Local Motors Olli
2007 - 2022, 15 years old
A 3D-printed, electric, self-driving shuttle designed for low-speed campus and city routes.
Local Motors debuted Olli in 2016 at National Harbor in Maryland as a microtransit shuttle whose body was largely 3D-printed and whose conversational interface ran on IBM Watson. Olli 2.0 was meant to begin a Toronto pilot in 2021, but an Olli 1.0 shuttle hit a tree in December of that year and the city paused trials. The company struggled with high per-unit production costs, slow regulatory uptake, and a funding round that did not arrive. Employees learned on LinkedIn that operations had ended on January 14, 2022, with no formal press release from the company.
- Founded
- 2007-03
- Shut down
- 2022-01-14
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 15
- Founders
- John B. Rogers Jr., Mark Smith
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