Bolloré Group estimates 250 million to be recovered



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The mixed union bringing together the communes using the shared electric car service in Paris and the Bolloré group are returning the responsibility for the deficit.

The battle of numbers continues around Autolib ', after the termination of the service contract. electric car-sharing. The mixed union Autolib 'Vélib' – which gathers one hundred and three user communes, of which Paris, majority in its bosom -, and the group Bolloré, operator, send for weeks the responsibility of the deficit.

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In an interview at Journal du dimanche of July 29, Marie Bolloré, director of mobility group, amounted to 250 million euros the amount to be recovered from the mixed union.

Heavily deficit, the Paris service of shared electric cars, whose contract was terminated on June 21, will end at 11:59 pm on Tuesday.

"We are currently calculating the amount we will be asking in September for mixed syndicate Autolib 'Vélib', with which we were under contract " says Marie Bolloré. "It will take into account the losses we have accumulated and the costs of termination. At the end of 2017, these losses represented 210 million euros. We will take 60 million at our expense " she continues, calculating:

" We will have to recover 150 million euros, to which will be added all the contracts that one stops, the costs employees, the net book value of badets, such as charging stations. That's around 250 million.

The Bolloré group estimates the deficit at a total of 293.6 million euros, of which it accepts to support only 60 million. For its part, the union refused to pay a "disproportionate bill" .

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The space left free by Autolib 'disputed

Launched with fanfare in 2011 under the mandate of Bertrand Delanoë, the strong device of 150 000 subscribers had to face a change of ways to move, with the bike electric, the VTC and private vehicle rental. Not to mention its degraded image and its often dirty cars.

The service had however initially to make a profit of at least 56 million euros per year, but Bolloré had quickly announced a light, then a heavy deficit, triggering a audit and a conciliation procedure broken at the end of May

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For its part, the PSA group wants to launch its car-sharing service in Paris at the end of 2018, while the renter Ada and the private hire company Drivy are also preparing offers.

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