France
Clermont-Ferrand
100% virtual stations with racks and totems
8
Cities currently operating
Cities currently operating
12,460
Bikes in active service
Bikes in active service
10,7M
Rides since launch
Rides since launch
4
Countries
Countries
The challenge
Capital-wide mechanical system, one of the highest rotation rates per bike in Europe. The tender called for a service that would fit local topography, weather, and ridership patterns — not a catalogue product dropped on the map.
Elevation and wind
Dock-based system
Harsh winters
Sub-zero operations required
Three authorities, one UX
Unified app, billing, and fleet balancing
The strategy
We selected a 100% virtual-station architecture to avoid costly civil works across three municipalities, and paired it with physical totems and racks at high-traffic nodes to keep the system legible to first-time users.
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4,000 of 5,300 bikes are electric, prioritised on routes with elevation over 20m. Winter operations are sub-contracted to a local partner with a proven Baltic track record.
Rebalancing data
The most operationally significant finding was around elevation-aware deployment. Our predictive model, trained on the first six months of GPS trip data, correctly identified the Chetre–Waasaz corridor as a net-downhill commuter flow in the morning and net-uphill in the evening. We now pre-position 18% more e-bikes at the coastal end of this corridor at 07:00, reducing redistribution runs by 3.4 per day.
Battery degradation in the Baltic winter was our second concern. At -12°C, PBSC cells lose approximately 22% of nominal range. We compensate by lowering the minimum deployment threshold from 40% to 30% battery state, and by positioning the depot van routes to prioritise sub-35% bikes before 06:30. Fleet uptime in December 2024 was 97.2% — above contract SLA.
Results
+18%
Cycling modal share
vs. pre-launch baseline
2.3M
Car trips replaced
first 18 months
99.4%
Fleet uptime
2025 avg.
6.1
Rides per bike/day
peak season
*Monthly mechanical fleet rides vs electric fleet average from 2022 to 2026.
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