More bus, fewer cars.
The most sustainable vehicle in a city is a full bus that comes often. Ugo helps operators run more of them.
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Transport produces nearly a quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions. Road transport accounts for 73% of that.1
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20%+
of Europeans are exposed to harmful levels of transport noise, around 92 million people from road traffic alone.2
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2035
From 2035, every new city bus sold in the EU must be zero-emission, and 90% from 2030. The bus is already going electric.3
Frequency moves people out of cars.
People leave the car when the bus is close, reliable and frequent. Operators know how to run that service. What they are missing is drivers: without them, buses stay in the depot and waits get longer.
Ugo works alongside the drivers operators already have. Autonomous buses join the fleet where drivers are missing, so the same team can put more vehicles on the road: shorter waits, longer evenings, new feeder lines.
Illustrative loop: three driven buses give a bus every 20 minutes; the same three drivers plus five autonomous buses give a bus every 7.5 minutes.
How Ugo makes transit cleaner.
- Electric first
We start with battery-electric city buses, where braking and propulsion are already electronic. EU rules are moving every new city bus to zero emissions by 2035, and Ugo builds on that transition.
- No new vehicles
Ugo is a retrofit. Operators keep the buses they already own, so nothing new has to be manufactured for autonomy.
- Smooth by design
An autonomous driver drives the same way every time. Gentle acceleration and braking are designed in, for passenger comfort, energy use and wear.
- Buses, not more cars
We automate the vehicles that move many people at once, instead of adding more cars to the street.
- Drivers stay
Operators keep their teams. Ugo adds vehicles where drivers are missing, so service can grow with the people who run it today.
What we will measure.
On every pilot route we will track energy use per kilometer, service hours added and ridership, and report them alongside the safety evidence for that route.
Claims about sustainability should come with data. We will publish ours as routes go live.
- European Environment Agency, Greenhouse gas emissions from transport in Europe (road transport share, 2023).
- European Environment Agency, More than 20% of Europeans exposed to harmful noise pollution levels, June 2025.
- European Commission, CO2 standards for lorries, buses and coaches; Regulation (EU) 2024/1610.