Magazine BEAST #16 2019
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#Business | Mobility<br />
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The key is to encourage collaboration between<br />
cities, startups and other mobility services. Without<br />
teamwork, there is no way cities will be able to offer<br />
functional and efficient transportation systems that<br />
everybody can use in the future. The end goal should<br />
always be to improve the quality of life for citizens,<br />
and that cannot happen without cooperation.<br />
ABOUT WUNDER MOBILITY<br />
What are the We’re main the challenges fastest growing you faced mobility<br />
when building technology an entire company mobility in ecosystem?<br />
Europe.<br />
What about working hand in hand with cities?<br />
With 150 employees of over 30 nationalities, we are the largest<br />
and fastest growing mobility technology company in Europe.<br />
Our HQ is in Hamburg with further presence in Manila, Delhi,<br />
Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Tokyo.<br />
It was very difficult to find an optimal way of<br />
positioning ourselves at the right place in the overall<br />
mobility value chain, which includes manufacturers,<br />
dealers, tech RIDES providers SHARED WITH and WUNDER consumers. Understanding<br />
est.<br />
the different intersections of technology stacks that<br />
power different 500k mobility 1m solutions 10m and then 20m coming up<br />
2016 2017 2018 <strong>2019</strong><br />
with a common tech stack was not easy.<br />
The biggest We difficulty want to we become faced the when best mobility working with<br />
cities was identifying technology the company right stakeholders in the world. that were<br />
involved in mobility-related<br />
Our vision is a robust commitment<br />
decision<br />
to create<br />
making.<br />
a world<br />
It<br />
of<br />
is one of<br />
individual, intelligent and connected mobility. We create<br />
those things that<br />
technology<br />
sounds<br />
to improve<br />
much<br />
the quality<br />
simpler<br />
of life of people<br />
than<br />
living<br />
it actually<br />
is. As a startup, in cities we with have efficient always traffic, reduced been emissions used and to noise. working<br />
quickly, but governments understandably run at a<br />
different speed, which takes some getting used to.<br />
Wunder Mobility Wunder describes Mobility itself Cities and as a tech Sustainable company, and<br />
Technology Companies<br />
Connected Mobility<br />
but how important is the Human aspect when it comes<br />
to redefining mobility and actually changing the way<br />
people see and use their cars? How can tech help?<br />
We are driving the development of<br />
Since we have innovative experience mobility in the solutions B2C realm, forward. we know<br />
Mobility is a prerequisite for the creation of a holistic society<br />
that the shift in attitudes that end users - who are…real<br />
with economic growth, self-fulfillment and individual success.<br />
people - have This been is why we experiencing want to use our technology is the to biggest help cities and reason<br />
businesses develop sustainable mobility solutions.<br />
why society has already started accepting car sharing<br />
and other mobility types as a legitimate alternative to<br />
private vehicle ownership. To put it in other words, it is<br />
the users who really started the whole shared mobility<br />
trend. By providing tech solutions that empower<br />
people to access their mobility type of choice, tech is<br />
giving people options they would not have otherwise<br />
had, thereby making the mobility landscape more<br />
democratic.<br />
What are the next steps in the development<br />
of the Wunder Mobility ecosystem?<br />
Even though our portfolio covers almost every aspect<br />
of mobility, we are currently working on launching<br />
our first technology solution aimed at helping cities<br />
analyze and optimize different mobility services in<br />
their area. We have developed this technology on the<br />
basis of the learnings we got out of being a multimodal<br />
solution. We are also in the process of combining the<br />
capabilities of different products in our portfolio and<br />
offering them as a package solution, such as carpool<br />
and parking.<br />
What are your thoughts on the latest initiatives<br />
around mobility that have been taken in Luxembourg?<br />
We generally view any mobility initiatives that encourage<br />
the use of public transportation favorably, particularly in<br />
a country like Luxembourg where car ownership per capita<br />
is very high. Electric vehicles are always better alternatives<br />
to CO 2<br />
-emitting fossil fuels. We definitely support free<br />
Our public products transportation connect end-to-end - which is to start in March 2020<br />
services in Luxembourg to create a -, connected if cities can afford it, but we do have<br />
ecosystem to question of sustainable if those mobility and similar initiatives are genuinely<br />
We encouraging are the only global company people that conceptualizes to stop purchasing private vehicles<br />
and scales all variations of new mobility services as<br />
entirely. At any rate, it is a major step in the right direction<br />
part of its technology solutions.<br />
- let’s see how it pans out!<br />
Our technology is used in more than 100 cities on five continents to power m<br />
facilitating over 12 million trips worldwide.<br />
100+<br />
Cities<br />
5<br />
Continents<br />
100k<br />
Vehicles<br />
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