Urban Mobility
Gurgaon: In a move aimed at offering safe last-mile connectivity to commuters, particularly women, MCG is planning to launch 1,000 app-based e-rickshaws in the city. The service is being launched by Smart-E, which is already operating e-rickshaws in Delhi. It will charge fares in two categories — sharing and individual bookings. The fare for a shared ride will be Rs
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Turo user, Ryan Cwynar, bought a used $62,000 Tesla with a no-down-payment bank loan, and make enough renting his car out that it might end up being essentially free. Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “Master Plan” tells Tesla owners that in the future they will able to add their car to a shared fleet that will “generate income for you while
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It was only a matter of time before the same forces that brought competition to the taxi industry turned their attention to the bus business. Startups like Skedaddle want to do for ride-sharing across America. Launched by a clutch of east coast entrepreneurs led by Adam Nestler, his brother Craig, Brad Werntz and Lou Harlow, Skedaddle began two years ago
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Europcar Lab and GoMore offer the ‘ownership’ of a new car and the opportunity to share with others, to reduce your costs SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Europcar Lab, the innovation unit of Europcar Group (Paris:EUCAR), the European leader in vehicle rental services and a major mobility player, announced today the launch in France of an innovative pilot with GoMore, the
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TOKYO—Uber Technologies Inc. plans to launch its food-delivery business in Japan on Thursday, preparing for a gradual rollout across a country where its main ride-hailing business is barred. Uber is introducing the service, dubbed UberEats, in Tokyo, a city where good restaurants are plentiful but their food isn’t always available for delivery. Tokyo is the 34th city UberEats has entered.
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Didi Chuxing dominates car-hailing in China, is investing tens of millions of dollars in ofo, a bikes-on-demand startup conceived two years ago on the grounds of Beijing’s prestigious Peking University as a student project, and which now bills itself as the country’s largest bicycle-sharing platform. The company founded by college alumnus Dai Wei operates almost 70,000 bright-yellow bikes and handles half a million
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If ‘Sondors’ rings a bell to you, it is probably because you’ve heard of their electric bike. The Sondors Electric Bike campaign was one of the most successful projects on Indiegogo ever. It raised over $6 million from 15,000 backers and they actually shipped the product – which is not always a given with these crowdfunding projects. We can understand why
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Aligning ridesharing with public transport systems is one of the smartest ways to help people move around the city without the need for costly infrastructure developments or owning a personal vehicle Uber has today announced that it will partner with the public transport app TripGo, allowing users to seamlessly travel on public transport with Uber acting as a way to get to or from
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From the student’s perspective, finding parking on or around campus is an absolute nightmare. From the University’s perspective, finding the money to accommodate all student-parking needs is totally unfathomable. What’s the solution to campus congestion problems? SwiftE, a university ride-sharing app for students by students – aims to reduce traffic and parking problem in the USA and help over 20 Million
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Private-equity giant Blackstone Group LP has cut a deal to pay $1.5 billion for a portfolio of logistics centers, in the latest sign that this e-commerce-driven business is one of the hottest areas in the commercial-property industry. Blackstone, the world’s largest private real-estate owner, has signed a contract to buy the 12 million-square-foot portfolio of mostly West Coast property from
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