26.6.2019. Already at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona SEAT, announced, micro-mobility for the whole Volkswagen group forward. For this purpose, the Spanish car maker introduced a new partnership agreement between his mobility service XMOBA and the thrill of sharing the Start-up of the UFO.
In the framework of this cooperation, the SEAT supports the community use of E-scooters (“kick sharing”) through the provision of several Hundred copies of his electric scooter eXS kick scooter powered by Segway SEAT.
Now SEAT extends the scope of the cooperation, and brings the thrill of sharing Service to Malaga. With this step, the urban micro-mobility in Spanish city is to be improved. A highly successful pilot project in Madrid, where in just two months, over 13,000 users for the service had registered what is gone.
Lucas Casasnovas, Director of Product Marketing at SEAT, said: “The SEAT eXS is the first vehicle designed by SEAT specifically in the big city in a sustainable, fun and agile way to move around. We want to improve the mobility in the large cities; the partnership with UFO is a step in the direction to establish ourselves as a benchmark in terms of micro-mobility.“
SEAT eXS kick scooter (Foto: SEAT)
Mario Marín, co-founder and CEO of UFO, added: “We are very proud to transfer the Vision which has inspired our partnership with SEAT and XMOBA, now to other cities. We thus make a contribution to the improvement of the mobility and design of cities of the future, in which the traffic flows better and the environmental footprint is smaller. Today, we extend our partnership to the city of Málaga, is a pioneer in the subject of micro-mobility. This town shows an example of how new mobility solutions can be integrated in the cities of the future.“
Cooperation with the authorities and inhabitants
SEAT, XMOBA and UFO continue to work closely with authorities and institutions. The Spanish auto mobile manufacturer, for example, the Initiative of the port of Málaga, in the direct vicinity of the pitches for the SEAT eXS kick scooter to be established. SEAT this project is a useful measure to integrate the new means of locomotion, in the most thoughtful way to the city, and at the same time for safety in road transport to contribute.
“The expansion of our cooperation with UFO further strengthens the Position of XMOBA. In Parallel, we underline our commitment to become one of the leading actors in the area of micro-mobility. We are confident that we will continue to expand this type of collaboration and Innovation in the future, to simplify the urban mobility in many cities. Our goal is to transfer this Initiative nationally and internationally to other large cities,“ explains the managing Director of XMOBA, Arantxa Alonso.
Continuous Optimization
The city of Málaga is in favour of the thrill of sharing service as a sustainable Form of urban mobility: Depending on how the Service is developed, he is supposed to be then introduced in other cities ‒ so it provides for the cooperation agreement between UFO and XMOBA. In the framework of the partnership XMOBA want.the analysis in addition, the mobility data for the thrill of sharing Service, in order to gain new insights for urban micro-mobility concepts of tomorrow and to develop further solutions that have a positive impact on the quality of life of city residents
SEAT eXS kick scooter (Foto: SEAT)
