the start-up Nuwo offers functional electric bicycles
After the company cars, here are the electric bikes… for the company. The offer arrives in the Toulouse metropolitan area with the installation of the startup Nuwo. Function bicycles for whom and for what uses? We explain to you.
Gone is the company car, make way for the company electric bike. Nuwo, a newly established startup in Toulouse offers this new service to companies.
Among the first beneficiaries in the pink city, Lucas, a young IT consultant who regularly visits his clients located in the center of Toulouse and on the outskirts.
In places like the city center where it is difficult to park, the bike is really practical. We arrive, we attach it and it saves money compared to the price of gasoline.
Lucas Ventura – IT consultant
Like Lucas, more and more employees benefit from a company bicycle. Ecolo, remedy for traffic jams, fiscally attractive for the employer… the company bike is developing. The motivations for the company that offers it to its employees are multiple:
If we reached around 40 to 50% of the workforce on electric bikes, that would already be huge for a company of our size and our sector. We think it’s a way to provide an additional service to employees, compared to the competition.
Guillaume Gras – IT company director
Established for a few months in Toulouse, the startup Nuwo offers turnkey bicycle rental offers for companies. The rent is partly paid by the employer and the employee who benefits from two wheels for his home-work journey.
The company, for a rent of around fifty euros per month, will be able to provide its employee with the use of a bicycle. For the employee, it is also interesting. For around thirty euros, he finds himself with a quality bike that will be insured and maintained for the entire rental.
Nicolas Lutzi – Co-founder of Nuwo
The Toulouse company begins. It has joined the ten companies already positioned in the rental of company bicycles in France. A very recent market in France. But well applied in our German neighbors for example, where there are nearly a million company bikes.
The market is potentially promising, knowing that 60% of home-work journeys of less than 5 kilometers are currently made by car.