Just 12 months after raising fundraising to manufacture its portable electric motor, Temo delivers the 1000th unit.
TEMO, whose 450 electric outboard took top honours in the DAME R&D Excellence in Adversity Award last year, has delivered its 1000th unit and is now on the hunt for dealers all over Europe.
One year after announcing a €600,000 fundraising to manufacture what it bills as the first portable and electric powered outboard, the French, Nantes-based start-up has just delivered its 1000th TEMO, an ultra-light and compact electric boat motor. With this 1000th unit on the market, and a claimed customer satisfaction rate of over 96% and a customer care issues rate of less than 2%, Temo says solid foundations are in place to accelerate the company’s development in France and Europe.
The TEMO motor was designed in Nantes by the start-up and manufactured in Carquefou by the industrial accelerator Axandus. The desire for local production has been at the heart of the specifications since the story’s beginning.
“We wanted a product that would participate in carbon-free boating while respecting a very short supply chain. Thus, 70% of the product’s cost is sourced within a 100km radius of Nantes,” explains Alexandre SEUX, the company’s founder. “Thanks to this local production, we can carry out quality control on 100% of the products before they are shipped. This allows us to have a very low rate of after-sales issues (less than 2% of products delivered) and a very high satisfaction rate (96% of our customers would recommend TEMO to a friend).”
Despite a very local process in production, the company has big ambitions for its international market. Justine Perussel, partner and commercial director at TEMO, explains: “In 2020 and 2021, our export sales already represent 15% of our market share, and this without having made any major commercial efforts outside of France. The good results we have in France are now encouraging us to accelerate strongly in new markets.
