[TECHinAsia] GrabTaxi hits at Uber Svc in SG with GrabCar
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GrabTaxi hits at Uber in Singapore with launch of premium service GrabCar
Raring to go from raising its biggest funding round to date – US$15 million led by GGV Capital – GrabTaxi is now accelerating its expansion in Singapore with the launch of its Uber-esque GrabCar service here.
Through data gathered by the team since GrabTaxi was launched locally last year, there are still pockets of time when the demand for taxis is not fully matched by supply – especially during peak hours, according to Anthony Tan, founder and CEO of GrabTaxi. GrabCar is their solution to this problem, allowing them to meet the demand without taking away business from their core user base of taxis.
“The inclusion of GrabCar as part of the GrabTaxi service [...] offers them [customers] access to a wider network of taxis as well as premium cars,” says Tan. “ [GrabCar] will give our passengers that personalised experience, while at the same time, ensuring quick, safe and reliable rides.
” To book a cab, all passengers need to do is select ‘GrabCar’ as their ‘car type’ in the GrabTaxi app.
See: Why GrabTaxi is giving Singapore’s largest taxi operator a run for its money
http://www.techinasia.com/grabtaxi-eat-comforts-lunch/
The launch of their premium service in Singapore is a direct challenge to Uber’s presence here. While GrabTaxi currently has the second largest fleet of cab drivers locally, it remains to be seen if they can replicate their performance with luxury car hires.With already-high car prices steadily increasing locally, GrabCar’s service might just be what citizens need. According to Lim Kell Jay, general manager of GrabTaxi, the aim of GrabCar is to provide passengers with the perks of car ownership, minus the hassle – and certainly, minus the cost:
We deliver you from doorstep to doorstep so that you don’t have to worry about parking and the changing driving conditions in Singapore – simply leave the driving to us. Also, speed remains our biggest priority – backed by the same promise as GrabTaxi, we are working closely with our partners to ensure we have sufficient quality drivers to back the demand.
Across the region, the GrabTaxi mobile app has been downloaded 1.5 million times, and they claim to have about 270,000 users per month.
Comfort, Singapore’s largest taxi company, has around 16,600 cabs plying the road. GrabTaxi has 10,000 registered drivers now in the country, making it the second largest ‘taxi operator’; and it’s rapidly signing up more drivers -
Grabcar and Uber will enhance the entry of foreign drivers, which will ultimately learn and get a grab of our passenger transporting system, it will also act as a backdrop of future replacement of TDs as our pool of TDs are aging and retiring. We, the current TDs will face further challenge from these private car transportation due to our govt continueous greed in corporate taxation and thereby allow them to operate here, a small top economy country. What and how will these impacts us as taxis driver of Singapore in near future is something to think of, and the day whereby your intake start to decrease, it should be the day whereby the foreign invasion had successful overtook us. There is simply not much we can change the situation as we are not offensive peoples, but we can change ourselve to match them by being better in our discipline, our services and our fares
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Pirate Taxi also can get funding ...
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last weekend i've already witnessed a private plate Alphrad with leasing logo going into taxi stand @ upper circular rd to jio pax ( jap tourists )
another is rws...those PA vans driver jio tourists in the taxi Q. ( offering 30 bucks to per any location )
would be seeing more of these happening situations...wat can td do ??? haiz!
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You mean private car can go into taxi stand to jio passengers???
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Dare to hiong , can ...
You dare ?
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Dare to hiong , can?Meaning it's to an offence for hionging??
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Tia gong got another new app "hallo" joining the fun soon,
any1 got news about this new app?
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You just need $50 to register a business in singapore, more apps is in a way, advantage to cabbies and paxs. That's why I want to get bro keethechange to join me on a apps business before it become saturated, but that si gina $50 also dun have..phuixxx...we will thinking of giving a condo away for the best call taker
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Originally posted by bowah:
You just need $50 to register a business in singapore, more apps is in a way, advantage to cabbies and paxs.
That’s why I want to get bro keethechange to join me on a apps business before it become saturated, but that si gina $50 also dun have..phuixxx…we will thinking of giving a condo away for the best call taker
U can borrow $25 to that Si Gina xin lor....
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Knn, I want to be operation manager, you all say cannot leh.....
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Originally posted by Keepthechange666:
Knn, I want to be operation manager, you all say cannot leh.....
he want to give you a title of CEO leh
Cin Eng One
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Originally posted by Keepthechange666:
Knn, I want to be operation manager, you all say cannot leh.....
Smlj operation mgt, ti ti go casino..should put you as chief security guard -
Before grab and easy, there are already alots of apps, just that these apps did not push further and more localised without much support. Mostly are designed and created by locals si ginas. Grab, uber, easy are external source penetrating into Singapore taxi industrial, or better put it, passenger transportation industrial, so they have experiences and success in other countries before they enter the Singapore Market basically due to Sing dollars
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Originally posted by bowah:
Smlj operation mgt, ti ti go casino..should put you as chief security guardKnn, fund management mah.....
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Casino Fund sibo...that one even bangala also know how to manage lah
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thought in SG you need TDVL to drive taxi? private cars better not get caught.. fine or jail..
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Welcome to Uber. Laws play with word, and most indian are very good at it. That is why there are lots of indian lawyers around, no being discriminating, they are good in twisting and turning with good words knowledge, once a wise old indian lawyer told me, Indian can think 5 things at a go. And that is also why Silicon valley are taking indian programmers, same goes to our Chennai Business Park. Just a twist of noun, GrabCar and GrabTaxi hold the different that do not valid any laws
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i see.. yeah there's always loopholes in the law.. no word is absolute!! anyways, can earn more $$ is better..
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$$ to grab, not earn, grab meaning, no need to work for it, earn meaning u hv to work to earn it. So, the system is set to grab, be it grabcar or grabtaxis, you hv to work for it to earn, as for the grab, the companies who set it up, will grab it out of your labour
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Oh no... more competition liao. But don't think grabcab n uber will succeeb in sg market
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Long ago, I also thought I will not succeed as a Taxi driver..but knn...now a professional taxi driver liao
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Why today all like old thread?....
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7 months mah, revisit old cemetary, ancestor...