According to Bloomberg, Navya's 15-passenger driverless shuttle car has been piloted in Paris' premier central business district since July 2017. Navya is now producing a smaller SUV to meet the 6 The demand for sedan models is expected to be listed in 2018, priced at about 250,000 euros.
Navya's strategy is to outsource the development of vehicle and software designs within the enterprise to create fully automated vehicles that are faster to market than their competitors Navya claims to be the first company to design and manufacture fully autonomous vehicles instead of retrofitting existing Car, in an attempt to be the first to offer a completely autonomous vehicle lineup.
GM's vehicle sharing business, Maven, and Cruise Automation's tests of self-driving cars helped to lift investor expectations; and Alphabet's own carmaker, Waymo, has decided to buy Fiat Chrysler vehicles and apply its technology Automobiles manufactured in other enterprises.
Analysts believe that entering the automotive industry is an expensive venture move, such as Dyson invests 2 billion pounds, the goal of developing electric vehicles and even unmanned vehicles by 2020, Dyson now has 400 engineers in the development plan .
Navya taxi prices between 230,000 ~ 250,000 euros, a top speed of about 80 kilometers, will soon begin testing in the streets of Paris and from the third quarter of 2018. Navya will be with the French transport operator Keolis and Australia Royal Motors Club made its first experiment.
Navya's potential customers include Uber, as well as car rental platforms such as Hertz and Avis Budget Group. The challenge for Navya is that many potential buyers already have a self-driving development plan. And the dream of a fully self-driving dream is not that simple, as NuTonomy was Delphi Automotive bought for 450 million U.S. dollars.
So far, Navya has made some initial gains by investing in a small feeder bus manufacturing plant in Michigan and plans to sell 450 minibuses by the end of 2018, with one in three entering the U.S. market, according to reports from Navya in 2017 including Valeo Within the investors raised 30 million euros, the future will need to raise more money to realize the dream of driving.