At $1420 per scooter, how can a operator make a profit ? If used for,
say, $2 per ride that would require 710 rides to just cover the purchase
price. Assuming 2 rides a day (is that reasonable ?) that would be 1
year, roughly. Assume corporate overhead, maybe 2 years. Just to break
even.
Peri
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Coming Soon: Electric Scooters That Drive Themselves To Charging Stations
Aug 17, 2019 Reuters.com
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KickScooter Ninebot President Wang Ye unveils semi-autonomous scooter
KickScooter T60 that can return itself to charging stations without a
driver, at a Segway-Ninebot product launch event in Beijing, China August
16, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo
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Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday
unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging statios without a
driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry
Ninebot said Uber and Lyft, the ride-hailing giants that are expanding into
scooter-sharing, would be among the customers for the new semi-autonomous
vehicles that are expected to hit roads early next year.
Gao Lufeng, Ninebot chairman and chief executive, told Reuters in an
interview that AI-driven scooters, controlled remotely from the cloud, could
radically improve the economics of scooter-sharing.
“The pain point for scooter operators is to better maintain the scooters at
a lower cost,” he said. Currently, operators of scooter sharing fleets have
to collect the machines manually for re-charging.
Formed by the 2015 combination of China’s Ninebot and U.S. transportation
pioneer Segway, the company has quietly become the largest supplier for
scooter-sharing companies such as Bird and Lime.
“I believe scooters will replace bicycles as the prime solution for
micro-mobility,” Gao said. “It’s human nature to save energy when
commuting.”
The scooter-sharing fad was triggered two years ago with the launch of Bird
in California. Venture-capital investors have since poured hundreds of
millions of dollars into the sector, and fleets of electric-powered scooters
now operate in cities across the U.S. and Europe.
Segway-Ninebot Group has applied to list its shares on the China’s new
Nasdaq-style board for homegrown tech firms, the STAR Market. The company
sold 1.6 million scooters in 2018, according to a prospectus filed in April.
Julie Wood, a spokeswoman for Lyft, said the company was always interested
in seeing the latest innovations from potential partners like Ninebot. “But
we haven’t yet made any commitments around this product,” she said in an
e-mail.
Uber did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.
The new scooters will be priced at close to 10,000 yuan ($1,420), more than
the company’s traditional scooters, which it sells to scooter companies for
$100-$300.
The new machines will start road testing next month and will be largely
commercialized in the first quarter of 2020.
The company also launched two self-driving delivery robots — one for outdoor
delivery, the other for indoor services.
Ninebot said the unmanned delivery robots will initially serve the food
delivery industry in China.
The company is in talks with food delivery operators, including Meituan
Dianping and Alibaba Group’s Ele.me, to begin service by the first half of
next year.
Reporting by Yingzhi Yang in BEIJING and Brenda Goh in HONG KONG; Editing by
Darren Schuettler & Simon Cameron-Moore
[© southfloridareporter.com]
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August 24, 2019 A video appearing to show a Tesla driver asleep while his
vehicle drove on auto-pilot has prompted criticism online.The footage,
posted on Twitter by US journalist Clint Olivier and filmed by his wife
Alisha, was filmed on Los Angeles‘ busy interstate 5 last Saturday morning
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