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Revolut is offering Polish transit tickets in its app

Revoluts head of Growth in CEE just reported on Linkedin that they are selling Polish transit tickets in their app.

Revolut seems to be banking on (hah!) acquiring users from mobility markets, just like FREENOW has done earlier.

Several PTAs in Europe have a long time wanted to solve “roaming for transit”, that customers should be able to use the same app for transit across regional and national borders. This is a great idea, but is hard in practice for PTAs because it requires new regulations and aligning on building one app for all across borders instead of one each.

Revoluts move represents an opportunity for PTAs - letting private actors engage each PTA to sell their tickets can allow for innovation simplifying the customer journey for people finding transit hard to navigate.

Waymo lifts the lid off both its production and accident risk, showing promising peer-reviewed data

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have an easy job. They have to interpret their surroundings to avoid accidents, and not end up blocking ambulances, run red lights, and injure bicyclists or pedestrians. That’s why it’s very encouraging that Waymo is sharing peer-reviewed research showing data that their solution has significantly lower accident risk than human drivers based on an analysis of 56.7 million miles:

• For crashes where any injury was reported, human drivers were involved in about 4.04 incidents per million miles. Waymo vehicles had just 0.85 incidents—almost 80% fewer.

• Crashes that led to airbag deployments occurred at a rate of 1.69 per million miles for humans, compared to just 0.32 for Waymo (an 81% reduction).

• The most serious crashes (those involving suspected serious injury, classified as K or A by police) happened at a rate of 0.24 per million miles for human drivers, while Waymo reported just 0.04—an 85% drop.

In other Waymo and AV news, their blog shows them manufacturing and upfitting of Jaguars, showing them scaling up their fleet for new launches. AVs and especially Waymo are having a momentum.

BYD 5-minute charging documented by western outlet

BYDs new charging system has been reported by several outlets, and is now documented and confirmed by InsideEVs in this video. Their 1000 volt system seemingly outperforms systems from other top-performing OEMs such as Lucid. The video shows that charging with two plugs is done from 5 - 50% in less than 5 minutes. According to this outlet, Chinese OEMs are racing to compete with BYDs new features.

BYD already has 500 of megawatt chargers in China, and are aiming for 4000. This has the potential to change the Charge-Point-Operator property game, since charging in time can mean less waiting time and perhaps less willingness to spend more time buying things when the car is charging. In time, this might mean a shift back towards a gas station model, more focussed on convenience in stead of shopping or restaurants as we see in developed countries such as Norway.

Another implication is that this potentially could kill the case of ICE cars once and for all, when electric cars now are becoming both cheaper in purchase price, operating costs (fuel and maintenance is lower priced on EVs), when range is becoming comparable and charging time now becoming minimized.

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