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Partnership to offer Renault connected car insurance

Telematics provider Scope Technologies and French insurer Amaline Assurances, the direct insurance division of Groupama, are to collaborate to provide Renault’s electric car, ZOE, with an in-built Usage Based Insurance (UBI) solution for the French market. Scope Technologies’ adaptable software and data analytics will provide Renault’s R-Link multimedia system with comprehensive UBI technology to equip ZOE’s computer and app systems with a tailored UBI product. Scope’s technology facilitates the proces
March 31, 2017 Read time: 1 min
Telematics provider Scope Technologies and French insurer Amaline Assurances, the direct insurance division of Groupama, are to collaborate to provide 2453 Renault’s electric car, ZOE, with an in-built Usage Based Insurance (UBI) solution for the French market.
 
Scope Technologies’ adaptable software and data analytics will provide Renault’s R-Link multimedia system with comprehensive UBI technology to equip ZOE’s computer and app systems with a tailored UBI product. Scope’s technology facilitates the process of driver data analysis from ZOE’s on board computer and enables Amaline and Renault to offer an in-built connected car system. It will allow customers to access discounts on their insurance premiums of up to 36 per cent, based on analysis of their driving behaviour directly from technology in their ZOE vehicle.

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