Foxconn Offers Electric Car Rental Service In China 20
Taco Cowboy writes: Foxconn plans to expand its electric-car rental business in ten more cities in China. Since starting the business in Beijing last year, they have launched similar services in Hangzhou and Changzhou. Another business in Guiyang will open with 100 electric vehicles in July. The service is activated through an app, website, or WeChat platform, and customers will be able to use the car with a QR code. The vehicles come equipped with internet connectivity and warns drivers of low battery and shows the nearest charging stations. The company is also working on a platform for the operation of new energy vehicles saying: "Foxconn's telematics devices have also entered BMW's supply chain, and the company is also shipping 17-inch in-car displays to Tesla. Additionally, Foxconn has also teamed up with China-based Chery to supply the automaker with digital dashboards, telematics devices, wireless charging boards and vehicle safety systems."
Lithium is this Gens "Mad Hatter" (Score:2)
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lithium and heavy metal poisoning go together with Alice's Mad Hatter and mercury.
Lithium is not particularly toxic. It occurs naturally in seawater, and it is a necessary trace element for human life. Most people would benefit from having a little more in their diet and/or drinking water, and their have been proposals to add small amounts to drinking water to improve health.
Most people would benefit? (Score:3)
People might benefit from Lithium. Lithium is used to treat bipolar disorder, depression and it acts by increasing serotonin synthesis. The effect would be somewhat similiar to that one of Prozac, which is fluoride based medication.
The Problem is that In US there are already significant amounts of flourides added to the drinking water and effect similar to that of the Lithium is achieved, thus it is not quite clear how two medications can improve health.
Fluorides can also improve hardness of the population
Taxi cab companies are fighting the wrong oponent (Score:2)
Da*g! Taxicab companies are fighting wrong enemy. Uber is not their enemy.
Their enemy the airports of the world who will start providing service of picking up a passanger from home with automatic electric recheargeable vehicle as well as delivering the passenger from their home to the airport.
Automated electric autonomous airport shuttle service!
Predictable routes, access charging stations in the airports, availability of precious parking, Uber-like on demand and capacity planning of logistics, absence of u
Re:Taxi cab companies are fighting the wrong opone (Score:4, Interesting)
People have been predicting for years that self-driving cars will cause car ownership to plummet, as renting a car becomes cheaper than owning one. But that is not what Foxconn is doing. They are just renting normal electric cars. You still have to drive them. This doesn't really compete with taxis. It just competes with gas powered rental cars. It isn't even news, since they have been renting electric cars for a few years already. They are just expanding to some additional cities.
Uber is Silk Road for Taxis (Score:1)
Face it, Uber is like Silk Road. Taxis are subject to laws and licenses, and Uber tries to bypass all that.
It's a website designed to permit systematic criminal transactions.
Just a little more towards the west, please! (Score:2, Troll)
Would try in Nanjing.
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Why "troll"? I live in Nanjing. It's west of the cities mentioned in the article, and in the same province as many of them. I have a Chinese driver's license.
I'll reiterate: "Would try in Nanjing."
The only problem... (Score:1)