Scaling fast, planning flexibly

The challenges posed by this project were as extraordinary as robotaxis. Beyond entering our new market Croatia, we had to master the core challenge of matching the pace and precision of an industry building its future from scratch. Accordingly, our leasing solution needed to get to grips with Verne’s scale-up dynamics, requiring us to flexibly reorganize our milestone planning as necessary. In other words, Verne sought for a partner able to respond swiftly to a tight development timeline while delivering a facility tailored to the complex technological requirements of their product. That is, it had to support the prototyping, testing, and eventual serial production of their driverless urban mobility solutions.

Technical complexity, sustainable delivery

On the technical side, the facility needed to be designed as a built-to-suit solution. This included accommodating the specific spatial and functional needs of EV assembly, such as open production halls with enhanced load-bearing floors, technical rooms for battery integration and testing, advanced ventilation and pre-installed infrastructure for high-voltage charging and autonomous system diagnostics. Given the pace of development, VGP had to adopt a fast-track permitting and execution model, organizing weekly coordination meetings between our technical team and Verne’s team and facility engineers to ensure design precision and execution reliability.

With sustainability hard-wired into our identity, these challenges had to be mastered while guaranteeing highest environmental performance.