Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOCH20241115010
- Term of Validity
- 15 November 2024 - 15 November 2025
- Company's Country
- Switzerland
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Investment agreement
- Targeted Countries
- Portugal
- Spain
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Italy
- United Kingdom
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General information
- Short Summary
- The Swiss company provides an environmentally friendly complete micro mobility solution for urban and rural areas. With a fully automated system and platform (consisting of latest IoT devices, connected vehicles and security & safety features), the micro mobility rent & ride service with electric tuk tuk and energy efficient vehicles is globally deployable and scalable. Partner agreement sought: commercial agreement with technical assistance, investment agreement and R&D cooperation agreement.
- Full Description
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Background information
The solution addresses typically the following situations:
- Rural areas: Some villages have less and less public transport. But the residents still need to travel to other places now and then. What can the community do?
- Touristic areas: Some touristic places, camping and hotels have people that want to go to sightseeing places, the village, the beach or else, but nobody wants traffic jams. Is there another solution available?
- Urban areas: Some people want something affordable between an electric scooter and car sharing. Is there another mobility sharing offer?
Introduction:
The Swiss company is the creator of world’s first rental electronic tuk-tuk service in the micro mobility sector, partnering directly with manufacturers in Europe and Asia.
The service has a breakthrough pricing model for renting, sharing, rebranding (or buying) based on single usage or subscription models.
The Swiss company obtained all required legal and road authority clearance – EU CoC (European Certificate of Conformity), currently operating in Switzerland (6 locations) and Germany (Lübeck and Berlin).
The automated micro mobility rent & ride service system (B2B) and platform. All in one platform for SaaS - Software as a service - for renting and also managing the fleet:
- Vehicle fleet: 3 passengers, pickup, delivery and hydraulic trash collector with proven swappable battery
- Service: B2B fully automated rental platform (all developed inhouse), vehicle independent and fully trackable also for fleet management
- B2B also offered as white-labelled (a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) use) or franchise model.
Detailed description of the B2B offer:
Fully automated rental schemes for B2C and white-label franchise mode with latest IoT (GPS tracking, driver/fleet management tracking and statistics), detailed trip, distance and speed statistics for post rental data analysis and improved rental schemes with Artificial Intelligence based algorithms, camera and proximity control motion detection and monitoring systems full connected to the rental platform.
The platform allows for collecting data with respect to usage, routes and other important telemetry vehicle data which can then be analysed for optimising the service and also improve the new technology integration (such as solar panels).
An innovative platform for simplified swapping the batteries will be integrated within the next few months thus allowing a highly flexible service. The swappable stations can also be created on mobile transportable vehicles which makes the entire service completely flexible
Desired cooperation:
At the moment in use at various sites with B2B partners in different countries.
The company targets B2B cooperation with hotels, councils, tourism centres and camping sites and restaurants.
So, partners for business development, marketing and servicing the vehicles in other European countries sought in mutual commercial agreement with technical assistance.
B2B partners in turn can customise / white-label as per individual needs thus providing attractive and versatile B2B services.
A leading sking lift company and council on the Swiss Alps in the canton of Grison is the first sponsor.
Further open for investment opportunities and possible research & development cooperation.
Traction and sales:
The service is operational in Switzerland at six sites already and thus has a solid proven working concept.
The company attracted entire Swiss and UK media, TV and press releases, and appeared as well on several Radio and TV at national level and regional newspapers.
In addition to renting, they also have full sales and reselling vehicles which also account for a major income stream (European representation agreement with our partners).
Cutting-edge technology based on the team’s experience in the area of micro mobility rent & ride service. - Advantages and Innovations
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Competitive USPs:
- An affordable micro mobility solution for urban and rural areas for all age groups (youngsters (15+) and elderly people)
- Focus of the system is to minimize the operational & maintenance costs
- Station based rental scheme, no requirement for special concession from local authorities (applicable in all countries)
Technology related:
- A fully automated system, consisting of latest IoT devices, fully connected vehicles and security & safety features
- The micro mobility rent & ride service with electric tuk tuk and energy efficient vehicles is globally deployable - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The specific area of activity of the partner:
- Hotels
- Councils, communities
- Corporates
- Tourism centres
- Restaurants
- Camping sites
- Associations
- Mobility as a service organisation
- Technical company like UBER, BOLT, AMAG etc.
- University campus, institutes of applied sciences (B2B)
The tasks to be performed regarding commercial agreement with technical assistance:
- Take ownership of the Swiss company’s service, distribute and sell its vehicles and services to B2B customers in your region.
o Marketing and Sales
o Business Development
o Customer Support
o Service
- Or partners for business development, marketing and servicing the vehicles in other European countries.
- Or partners who are also willing to participate as joint venture
The tasks to be performed by the partner sought regarding Investment agreement:
- Investors who are willing to partially or fully fund the endeavours.
- Partners who are also willing to participate as joint venture.
The tasks to be performed regarding Research & Development cooperation agreement:
- They are also open to partners who are willing to further develop or integrate their solution into their pilot projects (R&D, Universities, Government initiatives) - Type and Size of Partner
- University
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- Big company
- R&D Institution
- Other
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Investment agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02009004 - Road Vehicles
- 02009002 - Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
- 02010003 - System and transportation
- 02008006 - Traffic Engineering / Control Systems
- 02009001 - Design of Vehicles
- Market keywords
- 07005003 - Hotels and resorts
- 09001005 - Motor vehicles, transportation equipment and parts
- 09001007 - Other transportation
- Sector Groups Involved
- Tourism
- Proximity & Social Economy
- Mobility - Transport - Automotive
- Renewable Energy
- Targeted countries
- Portugal
- Spain
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Italy
- United Kingdom
