Ready or not, China, once known as the bicycle kingdom, is in the midst of a cycling revival. While the car has rapidly displaced bikes, we now see more than a dozen startups flooding into the dockless bike-sharing arena. Investors have taken their sides in the stiffening battle, but a more pressing question is which […]
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Tech Bolsters The Last Mile–Fireside Chat with Mobike’s Joe Xia
The golden days of free rides may be over, but the two-year long rivalry is survived by bike sharing–analogies drawn between the transportation wars that recently ended and the bike-sharing battle now going at full-throttle, are abundant. While Mobike’s CEO Wang Xiaofeng comes straight from Uber’s Shanghai office, one of the chief backers of OFO […]
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Didi May Be Ready For Bike Sharing, But What About The Rest Of The Nation?
Didi-Uber, China’s newly minted transportation tycoon, has revealed intentions to append a bike sharing service to its hefty platform, as it pours tens of millions of U.S dollars in strategic investment into dockless smart bike company Ofo. The ride sharing company has no trouble divining a future where bike sharing becomes the latest installment on […]
