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Curb and Uber partner to make taxis available to Uber app users

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Curb, a ride-hailing app for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North America, announced the execution of a strategic partnership agreement with Uber that will enable Curb-connected drivers to receive trip requests from Uber users.

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Daimler’s moovel acquires mytaxi and RideScout to consolidate presence in mobility services market

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Daimler’s integrated mobility service company moovel GmbH ( earlier post ) has acquired a 100% holding in Intelligent Apps GmbH, the operator of the popular mytaxi taxi booking app. Launched in 2009, mytaxi is the world’s first app to enable direct connections between taxi users and taxi drivers. Earlier post.

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TUM CREATE introduces tropical megacity e-taxi prototype at Tokyo; super-fast charging with twin charge ports

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Singapore-based TUM CREATE unveiled an electric taxi prototype designed for tropical megacities, codenamed EVA, at the Tokyo Motor Show. EVA was designed from the ground-up as an e-taxi and is a result of interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy storage, battery charging, thermal management, and lightweight materials and design.

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BMW, Daimler moving ahead with mobility services JV following US greenlight

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On their urban journey, customers will move through a seamlessly connected and sustainable ecosystem that combines CarSharing, Ride-Hailing, Parking, Charging and Multimodality from a single source and is available with just a few taps. Ride-Hailing with mytaxi, Chauffeur Privé, Clever Taxi and Beat: A total of 15.9

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Toyota and Nishitetsu begin full-scale operation of multi-modal mobility service “my route” in Fukuoka City and Kitakyushu City

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my route provides shop and event information while enabling users to search, book, and pay for transport, and offers integrated mobility functions that can be completed with a single app. s Motaku taxi booking service. The project will also be expanded to include the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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The acronym CASE is the name given to the specific area of strategy at Mercedes‑Benz Cars that focuses on the future-oriented issues of “connectivity”, “ autonomous driving”, “sharing” and “electric drive systems”. Earlier post.). The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first.

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BMW Group and Daimler AG agree to combine mobility services into new JV

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The partners intend to offer their customers a holistic ecosystem of intelligent, seamlessly connected mobility services, available at the tap of a finger. Together, the BMW Group and Daimler AG plan to grow this new business model sustainably and enable rapid global scaling of services.

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