共享單車的世界

2018/4

TIME magazine's report

The shared bike market in China seems booming but it also shows a turning point now.

Only the top two operators survive. It is due to the support by Tecent and Didi Chuxing separately.

The third one BlueGoGo has left the market with much liability.

Those bikes become a city problem and many of them is out of order or broken.

http://time.com/5218323/china-bicycles-sharing-economy/

The article is about the market of shared bike globally.

https://buzzorange.com/techorange/2017/08/01/share-bike-in-the-world/

The article is about V-bikes that comes from USA.

It came to Taiwan market in Aug 2017 and left Taiwan Market in April 2018.

The revenue is very limited and the regulation is tough in Taiwan. It is why it failed.

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E4%B8%8D%E5%88%B01%E5%B9%B4-%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%AB%E5%96%AE%E8%BB%8Av-bikes%E6%92%A4%E5%87%BA%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3-225235183.html

As of this February, there are 77 bike-sharing providers in China (of which 20 or so have shuttered their businesses), with 23 million shared bikes on the streets.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-chairman-our-job-is-to-protect-a-free-and-open-internet/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2018/01/26/after-bike-sharing-explodes-in-china-local-authorities-now-move-to-clamp-down/#21fdd3f3712e

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2017/06/20/worth-1-billion-but-whats-really-driving-chinas-bike-sharing-boom/#61c27b11427e