Diess tweeted that nowadays cars are only used for one hour per day, which is not fully utilized.
If these household cars were used as shared cars, the usage time could reach up to two hours.
And if these cars were used for renting purposes in a fleet, the usage time would increase to three or four hours per day.
Finally, Diess said that the potential of rental companies in the future is enormous. This actually fits in with Volkswagen’s plan in the “NEWAUTO 2030” strategy. Volkswagen will realize profits by managing leasing services of car fleets. In the earlier “ACCELERATE” strategy, Volkswagen officially stated that it wanted to accelerate to become a “software-driven mobile service provider.”
Not only Volkswagen, even Ma Yilong has expressed that he wants to do “mobile travel solutions”, which is somewhat in line with the idea of Robotaxi. In the end, they all want to compete with Didi, Uber, and even freight companies.
The future of travel methods sketched by major car companies is becoming clearer: working and entertainment in the car, fully automated driving, no need to have your own car, and forever smooth traffic. Of course, we should be full of imagination, so there should be new communication modes based on carpooling.
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