Volkswagen invests {EUR}300m in Gett taxi app

摘要

A true heavyweight in the conventional global automotive business, Volkswagen last week said it has made a strategic $300m investment in Gett - formerly known as GetTaxi - so as not to get caught out by a now much-tipped fundamental change in future on-demand personal transport, a fast-emerging new market best typified today by fast-expanding Uber In recognition of the view that in automotive terms, and personal mobility in particular, the future may not look like the past, Volkswagen has chosen to hedge its bet by obtaining a toehold presence in what some visionaries see as the fastest growing people mobility concept. These upcoming smartphone-based on-demand systems are judged capable of revolutionising overnight the world's taxi business, effectively turning the taxi and minicab world as we know it upside down.