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Chinese Tech Pateo companies Yongche work with Chery Automobile to offer electric Smart-Car Ridesharing by 2016.
General view of downtown Shanghai a foggy night January 25, 2015 As China tries to promote the use of electric cars to fight against urban air pollution, two local high tech companies join Chery Automotive to build a smart electric car carpooling Photo service Reuters Aly Song.
The automotive sector is changing with the rapid adoption of connected car technologies that bring Internet to the dashboard applications and carpoolers that offer a car service via smart phones not wanting to be left behind in this evolution , one of the largest automakers in China is to team up with two local high-tech companies to provide carpoolers smart electric car services in China biggest smog shrouded cities.
The products are designed for sharing over the Internet and have no emissions, Hang Zhou, founder of the car service provider in Chinese online Yongche Inc. said in a report released Monday by the China Daily.
Pateo Corp. that manufactures wireless systems for automakers in China, joined with Yongche and Chery Automobile Co. China's largest car exporter, to form Yiqitaixing, a company that wants to become the largest electric car manufacturer in the world to 2018, 150 000 electricity cars on the road by cars and then begin to appear in the streets of China before the end of next year, said Zhou.
The plan is ambitious, involving the design and manufacture of a fleet of electric Smart cars connected to the Internet that can be booked by smartphone and help drivers navigate China often snarling traffic conditions via a wireless network Think like a Chinese version of Zipcar, first on the short-term car rental demand in the world founded in 2000, except in this case, the cars would be specifically for the new joint venture.
Pateo iVoka provide its operating system while Yongche would manage the carpool platform Pateo co-founder and CEO Freeman Shen said earlier this month his company focuses on expanding its activities beyond the telematics supply board hardware and software systems that allow cars to send and receive wireless data at 13 automakers in China, including Volvo, Volkswagen and Audi the company is currently the largest supplier of these telematics systems in vehicles China.
We hope to develop intelligent vehicles using new energy rather than traditional fuels, Freeman said earlier this month but added, We sell services, not cars.
Chery hasn t disclosed details of how the smart car Yiqitaixing would look in 2012, the company unveiled its concept of Ant car, who claimed to have Internet connectivity and cloud computing features that would be needed to make intelligent electric car the new Ant now closely resembles the Renault Twizy and could offer some advice to design the electric car planned city.
Yongche and Pateo aren t the only Chinese high-tech companies sniff out business in the domestic auto industry.
Leshi Co in Beijing announced last month that it's planning an electric car connected Internet-chip using its operating system last year, he invested in Redwood City, California, car and electrical engineering company Atieva and formed a relationship with Beijing Automotive Group Co to design and build the car giant Baidu Chinese Internet research, announced last month he will soon begin to provide its telematics platform CarLife Shanghai General Motors Co to use Chinese, Chevrolets and Buicks Cadillacs.
Chinese tech companies Pateo Yongche work with Chery Automobile to offer electric SmartCar, Chinese technology companies.