瑞典Voi公司已在38個(gè)城市推出共享電動(dòng)滑板車

Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding.

Voi Technology(瑞典電動(dòng)摩托車初創(chuàng)公司)是一家“微移動(dòng)”初創(chuàng)公司，在10個(gè)歐洲國(guó)家的38個(gè)城市中提供電動(dòng)滑板車服務(wù)，這家公司在B輪融資中獲得8500萬(wàn)美元融資。

Launched in 2018, the company is best-known for its e-scooter rentals but now pitches itself as a micro-mobility provider, offering a number of different transport devices. These include various e-scooter and e-bike models, in a bid to become a broader transport operator helping to re-shape urban transport and wean people off using cars.

這家公司成立于2018年，最出名的業(yè)務(wù)就是出租電動(dòng)滑板車，但現(xiàn)在宣傳說(shuō)要提供微移動(dòng)服務(wù)，提供多種交通工具，其中包括不同的電動(dòng)滑板車和電動(dòng)自行車。該公司參與了一場(chǎng)投標(biāo)，要拓展交通工具的業(yè)務(wù)范圍，致力于重塑城市交通，讓人們放棄汽車。

To date, Voi says it has 4 million registered users and has powered 14 million rides. More recently it has launched new, more robust hardware that has been designed to sustain the rigours of commercial e-bike sharing. The idea is that more suitable hardware will help e-scooter companies improve margins since more rides can be extracted from the life-span of each vehicle.

Voi公司稱截止目前注冊(cè)用戶達(dá)400萬(wàn)，騎行次數(shù)高達(dá)1400萬(wàn)次。最近又推出了新的更耐用的車輛，能承受得住作為商業(yè)共享電動(dòng)車的使用。他們的初衷是車輛更耐用將有助于電動(dòng)滑板車公司提高利潤(rùn)，因?yàn)槊枯v車在使用壽命內(nèi)能提供更多的騎行次數(shù)。

On that note, Voi says it will use the new funding to develop “strong profitable businesses” in the 38 cities where it is already operating, as well as increase its R&D spend to improve its technology platform and products. Earlier this year, the company announced that it is already profitable in the cities of Stockholm and Oslo.

Voi公司在記錄中說(shuō)將利用新資金在38個(gè)已有業(yè)務(wù)的城市中推廣“盈利較高的業(yè)務(wù)”，還要增加研發(fā)資金用于升級(jí)技術(shù)平臺(tái)和產(chǎn)品。今年早些時(shí)候該公司宣布已經(jīng)在斯德哥爾摩和奧斯陸盈利。

“Clearly, we feel we are on track to achieve this in more of our cities and that is our aim,” Voi co-founder and CEO Fredrik Hjelm tells me. “At this point, a key focus for us is to ensure we continue to increase the lifetime of our e-scooters, forge key partnerships and continue to work in those cities which provide the best conditions for a profitable e-scooter business”.

Voi公司聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官Fredrik Hjelm對(duì)我說(shuō)：“顯然，我們認(rèn)為能在更多的城市中盈利，這是我們的目標(biāo)。在這一點(diǎn)上，我們關(guān)注的重點(diǎn)是確保能繼續(xù)提高電動(dòng)滑板車的壽命、建立關(guān)鍵合作伙伴關(guān)系并繼續(xù)在能為盈利的電動(dòng)滑板車業(yè)務(wù)提供最好條件的城市發(fā)展業(yè)務(wù)”。