[Music] [Music] Well, we Carson is focusing on the future technology in our operational area which is urban transportation and we implement all the new possible future technologies in our products and we want to be one step ahead from our competition. We want to be the pioneer in implementation of these three technologies and so far we have been successful and this journey is not a single journey that will stop at one point. It's a continuous journey and we're trying to make it happen throughout the life of our company also in the future.
First of all, we believe in partnerships. We don't uh commit to do everything by ourselves. We believe in partnerships.
We believe in creating synergy. We believe in making one plus one not two but three, four, five. sometimes and Adastc is this type of project.
We are a strong urban mobility provider. The buses we produce are one of their kinds and to equip this with uh an autonomous software. We use we partnered with Adas who is very strong in this area and has been investing and focusing on this area.
So these two forces come together and first we did caratak four years continues working together. Now we have the second bus which is 6 m. Both have both will be very successful in the market and will make the difference.
We are ahead of everybody in the market. Now this is all with partnerships because also in the different uh markets we partner with the strong players of this market and we partner and make also synergy there like in Romania like in Japan Japan is also we are partnering with one of the in UK as well in UK as well everywhere we are partnering we're choosing our partner first and we dedicating ing the market uh to this partner enforcing it with our products and our central marketing force comes the results. In just 7 years we have come to 700 units per year this year which is an incredible result.
We started with 67 now in seven years we can sell 700 buses. Next year it's going to be more. Now the good thing is these products are going to be solutions for the problems of public transportation, city transportation because in the big cities especially in Europe there is a big driver shortage.
in Germany only by 20 uh 35 there's going to be 80,000 drivers shortage and a lot of inefficiencies because the big buses railway transportation all costs a lot and these are used also in very low traffic late night hours very early in the morning so this is all cost to these transport operators to uh be a solution is autonomous. They believe in this and they put also strategic targets. We are working together with the operators with the regulators because there is also a regulation side.
We need to first they need to first set up the regulations for these type of vehicles to be run in the city. So these are all going very fast because there is a need in the bottom and this need is going to be uh fulfilled not very long time not from because people are still talking of sometimes 5 years 7 I don't believe in this it's going it's coming up in maybe 2 3 years we will see more number of autonomous vehicles in specific cities in China they have already started maybe you know in China in the big It is there are big pilot projects running. Today we are centered in our Bura factory but of course there will be when there will be need different potential business models can be studied.
This will be always in our agenda. I believe I don't see I don't say but I I know there there will be some tenders real tenders for medium numbers of vehicles for the big operators in Europe and this will be not later than 3 years I would suppose Europe India we don't know now because for example Japan was not in our list but it came out with a pull by our Japanese partner.
