nissan just added a bed tot hat concept, it would become a mobile apartment as well as work space. Oh well, just have to wait for one i guess.
To “Who Cares”- you mean like a mobile home?
thats awsesome! i want one i would change the scuba diving thingy into a fridge or something
This is nice
I think it shows Nissan’s engineers and product developers are thinking outside of the box. I can see a mass market appeal for this – or at least a specialty market appeal. For example, insurance adjusters would love to have all that workspace when they are on the road at a disaster site. Looks like it could use a window -at least one way to see out – in the back somewhere, although it looks like it has a tinted skylight.
I also think they confused the issue by setting this up with scuba/surf gear – it might have been better if they promoted one with the gear and another that was more office related – big execs don’t want their people surfboarding or whatever when they’re supposed to be getting work done. I think by showing both they might also get more people thinking about its potential. As for the self employed, they’ve already found ways to work at the beach or by the pool, so they probably wouldn’t jazzed up about it.
What will they think of next? Perhaps a home office?
Yes, I’m sure after we have all paid our (un)fair share of this bailout for the selfish, money hungry vipers on Wall St. none of us will be able to afford one anyway! Besides, it’s just another reason for someone to break into my car….I think I’ll go and take my anti-depressants now.
Where is Nissan now with this project?
I think they are just making the car show rounds with it
Hi!! Love it simply!!! I’ll call it Bee-Móvel!! LOL! FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations!! We’d have lots of this!!! Tks!! I’m delighted!
Glad to see!
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