Dear reader, dear reader,
If you are surprised at today’s post, we can only congratulate: take care! Since a nationwide holiday falls on our actual publication day this week and the author of this newsletter is particularly looking forward to his first Father’s Day, we exceptionally provide you with fresh fabric from the mobility world on Tuesday. In espresso length – but in terms of content, we hope as cheerfully as usual. Our topics of the week:
Uber is the intimate enemy of the taxi industry. The rage of the taxler could hardly stop the driver’s service provider, on the contrary: since 2021, over a remarkable sales rally, from 17.5 to $ 44 billion. Burning the money is now a thing of the past, in 2024 $ 2.8 billion profit. Do we see a real march here? Perhaps. But maybe not. Taxi drivers will no longer stop. But possibly taxis that no longer need a driver. Uber once wanted to play along the autonomous driving, but did not really believe in it and got out because of the exorbitant costs. Now, above all, Waymo is making so rapid progress that other driving services could become superfluous in extreme cases. My colleague Jonas Rest is immersed in the scene and reported of the great tremor at Uber
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Heads: Graciana Petersen ++ Håkan Samuelsson ++ Kelly Ortberg ++ Xavier Chardon
Number of the week: 19,800
19,800 people died last year in traffic accidents in the EU. For comparison: in 2001 there were still 51,400. Most recently, however, the progress was manageable, in Germany the number of deaths, according to the Federal Statistical Office, decreased by two percent to 2780 compared to the previous year. According to the test organization Decra
Should politics take over even harder: for alcohol and drugs at the wheel, but also for speed overruns and drivers with a smartphone in hand.
“We want to play Champions League and not a second league,” said Kurt Sigl to the specialist portal “Elektrauto-News” at the end of 2023. Sigl is the founder of the Federal Association of Emobility (BEM). Despite prominent members such as Kia or Mitsubishi, he no longer even plays in the proverbial lower house: the BEM HAS Insolvency registered
. Another proof of failing e-successes? In the case of the BEM, there are rather other reasons for the misery. The association had not given a good picture inwards and on the outside, Sigl was sawn off in April 2024. Before that, he and his co-board members Christian Heep and Markus Emmert have been given their hair about the orientation and financing of the association. A year later, the juice finally went out.
Come through the week well.
Your Christoph Seyerlein
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