Hyundai and Kia invest $300m in ride-hailing firm Ola
Hyundai and Kia invest $300m in ride-hailing firm Ola
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors are investing $300 million in ride-hailing firm Ola to develop smart mobility solutions in India.
The partners will also work together to develop fleet solutions as well as electric vehicles (EV) and infrastructure.
Hyundai will work with Kia and Ola to develop cars for a ride-hailing service. Data gathered during the service operation will allow the companies to make vehicle improvements.
Ola drivers will receive various financial services including lease and instalment pa
March 29, 2019
Read time: 2 mins
1684 Hyundai Motor and 5229 Kia Motors are investing $300 million in ride-hailing firm Ola to develop smart mobility solutions in India.
The partners will also work together to develop fleet solutions as well as electric vehicles (EV) and infrastructure.
Hyundai will work with Kia and Ola to develop cars for a ride-hailing service. Data gathered during the service operation will allow the companies to make vehicle improvements.
Ola drivers will receive various financial services including lease and instalment payments.
Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO of Ola, says: “This partnership will also significantly benefit driver-partners on our platform, as we collaborate with Hyundai to build vehicles and solutions that enable sustainable earnings for millions of them, in the time to come.”
Earlier this month, Ola Electric Mobility, a company backed by Ola, raised 4 billion rupees (£42m) in an initial funding round as part of a stated %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external ambitionfalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/sections/general/news/ola-electric-mobility-raises-42m-in-funding-round/falsefalse%> to bring one million EVs to India by 2022.
Drivers who ply their trade on apps such as Uber could be under greater scrutiny as part of proposals being put forward by the UK government.
The potential risk to passengers from the explosion of ride-hailing apps, as private-hire drivers are perceived to receive less thorough vetting – for example, to flag up past convictions – has long been argued.
Incidents such as the murders of passengers by a Didi driver in China heightened such concerns - although critics point out that a US Uber driver who ad