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Dronamics Collaborates with Leading Industry Innovators, Part of New EU Future Mobility Taskforce

Dron­am­ics, the world’s first car­go drone air­line with a license to oper­ate in Europe, announced recent­ly, it has become part of a select group of com­pa­nies to launch the Euro­pean Union (EU) Future Mobil­i­ty Task­force, reports a press release. This is a strate­gic ini­tia­tive to advise the EU’s lead­er­ship about glob­al trans­port inno­va­tion. 

Based in Bul­gar­ia and led by the beard­ed entre­pre­neur Rangelov broth­ers, Dron­am­ics is set to become a glob­al leader in the car­go drone mar­ket. The com­pa­ny joins forces with 16 of Europe’s most influ­en­tial pri­vate mobil­i­ty com­pa­nies includ­ing Lil­i­um, Volo­copter, Cab­i­fy and Bolt.

The Task­force aims to address “key chal­lenges faced by inno­va­tors in the mobil­i­ty sec­tor, with the view of advanc­ing the strate­gic objec­tives of the EU and Europe’s com­pet­i­tive­ness in advanced mobil­i­ty,” explains the release.

Adi­na Vălean, Com­mis­sion­er for Trans­port, wel­comes the ini­tia­tive. She said, “In a dynam­ic meet­ing with 16 CEOs and Founders of Europe’s top pri­vate mobil­i­ty uni­corns and star­tups, we delved into the needs of our trans­port inno­va­tors and explored ground-break­ing ini­tia­tives like Drone Strat­e­gy 2.0 and future Hyper­loop reg­u­la­to­ry frame­works.”

Vălean con­tin­ued, “The EU is boost­ing finan­cial sup­port through Hori­zon Europe clus­ter 5 and EIT Urban Mobil­i­ty. The Euro­pean Inno­va­tion Coun­cil, with a EUR 10 bil­lion bud­get, is call­ing on trans­port entre­pre­neurs to apply.”

Ini­ti­at­ed by Bolt and Cab­i­fy, the Task­force shares a com­mon goal to intro­duce new solu­tions to meet increased con­sumer demand and to make mobil­i­ty more sus­tain­able, afford­able and con­nect­ed. 

Adi­na Vălean

The release explains, “Com­mon chal­lenges include out­dat­ed and frag­ment­ed reg­u­la­tion, lack of enforce­ment, mar­ket entry bar­ri­ers, access to finance, and data acces­si­bil­i­ty. Europe now faces the cru­cial chal­lenge of ful­ly lever­ag­ing next gen­er­a­tion solu­tions along­side exist­ing ones and scal­ing these inno­va­tions on the glob­al stage.”

Svilen Rangelov, Co-Founder and CEO of Dron­am­ics, remarked, “Mid­dle-mile deliv­er­ies by car­go drones have a sig­nif­i­cant poten­tial for the Euro­pean as well as the glob­al econ­o­my at large, enabling faster, cheap­er and green goods mobil­i­ty, key to advanc­ing the Euro­pean Commission’s Sus­tain­able and Smart Mobil­i­ty Strat­e­gy.”

A pri­ma­ry goal of the Task­force is to inform and pro­vide guid­ance to EU pol­i­cy­mak­ers for the next leg­isla­tive man­date. The Group’s first mea­sure is to be a com­pre­hen­sive report that “encap­su­lates the col­lec­tive insights and rec­om­men­da­tions of its mem­bers, which will be pre­sent­ed to Com­mis­sion­er Vălean in the Spring of 2024.”

This is viewed as “a sig­nif­i­cant step towards shap­ing a future where Euro­pean inno­va­tion in mobil­i­ty is not only sus­tained but also accel­er­at­ed, ensur­ing Europe’s con­tin­ued lead­er­ship in glob­al trans­port inno­va­tion.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.dronamics.com

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/mobility-strategy_en

(Top image: Dron­am­ics)

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