
Purpose-built for the job
A taxi designed from the ground up: a separate driver cabin behind a full partition, step-free access with a ramp, cameras, a server-monitored alcohol interlock and room for luggage, bikes and skis.
Move people. Move the world.
One group that designs the vehicle, builds the platform and operates the fleet, with its own cars, its own app and drivers on salaried contracts. First markets: the United Kingdom and Europe, from 2028.
Mobility infrastructure · ClimateTech · Embedded FinTech · Impact by design
Our name is our purpose. ETIOCA stands for Electric Transition Is Our Call to Action: moving city transport to clean, safe and fair mobility, and building a whole ecosystem around it.
Every generation was shaped by the crises of its childhood: wars, depressions, pandemics. ETIOCA is building the first mobility system in which every car, every working day, supports children. The generation that grows up with it should have more security than any before it.
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The ETIOCA Productive Mobility Infrastructure Platform is an official nominee of the 2027 Edison Awards in the Transportation, Aerospace and Flight category. The Edison Awards have honoured innovation since 1987. Finalists will be announced on 11 February 2027.
Today's taxi market is fragmented: cars owned by drivers, apps owned by platforms, safety left to chance. ETIOCA brings the three together under one group and one standard, so a city gets a fleet it can rely on and a passenger gets the same safe ride every time.
Its own taxi service, fleet and app, with every trip dispatched to the nearest car.
Transport funds · cities · car makersElectric-first vehicles, three shifts a day per car and a circular vehicle life.
Climate and ESG funds · EU and UK innovation programmesWallet and payments built into the app, ready for stablecoin settlement.
FinTech investors · banksA children's programme funded by the fleet, salaried drivers and step-free access.
Impact funds · family offices · foundationsDigital screens on the roof and in the cabin, moving through the city all day.
Media investors · advertisersA GDPR-compliant stream of mobility data and insights from every car.
Cities · telecoms · data investorsA fleet of real, productive assets with recurring cash flows.
Banks and lenders · leasing · project financeDrivers employed with a guaranteed wage, holiday pay and a pension, instead of gig work.
Governments · labour organisations · ESG
A taxi designed from the ground up: a separate driver cabin behind a full partition, step-free access with a ramp, cameras, a server-monitored alcohol interlock and room for luggage, bikes and skis.

Booking, payment, in-ride services, on-board screens and the on-board shop run on ETIOCA's own software. Each trip goes to the nearest car, and the platform produces a stream of mobility data and insights in line with GDPR.

ETIOCA owns and runs its fleet. Drivers are employed, not gig workers, and each car is shared by three shifts for up to 20 hours a day. More than 100,000 driver jobs are planned from 2033.
ETIOCA Holding (Gibraltar) Limited leads the group. Intellectual property is licensed down a single chain, and each region is run by its own operating company and website.

Mark Ishakov begins to develop the idea: a taxi system in which the vehicle, the platform and the operator belong together.

With the business model and the vehicle concept complete, ETIOCA is registered in Gibraltar to build the prototype and turn the idea into reality.

The vehicle is modelled, engineered and hand-built as a functional prototype in Turin.

The first prototype is presented to partners and guests in Turin.

The functional prototype is unveiled at a press conference in Milan.

A road show across Europe and the United Kingdom, meeting cities, ministries, operators and drivers.

Negotiations with a leading global car maker for series production of the ETIOCA vehicle.

ETIOCA (UK) Limited is incorporated in England and Wales as the UK operating company.

Planned start of operations in the United Kingdom and in Europe, beginning with Benelux and the Baltic states.

I have spent ten years building ETIOCA. We are looking for partners, not just capital.
Mark Ishakov is an engineer and inventor with 30 years of experience in the IT industry and in patents.
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ETIOCA is an official nominee of the 2027 Edison Awards (Transportation, Aerospace and Flight) for the ETIOCA Productive Mobility Infrastructure Platform.
In his column “The Maestro's Aesthetics” in CAR GRAPHIC, one of Japan's leading car magazines, Giorgetto Giugiaro dedicated a whole instalment to the ETIOCA taxi, the project he and his son Fabrizio joined on the production side.
In the column, Giugiaro recalls the New York taxi project he joined in 1976 and asks why, half a century later, cities still lack transport built around what passengers actually need. He presents ETIOCA as the project that is finally closing that gap: an electric taxi with modular seating and step-free wheelchair access, screens that can carry public-service and city information, cabin disinfection after every ride, battery swapping, and its own fintech for transparent payments. What struck him most, he writes, was how broadly the founder understands the taxi: the technology, the vehicle and its production, the system around it, and its place among citizens, authorities and the city.
“What is new about this vehicle is not only its design: it proposes an entire ecosystem for public transport, including billboard services and fintech.”CAR GRAPHIC
“I believe the direction this project is heading is the right one.”Giorgetto Giugiaro