Investor Presentaiton
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Abstract
In 2019, low speed autonomous driving market tended to calm down, with more regular pilots but on small scale. In 2020,
the COVID-19 pandemic brings new opportunities to low speed autonomous delivery industry.
Autonomous minibuses aim to meet the needs for picking up passengers at the front and rear ends. A combination of
factors such as technology, cost and rules impede the emergence of large, profitable autonomous minibus companies.
Some players plan commercial operation in 2020. Navya as the one deploying the most autonomous minibuses worldwide
had sold a total of 164 autonomous minibuses by the end of 2019. Yet it announced that it would no longer sell vehicles
and turn to sales of system technologies considering high cost and meager profit, and that in future vehicles would be
produced purely for research and development, test and exhibition. EasyMile and May Mobility have an autonomous
minibus fleet of 80 units and 25 units, separately, with pilot run in the US, Europe and beyond.
In 2019, some companies realized normal commercial operation of projects on public roads, for example, EasyMile had
more than 230 projects worldwide and enabled normal operation on some Canadian public roads.
Baidu Apolong, an autonomous minibus which debuted in 2018, springs up the most rapidly in China. According to the
data released, over 100 units of Apolong minibuses already go into operation. Apart from Apolong, in 2019 several bus
manufacturers in China also rolled out their own autonomous minibuses. Examples include Uisee Technology which ran
autonomous shuttle buses in places such as Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Nanning Garden Expo Park and
Xingtai Garden Expo Park.
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