Groupe Renault - 2020 Universal Registration Document

189 GROUPE RENAULT I UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2020 02 OUR SOCIETAL COMMITMENT GROUPE RENAULT GROUPE RENAULT: A COMPANY THAT ACTS RESPONSIBLY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS RENAULT AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF RENAULT ON APRIL 23, 2021 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The department's ambition is to bring the various players together around these issues, through ambitious, strategic partnerships. It is positioning itself as the favored partner for cities, local authorities, regulating authorities and transport operators. The aim: to promote mobility for consumers and meet regional environmental, social and economic challenges. Groupe Renault's ambition is to invent new forms of mobility and new ecosystems, not only in urban areas, but throughout the regions, to benefit suburban areas and to promote improved access to rural areas in France and worldwide. This approach is part of Groupe Renault’s industrial culture, which has always endeavored to innovate and be one step ahead. It also involves the development of new occupations and the entry into unexplored, sustainable market segments. According to the UN, in 2050, the global population will reach 9.8 billion people, with almost 70% living in urban areas compared to 55% today, representing 2.5 billion additional city dwellers. This forecast gives an indication of the immense challenges to be faced in terms of quality of life, inclusion, urbanization, housing, transport and healthcare in cities, as well as accessibility to these new forms of mobility outside of cities. In terms of mobility, new uses and new technologies are spreading, questioning the place and status of individual cars ownership. The market is increasingly being structured according to uses of consumers, who are looking less for ownership of a vehicle, than for a multimodal, innovative, connected, more ecological offering suited to the diversity of their needs. The city of the future will be smarter, more inclusive, more connected and more collaborative. Vehicles that are clean, silent and shared will travel through it. Personal vehicles will share the road in the cities, as well as in rural areas, with new forms of services based on usage: car-sharing, carpooling, on-demand vehicles (chauffeur driven vehicles, taxis, etc. ) as well as robot vehicles. As a sustainable mobility operator, and no longer just a carmaker, Groupe Renault is working to develop a vast range of shared and environmentally-responsible solutions: car-sharing, on-demand transport, short-term rentals, and carpooling. Today in Europe, several car-sharing services operated by the Group’s partners use Renault electric vehicles, and Groupe Renault is the leader in electric car-sharing in Europe . As such, nearly 10,000 electric vehicles are available to users of car-sharing services in most European capitals. The Group adapts its offer to the context of each city, offering both free-floating and closed-loop solutions. Among the different types of car-sharing, the trend is towards free-floating which enables the user to park the vehicle wherever he/she wants to, within a defined region. This is one of the options chosen by Groupe Renault. Thus, the Group operates a car-sharing service under the Zity brand, through its joint venture with the Spanish group Ferrovial, with a fleet of 725 ZOE in Madrid since 2017, and 500 ZOE in Paris since May 2020. The Zity service operates with a very strict health protocol, reassuring for customers looking for a personal mode of transport during the COVID-19 health crisis. The Group has also developed a short-term rental service – Renault Mobility – which enables Group vehicles to be rented. The Renault Mobility offering uses the Renault network. In France, Renault Mobility offers vehicle rentals directly at dealerships and also has 2,000 cars accessible 24 hours a day through a mobile application. Furthermore, Renault Mobility also enables companies to develop employee car-sharing to optimize the utilization rate of their fleets. The Group has also forged partnerships with brands such as Ikea and Leroy Merlin in order to offer the service to their customers. Today, Renault Mobility is also available in Italy for the Renault network replacement vehicle program, and the roll-out is underway on other European markets. Finally, the Group also offers a white-label car-sharing service, marketed under the Glide brand. The car is already electric and connected: tomorrow it could also be autonomous, with the benefits of smoother, more fluid traffic and improved safety. The development of autonomous cars and shuttles will accelerate the growth of electric, autonomous and shared mobility services. They will promote complementarity between modes of transport, multimodality and make the overall system cleaner, safer, more accessible, more effective and more efficient. From 2017 to 2020, Groupe Renault, together with public and private partners, has tested electric, autonomous and shared mobility services delivered by autonomous Renault ZOE Cab prototypes: TORNADO project in Rambouillet : testing of autonomous driving P solutions, technologies and infrastructures in sparsely populated areas. Testing took place along a 13 km route illustrating the scenario of a direct link between Gazeran station and the Bel Air business park in Rambouillet, representative of the specificities of suburban and rural areas; Rouen Normandy Autonomous Lab : first testing in Europe of an P autonomous, shared and on-demand mobility service on open roads, as an extension to the existing public transport service. The tests were carried out on three routes serving different stopping points throughout the district known as “Technopôle du Madrillet”; Paris-Saclay Autonomous Lab : testing of services for more P intelligent, electric, autonomous, shared and on-demand mobility, in addition to the modes of transport present in the Paris-Saclay area. The aim was to test a point-to-point mobility service for everyday travel on the Paris-Saclay urban campus. Groupe Renault is continuing its research into autonomous mobility and is participating, via the SAM (Safety and Acceptability of Driving and Autonomous Mobility) consortium coordinated by the PFA – the French automotive platform – in the EVRA (Autonomous Road Vehicle Testing) project launched by ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) as part of the Investing in the Future Program (PIA), which is at the heart of the national strategy for the development of autonomous vehicles. Its objective is to contribute to the development of security validation methodologies, to improve knowledge on uses, acceptability and societal impacts. Groupe Renault’s work will consist in particular of testing on-demand, electric, autonomous and shared car services, such as collective public transport and private public transport, in Rouen city center and at Paris-Saclay.