Drive Lean,Live Life
Long traffic jams, narrow streets, insufficient parking spaces.
In our overcrowded urban life, is today's infrastructure really sufficient?
Are comfort and convenience the only things needed for transportation in city life?
As a front-runner in the transportation industry,
We have been committed to creating a future of transportation that is rooted in people's daily lives.
The new concept of personal transportation is filled with excitement: it is more efficient and environmentally friendly, providing a smoother and more adaptive way to get around the city. It enables you toconnect directly with anyone passing by to allow for new encounters.
We aim to create a richer urban lifestyle facilitated by new relationships between people, vehicles, and society, and hand it over to the next generations.
We are a one-stop solution provider for the transportation ecosystem of the future, from developing, manufacturing, and selling vehicles to after-sales care and even handling the disused cars.
Ourmission
Redefine the future of urban transportation
by building a new relationship
between people, vehicles, and society
ContextInnovation in the vehicle classification
to solve issues of urban
transportation.
- Average vehicle occupancy
- 1.3People
- Average vehicle seating capacity
- 4.0People
The average four passenger car carries an average of only 1.3 passengers. This physical redundancy of vehicles is one of the factors contributing to issues of urban transportation such as traffic congestion, parking, and CO2 emissions. As a fundamental solution to these challenges, Lean Mobility aims to downsize the vehicle to create an efficient, environmentally- and people-friendly urban transportation system.
productRideRoid, developed from the ground up, takes you on a city journey.
Lean Mobility has developed a new category of compact urban EVs named RideRoid. Its first model, Lean3, features a two-seater*, full-viewing passenger cabin equipped with an air conditioner, while being approximately one third the size of a passenger car**. The state-of-the-art sensing and control technologies create a safe and invigorating driving experience. Its lean body with less environmental impact facilitates more casual detours and communication with surrounding people, bringing both convenience and a richer experience to urban dwellers.
** In Japan, it is allowed to accommodate one person in accordance with the mini-sized motor vehicle category.
Active Lean Technology controls the suspension and steering to optimize the lean of the vehicle while moving. It provides a stable ride and an invigorating cornering experience even while making turns or driving on rough surfaces despite the compact vehicle size.
*Category: L5
**Category: Mini-sized motor vehicle (in Japan)
- Dimensions/Seating capacity
- Overall length/Overall width/Overall height
- 2,470 x 970 x 1,570 mm
- Wheelbase
- 1,800 mm
- Tread
- 850 mm
- Minimum turning radius
- 3.6 m
- Riding capacity
- 2*or 1**
- Driving system/performance
- Drive system
- Rear wheel motor drive
- Battery
- Lithium iron phosphate battery
- Battery capacity
- 8.1 kwh
- Charging method
- AC 100V: approx. 7 hours
AC 200V: approx. 5 hours
(tentative under development) - Maximum range per charge※WLTC class1
- 100 km
(tentative under development) - Top speed
- 80 km/h* or 60 km/h**
- Features
- Air conditioner
- Equipped
- Car seat
- Attachable (ISO-FIX F2X compatible)
(These specifications are subject to change due to ongoing development.)
CommitmentLeading the future of transportation by providing one-stop service.
Through collaboration with various partners, we aim to provide services that offer a more comprehensive customer experience, including not only product development and production, but also purchase, after-sales, and resale. In addition, we intend to adopt a direct sales model to establish a direct connection with users. Committed to value creation based on users' needs, we seek to contribute to innovation in the transportation industry as a whole.
OurJourney
- 2022Lean Mobility was established.
Lean Mobility was founded by Akihiro Yanaka following his career at Toyota Motor Corporation. Various specialists in the transportation business successively joined the company.
- 2024It raised 2.8 billion yen in funding as a Japan-Taiwan alliance and started preparing for mass production.
The company raised a large amount of funding as a startup based on a partnership between Japanese and Taiwanese businesses. A production system for mass production is under development through extensive cooperation with a number of companies in Japan and abroad. The company is further accelerating its business activities, including product development, mass production, and sales preparation.
- 2025It will spur its development toward a product launch in 2025 with the goal of producing more than 50,000 vehicles.
There is a large demand for mobility that is not met by existing products, such as redundancy and maneuverability in automobiles and safety and comfort in motorcycles. Thus, the potential market is expected to amount to approximately six million vehicles.
Starting with its launch in Taiwan, the company is looking to expand into the Japanese and European markets. The goal is to produce more than 50,000 vehicles by the fifth year.
OurTeam
Our team includes specialists with a wealth of knowledge and experience in various aspects of the mobility business, including the characteristics of the manufacturing ecosystem, marketing and sales, and verification of the social implementation of compact EVs.
- Founder & CEOAkihiro Yanaka
Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1993 and joined Toyota Motor Corporation.
After working on development work such as chassis design and driving control systems, he was in charge of planning new concept vehicles and research and development of urban transportation systems.
His involvement in numerous concept car development and demonstration projects led him to have a growing interest in compact mobility; he planned and developed the TOYOTA i-ROAD, which was demonstrated in Tokyo, Grenoble, and other cities. He also led the product development of compact mobility series including C+pod and C+walk. In 2022, Yanaka founded Lean Mobility.
Investor& Partners
Investor
冠和投資*
鴻裕投資開発**
東立物流股份有限
* Subsidiary of Lioho Machine Works, Ltd.
** Major shareholder of Tai Yue Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd.
Partners
Hiring
Join us in creating the next generation of transportation in the midst of the changing times.
We look forward to having you as a passionate team member who will enjoy navigating, learn from, and strive to meet challenges without definitive answers.
