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Via takes over Germany, Kakao under fire in Korea and DoorDash recommends tipping
Via takes over Germany, Kakao under fire in Korea, DoorDash recommends tipping and Uber & Lyft pay gig-workers $328M
Barak Sas
Nov 6, 20236 min read
Cruise halts while Waymo & Uber partner, Arriva sold, and Rapido expands to cars
Cruise halts while Waymo & Uber partner, Arriva sold, and Rapido expands to cars
Barak Sas
Oct 31, 20234 min read
EHang starts commercial flights, Volta bankrupt, Malta bans scooters and Cybertruck soon
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Vingroup plans to roll out its electric-taxi services in Laos later this year. Existing...
Barak Sas
Oct 23, 20237 min read
Voi €132M & EBITDA+, UK DRT <=1.77, Uber returns packages
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) published its interim report on the Rural Mobility Fund...
Barak Sas
Oct 9, 20235 min read
SIXT invests in Blacklane, acquisitions in delivery, Mercedes level-3 and Joby delivers
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 SIXT invests “significant million euro sum” in Blacklane’s €33.9M Series F round. As part of the...
Barak Sas
Oct 3, 20235 min read
Bird acquires Spin from Tier, Delivery Hero looks to sell foodpanda and EU regulation looms
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 MOIA is launching a licensing model. Offered to public transit authorities (PTA) and operators...
Barak Sas
Sep 26, 20236 min read
Getir raises $500M, Ola Electric $140M & Revel €115M; Kolors acquires Urbvan; and trouble in SF
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Kolors acquired Urbvan from SWVL for $12M in cash. Kolors and Urbvan are both Mexican players,...
Barak Sas
Sep 18, 20238 min read
Uber limiting ride-hailing & adding taxi, Cruise expanding to 15, Lavoie (McLaren) acquires VanMoof
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Gett awarded a four-year contract to operate taxi services in Israel’s main international airport....
Barak Sas
Sep 5, 20238 min read
Tough week for Cruise in SF, Vinfast on Nasdaq, Minneapolis angers Uber & Lyft and Tevva merges
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 New York will mandate all ride-hailing fleets to be electric by 2030, making it potentially the...
Barak Sas
Aug 22, 20236 min read
Bird running out of money
California approves 24/7 robotaxi in SF, Via in London, Wisk & Archer BFF Lyft reports Q2, plans to kill surge and grows ads; Russia want...
Barak Sas
Aug 14, 20236 min read
Uber profitable
(Zomato too), M&As in micromobility, Deliveroo & Gojek partner and mail-by-drone #movingpeople deep-diving into Uber’s first-ever...
Barak Sas
Aug 8, 20235 min read
Lyft looking to sell bikes
Lyft looking to sell bikes,Waymo stops trucks, Getir pulls out of Italy & Portugal and JET results Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐...
Barak Sas
Jul 31, 20237 min read
InDrive expands to the US
InDrive expands to the US, Grab acquires supply in Singapore, VanMoof bankrupt, Getir struggles and Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT ...
Barak Sas
Jul 24, 20237 min read
UberEats winning partnerships
UberEats winning partnerships, Getir struggles, Cruise on the offensive, and podcasts. Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Spare, Via...
Barak Sas
Jul 17, 20234 min read
Voi new to London
Voi new to London, NACS wins, gig-economy sues NYC Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Addison Lee acquires Green Tomato Cars,...
Barak Sas
Jul 10, 20236 min read
Via 🤝Uber, Tier ✅ England, Getir ❌ Spain, and Doordash offers per-(active)-hour pay 💵
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Via and Uber partner; Via-powered microtransit and paratransit riders can now receive their rides...
Barak Sas
Jul 3, 20237 min read
Grab layoffs, Getir leaves France, Flix ESG report and Bolt’s new scooter.
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Grab lays off 1,000 employees, 11% of its workforce. According to Grab, this is a strategic...
Barak Sas
Jun 26, 20235 min read
Uber and Tier exit Israel
Uber and Tier exit Israel, commercial flights to space start and the EU & NYC progress on gig workerRide-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT ...
Barak Sas
Jun 19, 20236 min read
Uber launches P2P carsharing, meet new micromobility ‘Today’, GM adopts Tesla’s charging standard
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Cabify and Auro have been in courts since 2019 regarding VTC exclusivity and non-compete, dating...
Barak Sas
Jun 12, 20237 min read
Waymo partner with Uber, Ford partner with Tesla, Ola Electric raises $300M, Flink raises €150M stop
Ride-Hailing & Taxi, Buses & DRT 🚙🚐 Chalo raised $45M and secured $12M in debt to digitise buses in India, bringing total funding to...
Barak Sas
Jun 5, 20239 min read
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