Newsletter #29 - Future of Mobility Club

🛑 🎉 Dear mobility enthusiasts, I hope you have followed the arrival of astronauts to the ISS and are ready for a digest of the top news and reports in the mobility sector. Another busy 2-weeks in the field - let's get started!

👉 Club's Upcoming Events
[20/05] - Fireside chat with Paul Newman, co-founder & CTO of Oxbotica. Oxbotica has raised more than $90m in VC funding and is one of the world’s leading autonomous driving software companies. Join us for a unique opportunity to hear the story behind founding Oxbotica and get a glimpse into Paul's rare combination of engineering talent and entrepreneurial mindset.

🔍 Looking for a job?
As always, check out our section Jobs to be done at the end of this email.

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Making Micromobility Heavy with Mark Frohnmayer of Arcimoto

Between COVID work stoppages, a massive stock surge, a strategic tech acquisition, and the general fits and starts of pre-production, Arcimoto, maker of semi-enclosed electric three-wheelers, has had an eventful year. Here, their CEO, Mark Frohnmayer, sheds light on the company’s manufacturing progress and long-term ambitions—and why he believes heavy micromobility is vital to the future of electric vehicles.

Watch here

Top news & reports

🤑 Mobility's Future - An investment reality check

Great report from McKinsey, which recently reviewed the landscape for mobility start-up and investment. In addition to looking at the amounts invested by and into specific companies, they identified the technologies that attracted the most funding, focusing on 17 critical categories related to automation, connectivity, electrification, and smart mobility (ACES).

Full report

♻️ To transform the world, transform public transport

Public transport systems around the world — and the workers who power them — have kept communities moving during the fight against COVID-19. To recover from the crisis, governments must now make ambitious commitments to invest in public transport infrastructure and operations to make them more efficient.

Full article

🔋 Building better batteries: Insights on chemistry and design from China

Another insightful report from McKinsey on battery for EVs (BEVs). The demand for BEVs is strong, prompting fierce competition among many companies for cost and technology leadership. If they can improve battery cells and packs, which account for up to 35 to 50 percent of vehicle cost, they could significantly increase potential profits.

Full article

🟣 Delivery Wars (Getir focused)

One of my best read about grocery delivery platforms and the origin of an industry leader: Getir. It allows you to understand the origins of <15 min grocery delivery companies and how this business model is interlinked with Turkish History. You'll never see this industry the same.

Full article

🚁 Luminar Technologies x Airbus

Luminar Technologies is expanding its lidar business beyond automotive and into aviation through a partnership with Airbus. Luminar and Airbus will develop and test how lidar can be used to enhance sensing, perception and system-level capabilities to ultimately enable safe, autonomous flight, the companies said.

Full article

Metrics of the week

📈 Measuring the market for Micromobility - interesting data projecting a global view of the micromobility market in comparison to EV. Full article here.

Mobility's event

What is the future of commuting - 05/05

Commuting has changed. Where once the number of modes for moving about the city was static in the last decade, the choices have exploded to include a variety of MaaS services, such as ride-hail, bike-share, carpool, dockless scooters, and more.

This webinar covers how cities and transportation providers can embrace multimodal commuting and create more livable, less car-dependent communities post-lockdown.

Register here

TechCrunch Virtual Mobility Week - 09/06

Join TechCrunch’s editors during this virtual event as they break through the hype to understand the current state of the mobility revolution and reveal the future of transportation.

Register here

Jobs to be done

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🇪🇺 EUROPE 🇪🇺

🌍 Rest of the World 🌍

Do you want to share a nice job offer? Please email our Co-President, Julien: jtrost.mba2021@london.edu

Club's upcoming events (coming soon)

EVENT

Fireside chat with Paul Newman, co-founder & CTO of Oxbotica

Thursday, May 20, 2021
7:00pm - 8:00pm

TBD

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What is it like to build a company with a super bold mission to fundamentally change the way goods and people are moved? You may not know, but autonomous-vehicle technology is already being deployed in a number of industries and the UK-based Oxbotica is leading the way! Join us for a fireside chat with Paul Newman, co-founder & CTO of Oxbotica, hosted by Alex Tazov.
Paul co-founded the company in 2014 by spinning it off from University of Oxford, where he is the Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI). Since then, the company has made ground-breaking progress in the autonomous technology, highlighted by the recent partnership announcements with Ocado and BP. Oxbotica has raised more than $90m in VC funding from such high-profile investors as Ocado, BP ventures, Tencent and BGF. In addition to his roles at Oxbotica and University of Oxford, Paul also serves as a science advisor to the Prime Minister.
Join us for a unique opportunity to hear the story behind founding Oxbotica and get a glimpse into Paul's rare combination of engineering talent and entrepreneurial mindset. We will talk about how Paul started the company, why he decided to spin it off from the university, how he competes with Silicon Valley out of Oxford and what role business school students can play at advanced technology start-ups like Oxbotica.