le « Petit Poucet » de la mobilité partagée a du chien
Before 1uh November, date of their entry into service throughout the agglomeration (except Talence, Blanquefort, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Martignas-sur-Jalle which did not wish to follow the movement), time is running out. Especially since the initial calendar of the AMI, with answers expected by the candidates at the end of June, has been modified several times. Result, “a very short time between the announcement of the results and the deployment”, explains Jean-David Mora. The times of public action and entrepreneurship are sometimes different. But they are not incompatible and have converged on the need to regulate the supply of shared mobility with both a social and environmental dimension.
The observation of the partners of the start-up is also lucid: their electric scooter is and will not be “without impact” in terms of carbon footprint. Everything, however, has been thought out “to reduce it as much as possible”, claim these neo-entrepreneurs, most of whom have professional experience in the field and claim their local roots.
Less plastic, more miles
Material question, eDog has thrown its evolution on an electric scooter “accessible, handy and light” from the Super Soco brand. It is distributed by Pink Mobility and has been personalized for the Tom Thumb of shared mobility operators: orange and blue colors, top box or even the “33” badge affixed to the wing, where we see a small dog wearing a helmet with flashes in the eyes. Hence the name eDog, a nod to the Dogues de Bordeaux, the dog breed, and the nickname of the old ice hockey team.
eDog provides links with driving schools to offer quick training in driving these 50 cm³ limited to 48 km / h
The on-board electronics and the service-related application were developed with an Italian company. Thanks to GPS, areas limited to 30 km/h could be equipped, with an “automatic and progressive” deceleration of the machine, develops Thierry Lecoq. Its frame also has “30% less plastic” compared to other scooters, which is supposed to limit labor and costs in the event of an accident. To guard against this, eDog provides links with driving schools to offer rapid training in driving these 50 cm³ limited to 48 km/h. “Accidents often involve people who have not driven before. There are also others who do not use it because they are afraid, ”says Jean-David Mora.
“The idea is to reassure people. And to make the service accessible, both thanks to the distribution of eDog scooters in the agglomeration – via authorizations for temporary occupation of the public domain (AOT) to be signed with the town halls – and in terms of pricing, with degressive formulas, minutes offered each month or adapted rates (students, unemployed, seniors, etc.).
NO PARKING
Located near Darwin, on the right bank, the start-up currently has eleven employees: mechanics (“dogdoctors”), maintenance managers (“dogtrainers”) or optimization in the streets, usually at night or in the early morning, the distribution of scooters in authorized parking areas (“dogsitters”). In Bordeaux, for example, it will be prohibited and even impossible to park the scooter in the middle of the Place de la Victoire. On the sidewalks? The QR Codes affixed to the two-wheelers allow non-users to quickly notify the teams for an intervention.
“We made commitments and we will keep them,” says Jean-David Mora. The final countdown is launched before commissioning. In the meantime and throughout the month of October, Bordeaux residents will surely come across the eDog in the streets for the final test phases with ambassadors. For barking at startup, the suspense remains.