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Magna Partners with May Mobility on Self-Driving Shuttle
Canada’s Magna International is teaming up with May Mobility, an Ann Arbor Mich.-based startup, to deploy and test self-driving shuttle vans.
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Canada’s Magna International Inc. is teaming up with May Mobility Inc., an Ann Arbor Mich.-based startup, to deploy and test self-driving shuttle vans.
Under the agreement, Magna’s Troy, Mich., custom build center will retrofit and assemble May Mobility’s self-driving transit vehicles with its own autonomous vehicle systems, including sensor integration and drive-by-wire technology. Magna also will install custom doors, a panoramic glass roof and make other modifications.
The micro-transit electric buses can carry about 10 people and have a top speed of 25 mph. May Mobility conducted a pilot test of the original design last autumn in Detroit.
Earlier this year, the one-year-old startup raised nearly $12 million in seed funding led by the venture capital units of BMW and Toyota. Co-founded by CEO Edwin Olson, chief operating Officer Alisyn Malek and chief technical officer Steve Vozar, May Mobility’s team has experience at Ford, General Motors, Toyota, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Michigan.
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