PHOTOS! Here are pictures of the slated PUMA, Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility vehicle. Segway and GM’s Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility car timeline would deliver the P.U.M.A. by at least 2012 operating on batteries through city streets.

Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility PUMA Pictures
PUMA Photo 1
PUMA Photo 2

Yes it’s a stylish two seater, two wheel vehicle developed in just the last 18 months. PUMA will be unveiled today, Tuesday morning, in New York.

Larry Burns, GM’s vice president of research and development and strategic planning, and Jim Norrod, Segway’s president and chief executive, issued pre press conference statements Monday night.

Burns says of the PUMA:

“The DNA of the automobile has been pretty much the same for about 100 years … powered by an internal combustion engine, energized by petroleum, driven mechanically, and controlled mechanically or hydraulically.”

He says the PUMA instead is a ” marriage of electrically-driven vehicles … [with] connected vehicles.”

The vheicle has no dashboard, but rather you pop in your PDA or smart phone that displayed necessary data like speed.

“[The PUMA is] a way in which we can take these enormous freedoms that we’ve had to interact and move about and bring them together through electrically-driven, connected vehicles … [that also] allow us to express ourselves with fashion, style and fun.”