NAVYA Announces a Revenue of €4.5 Million in the Third Quarter of 2018 - Seite 2

Management is seeing growing demand for autonomous vehicles, which is leading to faster growth in qualified sales leads for NAVYA shuttles. The Company currently has qualified leads relating to 417 shuttles compared to 277 at 31 March 2018 and 57 at the end of 2017.

In particular, several projects involving fleets of between 5 and 20 shuttles are at an advanced stage of discussions, and could be sealed before the end of the year. These projects should lead to an activity profile similar to the one of 2017, concentrating a significant portion of the year’s total activity in the last quarter.

To reduce the time taken to convert leads into actual shuttle sales, NAVYA has strengthened its sales force with the recruitment of two sales managers for the United States and the EMEA LATAM zone. The sales team currently has 21 employees compared to 10 at the end of 2017.

NAVYA has also recently announced the creation of a subsidiary with Charlatte Manutention, part of the Fayat group and a world leader in electric baggage tractors, to develop autonomous tractor solutions in industrial sites and airports.

With those solutions, this subsidiary opens up major new opportunities in adjacent markets related to autonomous tractors and will enable NAVYA to monetise its assets and R&D. The development is fully in line with NAVYA’s growth strategy, aimed at becoming a world leader in autonomous vehicles.

Finally, NAVYA announced at the Paris Motor Show that the Company initiated a partnership with AXA notably to develop insurance solutions tailored to autonomous vehicles. The partnership allows NAVYA to develop a specific insurance solution for users of new transport services, helping to enhance its offering and improve its service quality.

Factoring in the completion of certain fleet sales before the end of 2018, NAVYA is confirming its full-year revenue target of €30 million.

About NAVYA

NAVYA is a leading French name in the autonomous vehicle market and in smart shared mobility solutions. With more than 250 employees in France (Paris and Lyon) and in the United States (Michigan), NAVYA develops, manufactures and commercializes autonomous, driverless, and electric vehicles that combine robotic, digital and driving technologies at the highest level. Since 2015, NAVYA has been the first to market and put into service autonomous mobility solutions. NAVYA has a range of two autonomous vehicles: the AUTONOM SHUTTLE, launched in September 2015, of which more than 100 had been sold as of 30 September 2018, notably in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Australia, and the AUTONOM CAB, unveiled in November 2017 and whose first road tests will start shortly. Created in 2014 by Christophe Sapet and Robolution Capital (managed by 360 Capital Partners), his reference shareholder, NAVYA’s shareholders also include the Gravitation fund and Paris Region Venture Fund (Région Île-de-France) managed by Cap Decisif Management as well as Valeo and Keolis groups.