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GreenPower Motor Company Announces OEM Agreement with Autonomous Vehicle Technology Provider Perrone Robotics
Partnership will accelerate autonomous shuttle offerings for transit authorities across America VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor
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[{"type":"text","content":"Partnership will accelerate autonomous shuttle offerings for transit authorities across America\n VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) (\"GreenPower\"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero emission electric-powered vehicles, together with Perrone Robotics, a leading provider of fully autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and turnkey vehicle solutions for the mobility of people and things, today announced their Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement. Under this new agreement, the two companies will continue to build on the success of the original AV Star developed for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) in 2019. The original AV Star was developed to meet a growing demand in the transit and transportation sector where reliable mobility was a requirement to expand accessibility options for all end-users. Once deployed in 2019, the JTA AV Star became the nation's first fully autonomous, all electric, ADA-compliant, and FMVSS certified vehicle. The base EV Star vehicle is also Altoona tested and Buy America compliant.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nToday with the success of this project, GreenPower and Perrone Robotics have come together to deliver the next generation of the AV Star. Through this OEM agreement, GreenPower's EV Star, a multi-purpose, zero-emission, min-E Bus will be upfitted with Perrone's TONY® (short for \"To Navigate You\") autonomous vehicle retrofit kit, which will transform the EV Star to the AV Star. Built on the same highly rated chassis as the EV Star and combined with Perrone's reliable autonomous vehicle platform, makes the AV star one of the most transit ready vehicles capable of autonomy in the market.\n\"Through Perrone's leading autonomy solution combined with our purpose-built, all -electric vehicles, we are able to provide the industry with reliable, innovative solutions together. This is the most compelling autonomous transit solution out there, and we are honored to partner with the true industry leader,\" said Fraser Atkinson, CEO of GreenPower. \"This vehicle is going to be a market leading gamechanger, and we are looking forward to offering market-proven solutions at the national level.\nThis is an important milestone not only for Perrone and GreenPower, but the industry as a whole,\" continued Atkinson. \"As we...