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  • Today,

  • bright yellow commuter bicycles appeared on the streets of Seattle,

  • rentable for just $1 an hour.

  • They come from a $2 billion Chinese startup called Ofo,

  • which is hoping the rollout will give them an American toehold

  • in the global bike-sharing market.

  • Dexter Thomas reports from the company's home base in Beijing,

  • where low-cost bike-sharing is ubiquitous and big business.

  • Zhang Jincheng is a maintenance worker.

  • He works for Ofo,

  • the biggest company in a new wave of bikeshare services.

  • Most bikeshare programs around the world use docks to collect and dispense bikes.

  • But with Ofo,

  • you can leave your bike anywhere you want.

  • And if you see an Ofo bike you wanna use,

  • you just scan a code with your phone, unlock it, and take off

  • for about 15 cents an hour.

  • This kind of bike-sharing is new in China,

  • but it's already becoming indispensable.

  • Ofo was created in 2014 by college students at Peking University.

  • It didn't expand off-campus until last November,

  • and just eight months later,

  • Ofo was the biggest bikeshare company in the world.

  • Ofo now operates in 150 cities, including a few outside of China,

  • and it claims to have more than 100 million users

  • who make 20 million bike trips per day.

  • Thousands of new yellow bikes roll off the line every day,

  • just to meet demand from Ofo.

  • The original way of using bike is not that convenient.

  • If there is a bike that people can access anywhere in the city at a very low cost

  • and can return with a very good convenience,

  • then people must love it.

  • Zhang Yanqi is a COO of Ofo.

  • He used to work for Uber,

  • and joined the company last November when they expanded off the college campuses.

  • Chinese tech giant Ali Baba has poured millions into the company,

  • and Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the company's headquarters earlier this year.

  • How many people do you have actually registered on the platform?

  • It's over 100 million users.

  • It's a big number.

  • But in China, we have 1.3 billion, so we still have some way to go, but

  • Okay, that's one way of looking at it, alright.

  • In a way,

  • this is a return to the culture that made China the so-called bicycle kingdom.

  • In the bike's heyday,

  • there were more than 500 million bikes in the country,

  • compared to roughly $370 million today.

  • Dr. Rong Jian is the Director of the Beijing Traffic Engineering Association:

  • But Rong admits there have been a few issues with the bike boom:

  • When you can leave a bike anywhere,

  • people tend to leave them everywhere.

  • Sidewalks and public walkways in popular areas often get completely blocked off by bikes.

  • And in some areas,

  • there have even been reports of hundreds of bikes being thrown into massive piles.

  • In fact,

  • Ofo had a trial run at the University of California San Diego,

  • but the university kicked them out

  • partially because people were parking the bikes all over campus.

  • But they still have high hopes for Seattle.

  • The goal here is that we're gonna go to over 20 countries by the end of this year.

  • We wanna unlock every corner of the world,

  • and we wanna provide a bike for people to use anytime, anywhere.

Today,

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Ofo的新自行車共享計劃很像合法的自行車盜竊(HBO)。 (Ofo's New Bike-Sharing Program Is A Lot Like Legal Bike Theft (HBO))

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    David W. T. Yeh 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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