At present, the attitude of most cities to sharing motorcycles is not encouraged and is not expressly prohibited.
Editor’s note: This article is from “Interface Technology”, Reporter | Ke Xiaobin.
Recently, according to many Hangzhou residents, the shared motorcycles on the road surface in Hangzhou are gradually disappearing and being cleaned up by relevant departments. Shared motorcycles mainly provide travel needs of 3 to 5 kilometers.
Unlike the disorderly delivery of shared bicycles, the government has been cautious about the industry, so that the shared motorcycle is always tepid. A local resident of Wuzhou, who is not willing to be named, said that most cities currently do not encourage the sharing of motorcycles and are not expressly prohibited. “This is also the ceiling of the shared motorcycle.”
The “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Internet Rental Bicycles in Hangzhou (Trial)” issued in 2017 clearly states that the development of Internet rental electric vehicles is temporarily prohibited. However, this regulation will be implemented until September 30, 2018. After the deadline, no new regulations or regulations will be introduced.
Similarly, according to the latest “Wuhan City Non-motor Vehicle Management Measures”, shared motorcycles must be registered in the traffic control department, and registered in the transportation department, signed a management commitment with the local transportation department, clearly placed The quantity, the delivery area, etc. can be operated on the road.
This is the attitude of most cities to sharing motorcycles, but there are exceptions. In August this year, Kunming plans to cancel the restrictions on sharing motorcycles, and plans to launch 6000 vehicles for public use. It is worth mentioning that in September this year, the “People’s Travel” official electric vehicle project was launched in Beijing. The need for business travel within 10 km is solved by electric vehicles.
The above-mentioned unwilling to be named industry insiders said that it was because of government supervision that this track was not the same as sharing bicycles. Over-delivery and competition, there is no fierce price war, this is also a good thing. But in reality, this is still a fully competitive market. Take Changsha as an example. At present, there are players such as Street Rabbit Motorcycle, Dangdang Travel, Youshi Smart Car, Enjoy Riding Bicycle, Harbin Moped and other players.
And according to the front of the motorcycle business line related sources to the interface news reporter revealed that in early 2017, ofo started the motorcycle project, and successfully produced the sample car, but because the drop ofofo shared motorcycle will drop The main business network has been hampered by the impact of the car. “In 2018, after one year of work, the project was shut down, and most of the colleagues have left.” In January 2018, according to several media reports, Didi’s shared motorcycles were launched on-line and planned to be in three. The city is on the line.
In June of this year, Didi released an internal mail about the restructuring of the two-wheeler organization, DidiThe Traveling Bicycle Division (internal codename “Haicang Bay”) and the Motorcycle Division (internal codename “Black Horse”) were officially integrated and upgraded to the two-wheeler division (internal codenamed “Hippo”).
“Shared motorcycles need to be parked at a fixed point, so its operating cost is much lower than that of shared bicycles. There is no need for too much plating cost.” The industry insiders said that the price of sharing electric vehicles is about 4 yuan. The number of rides per motorcycle is about 6 times a day. After deducting the battery dispatching cost (about 5 yuan a day) and charging cost, this is still a profitable project.
Before, the head of the Harbin trip said in an interview with the media that the current Haro bicycle has already returned to the profit. In the absence of new vehicles, the bicycle is the most profitable department of the whole company.
According to the data provided by Harbin Travel, the daily average demand for two-wheeled electric vehicles in the country exceeds 700 million times, and the demand and volume are more than three times that of the bicycle market. As of the end of August 2019, Harbin assisted vehicles have been stationed in nearly 260 cities, with a total riding mileage of 2.149 billion kilometers and an average length of about 22 minutes.
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