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Foxconn Offers Electric Car Rental Service In China
Taco Cowboy writes: Foxconn plans to expand its electric-car rental business in ten more cities in China. Since starting the business in Beijing last year, they have launched similar services in Hangzhou and Changzhou. Another business in Guiyang will open with 100 electric vehicles in July. The service is activated through an app, website, or WeChat platform, and customers will be able to use the car with a QR code. The vehicles come equipped with internet connectivity and warns drivers of low battery and shows the nearest charging stations. The company is also working on a platform for the operation of new energy vehicles saying: "Foxconn's telematics devices have also entered BMW's supply chain, and the company is also shipping 17-inch in-car displays to Tesla. Additionally, Foxconn has also teamed up with China-based Chery to supply the automaker with digital dashboards, telematics devices, wireless charging boards and vehicle safety systems."
lithium and heavy metal poisoning go together with Alice's Mad Hatter and mercury.
Da*g! Taxicab companies are fighting wrong enemy. Uber is not their enemy.
Their enemy the airports of the world who will start providing service of picking up a passanger from home with automatic electric recheargeable vehicle as well as delivering the passenger from their home to the airport.
Automated electric autonomous airport shuttle service!
Predictable routes, access charging stations in the airports, availability of precious parking, Uber-like on demand and capacity planning of logistics, absence of unions, can become a very profitable business for the airports. Add on top of that transparent pricing, not exactly favoured by human airport taxi drivers and many people will prefer automatic taxicab.
As such Taxicabs WILL be competing with automated cars.
Difficult to tell who will be operating: airports themselves or they will out-license to companies such as Avis or Herz, but car rental companies, such as Foxconn, armed with new technologies, will change the landscape in the most innovative ways. After the most lucrative (widely known secret) airport transportation business is skimmed, the business model will be expanded to the rest of the taxi business.
Would try in Nanjing.
--Jim (me)
People have been predicting for years that self-driving cars will cause car ownership to plummet, as renting a car becomes cheaper than owning one. But that is not what Foxconn is doing. They are just renting normal electric cars. You still have to drive them. This doesn't really compete with taxis. It just competes with gas powered rental cars. It isn't even news, since they have been renting electric cars for a few years already. They are just expanding to some additional cities.
People might benefit from Lithium. Lithium is used to treat bipolar disorder, depression and it acts by increasing serotonin synthesis. The effect would be somewhat similiar to that one of Prozac, which is fluoride based medication.
The Problem is that In US there are already significant amounts of flourides added to the drinking water and effect similar to that of the Lithium is achieved, thus it is not quite clear how two medications can improve health.
Fluorides can also improve hardness of the population teeth, too.
Face it, Uber is like Silk Road. Taxis are subject to laws and licenses, and Uber tries to bypass all that.
It's a website designed to permit systematic criminal transactions.