Porsche And UP.Partners Launch Sensitive, AI-Based Startup For Vehicle Service Technicians

Porsche and UP.Partners investors have launched Sensisgo. (photo: twitter @PorscheNewsroom)

JAKARTA - A German automaker Porsche and UP.Partners investors have launched Sensigo. It is a California-based startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable vehicle service technicians to diagnose, resolve, and ultimately predict repair issues.

Sensigo said AI-based service platforms and their devices could improve repair processes for customers and technicians, while increasing service center profitability, reducing repair costs, and minimizing guarantee risk.

The company is the second startup of six mobility startups Porsche will launch in the next three years alongside UP.Partners, a company from Santa Monica that invests and builds mobility companies through affiliates UP.Ventures and UP.Labs.

The first startup of their partner, Pull Systems, was announced in March and manages the performance of electric vehicle batteries.

Apart from Porsche, UP investment partners include Woven Capital from Toyota, Alaska Air Group, ARK Invest, and others. Companies in the UP portfolio include air vehicle startups, Skydio and Beta Technologies.

In February, UP.Partners released a 2023 Moving World report, which says car manufacturers may not be able to build as many electric vehicles as they want, and consumer demand for these electric vehicles may not materialize quickly as anticipated, if governments and industries do not address and resolve a series of issues.

Among these barriers, a shortage of battery raw materials that threatens could make the government's mandate "contrary to manufacturing reality" one of the macro trends recorded in the study.

Obstacles to the acceleration of production and demand for electric vehicles in the United States include continued instability in global supply chains, inadequate vehicle charging infrastructure, and overloaded power grids, the report said, containing 120 pages.