Easymile
| EasyMile | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Société par actions simplifiée |
| founding | 2014 |
| Seat |
Toulouse , France
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| management | Francois Ligier (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | > 150 |
| Branch | automobile |
| Website | easymile.com |
Easymile SAS , based in Toulouse and with offices in Berlin , Denver , Melbourne and Singapore, is a French manufacturer of autonomous vehicles founded in 2014 .
Easymile EZ10
The EZ10 driverless minibus presented in 2014 is manufactured by Ligier and was involved in over 210 projects up to September 2018, covering 250,000 km and carrying 320,000 passengers, among others. a. there were two buses in Paris between January and April 2017 in partnership with the urban transport company RATP in an experimental passenger service between the Gare de Lyon and the Gare d'Austerlitz . In Bad Birnbach , the minibus was used for the first time across Germany on a 660-meter-long route between the market square and the thermal baths. It has been traveling between the bus station and the old town in Monheim am Rhein since February 2020.
Companies
The company was founded in 2014 as a joint venture between the small car manufacturer Ligier and the partner company Robosoft. In January 2017, Alstom invested EUR 14 million in the company against a minority stake; In July 2017, the German automotive supplier Continental invested an undisclosed amount in the company. In September, the French state finance institute Bpifrance invested 6.5 million euros in the company, thereby adding to the group of shareholders.
Web links
- Website of the company (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Fusaq: BPIFRANCE investit 6.5 M € in EASYMILE , September 25, 2018; accessed on the same day (French)
- ↑ Environment Magazine: La RATP teste le véhicule autonome d'Easymile , 23. January 2017 (French)
- ↑ Kurverwaltung Bad Birnbach: The first self-driving minibus in Germany ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Pioneers for Germany: Autonomous buses run for free through small towns in North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Le Monde: Alstom investit dans les minibus autonomes du français EasyMile , January 20, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2017 (French)
- ↑ Continental: Continental invests in EasyMile and drives the development of driverless mobility concepts , press release from July 4, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2018
