Uber`s next idea is carpooling Taxi Times Update 9-19-2014

What is new in the taxi world? Our ‘Update’ summarizes the news of the last days and hours. We recommend using a website-translator because some links can be in foreign languages.

Message of the day

New carpooling service is illegal: In California, Uber and Lyft are not allowed to continue offering a service where two individual passengers pay separate fares to share one car. Despite this decision, Lyft won´t stop. This remembers the uber-strategy in Europe.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/lyft-will-expand-carpooling-service-in-california-even-thoug#3lp8qzj

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/09/12/california-threatens-to-shut-down-ubers-paid-carpools/

 

 

quality

Hamburgs taxidriver were tested: the tv-journal “markt” tested six taxidrivers from Hamburg with a positive result: 5-1 for the good ones. The video is spoken in german language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=minXXseqSkU&feature=youtu.be

 

Quote of the day

“If Travis Kalanick is Al Capone 2.0, are you then his governor in Germany?”

Taxidriver Clemens Grün from Hamburg to Uber Germany CEO Fabien Nestmann during a recent conference organized by the Blacklane app.

 

Competition

Discussions with Uber in Berlin: for the first time Uber CEO Germany and the president of the German Taxi-association BZP were face to face during a conference in Berlin. Many German newspapers reported ‘emotional discussions’.

http://www.wsj.de/nachrichten/SB11828383211784233876504580159922746878004?mg=reno64-wsjde

http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article132367826/Chauffeurdienst-Uber-legt-sich-mit-einer-ganzen-Branche-an.html

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft/mobilitaetskonferenz-in-berlin-showdown-der-taxi-duellanten,10808230,28441142.html

https://blog.blacklane.com/en/mobility-transition-heated-debate/

 

In opinion suryeys taxis win: the „Zeit“ weekly magazine „Zeit“ the company Puls carried out independent opinion surveys about Uber and Taxis. The result: Uber is not very popular in Germany.

http://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2014-09/uber-umfrage-fahrdienst-taxi

http://www.presseportal.de/pm/114146/2831409/im-zweifel-taxi-repraesentative-umfrage-uber-contra-taxi

 

The German automobile club ADAC denies cooperation with Uber: Customers with an ADAC-creditcard get bonus points for using their creditcard to pay Uber-Pop trips.

https://www.taxi-times.com/uber-bonuspunkte-fuer-adac-mitglieder/

 

E-Mobility

Comeback of Renault Fluence Z.E.: Renault’s electric car ‘Fluence’, which disapeared from the European market, is heading for a new life in China.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/15/renault-sa-electric-car-idINL6N0RG30L20140915

 

Car

New Face for Peugeot 508: The new 508 comes with a brand-new engine line-up.

http://www.auto-medienportal.net/artikel/detail/27840/#image86780

http://onlymotors.com/new-peugeot-508/

 

New taxi-app

New Yorks taxi-women: ess than 3 percent of the city’s about 115,000 licensed taxi, livery and limousine drivers are women. An app called SheTaxi wants to locate taxis with a female driver.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/App-helps-women-in-NYC-find-taxis-driven-by-women-5756647.php