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BYD and Uber sign a deal for 100,000 new electric cars: Good for BYD, but Great for Uber

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
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Global auto markets were rocked by a recent agreement between Uber, the global ride-sharing app, and BYD, a Chinese electric vehicle brand that is now the world's largest EV manufacturer and exporter.

While BYD will surely benefit through its partnership with Uber, the extra 100,000 vehicles in the first phase of the agreement with Uber represents only a modest percentage increase in BYD"s global sales.

Far more important is how this agreement will transform Uber. BYD is the most vertically integrated motor vehicle company today, and earns very high marks for vehicle quality and reliability, which will keep its cars on the road instead of in costly repair shops. The cars are fast-charging, with long-lasting battery life. And BYD can produce at far lower costs than non-Chinese carmakers.

This all adds up to Uber now able to create new markets as fast as BYD delivers cars to put on the road.

Resources and links:

Uber and BYD Partner to Accelerate Global EV Transition
https://investor.uber.com/news....-events/news/press-r

BYD to unleash 100,000 EVs globally with its new partner, Uber
https://electrek.co/2024/07/31..../byd-unleash-100000-

Uber and BYD partner to introduce more EVs to global markets
https://www.automotivedive.com..../news/uber-byd-ev-pa

Uber, China’s BYD, form partnership to deploy 100,000 EVs in EU and Latin America
https://apnews.com/article/chi....na-uber-byd-ev-5c45f

BYD press release
https://www.byd.com/us/news-li....st/BYD-and-Uber-Part

Rocky Mountain Institute (2018) Ride-Hailing Drivers Are Ideal Candidates for Electric Vehicles
https://rmi.org/ride-hailing-d....rivers-ideal-candida

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Despite easing inflation vehicle repair costs soar
https://www.minneapolisfed.org..../article/2023/despit

Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation
https://apnews.com/article/aut....o-insurance-inflatio

New Car Price Trends in 2024 (August Update)
https://caredge.com/guides/new....-car-price-trends-in

Closing scene, Yingwuzhou Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan, Hubei province

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago  

The Ghana government should have signed a deal with Kantanka Motors to be the premier provider vehicle for the ride-sharing boom in Ghana. This will have grown Ghana automotive industry, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs for the jobless Ghanaian youths.

The Nigerian government should have signed a deal with Innoson Motors to be the premier provider vehicle for the ride-sharing boom in Nigeria. And with Nigeria having the largest population on the African continent and still growing, this will have created millions of jobs for jobless Nigerian youths, and will have grown Innoson Motors immensely.

But as always Black people our taste and desires are for those things which are foreign because we believe it is better and luxury.

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Baka Omubo
Baka Omubo 3 months ago

How do we make our cars like Kantanka, Innoson, Nord Motion more affordable?

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

@Baka Omubo: Lower the prices

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

@Baka Omubo: Lower prices. Reduce the prices, where the average citizen can afford to buy the car.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

@Baka Omubo: Most people who buy cars, especially new cars, tends to be in higher incomes households in Africa, which are the very few in our population, 1%-10%. Katanka, Innoson, Nords Motors should be focus on making low cost, affordable cars that targets the low-income household in our population, which is the majority. Research, shows that car ownership increases employment. Car ownership promotes employment opportunities and job searches are enhanced by reliable transportation. For example, car ownership may serve to reduce the physical isolation from potential educational opportunities and potential employment opportunities. Having a car leads to better educational and employment opportunities and outcomes. Kantanka, Innoson, Nords Motors, should focus on making low cost affordable vehicles that targets the low-income households because it has shown that vehicle ownership and/or having a good reliable transportation system increases educational and employment opportunities within the population.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

BYD’s high quality, low cost electric vehicles will be all over Africa in the next couple years.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

With the population boom in Africa, especially the young population boom in Africa, China is not about to loose the billions to trillions of dollars it can generate in Africa with their BYD electric vehicles.

With BYD’s high quality, affordable, low cost and low maintenance vehicles, and with the huge young population in Africa, China is about to make billions to trillions of money in Africa

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 3 months ago

This is not an endorsement of China, This is to show the mindset of a people who wants to build and be a superpower and those who are content and wants to be consumers at the bottom of the totem pole.

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