Our Philippine correspondent, Harold, pointed out recently that seven out of the Top Ten Best Selling Cars in the Philippines is a Toyota, which helped the Japanese carmaker conquer 39.3% of the total vehicle sales in the Philippines last year.
Recently, we wrote about the worrying statistic that in London alone, Uber drivers are allegedly responsible for one sexual assault a week. In our neck of the woods, Uber and Grab are also not entirely free from scandal nor have escaped headlines linking their drivers to misbehaviour, violence and sexual assault. (Riders misbehave too, of course, but that’s for another article.)
Just a few short weeks ago, during the recent South East Asian Games, pedestrians around KL were greeted with yet another obstacle when hundreds, or may be even thousands, of bikes were left around the city, after a new bike-sharing service commenced.
No, this is not an abstract painting, but what 10,000 impounded bikes look like in an impound in China. Now, the same bike-sharing schemes are coming to South East Asia, so should we be scared?
Uber has, through its brief existence, teetered from one controversy to another. Their meteoric growth is probably a part of the problem, with control mechanisms being outpaced by the rate of growth. However, in a very worrying report from the UK Police, it was announced that Uber drivers are linked to one sex attack per week, in London alone!
No sooner than we had written about the plans of Jaguar to electrify its fleet, then BMW makes a similar announcement. Apparently, by 2025, 12 of the 25 models that BMW are selling will be totally electric, and the others will all be hybrids, according to CEO Harald Kreuger.