According to the information shared on the subject, Karsan Autonomous e-ATAK carried passengers on a 5-kilometer route for 1.5 years on the Michigan State University campus in the USA. Autonomous e-ATAK, which has been carrying ticketed passengers in open traffic since 2022 in Stavanger, Norway, expanded its existing route with a route that includes a tunnel at the beginning of this year. Karsan, which has launched autonomous projects at 7 different points with Autonomous e-ATAK, which started operating in Finland after the USA, Norway, France, Romania, and Turkey, gained 80 thousand kilometers of autonomous driving experience and carried over 30 thousand passengers. In addition to these, Karsan, which has also signed the airport autonomous project in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, will perform airport transfers with autonomous vehicles with 2 Autonomous e-ATAKs to be delivered by the end of 2024.
Delivery in December
Adding a new one to these projects, Karsan is now preparing to put the Autonomous e-ATAK on the roads in Switzerland. The Autonomous e-ATAK, which will provide service in Arbon, one of the historical cities of Switzerland, will be delivered to the city by Karsan in December. As of January 2025, it will start carrying passengers under Arbon’s public transportation operator Eurobus Ostschweiz AG.
Karsan CEO Okan Baş said, “We continue to transform the transportation infrastructure of the world, especially in Europe, with our electric and autonomous vehicles. With the work we do outside our main target markets, we provide services with our own brand in a very wide geography from Japan to the USA, from design to production, from sales marketing to after-sales.”
