Drop suspected into the carpool market, carpool business seems to finally "good luck near"

In the taxi call the car market with the success of the death of the rest of the King's drop to kill into the bus market, this large half year has successfully stirred the pool of water enough "muddy." Now, still immersed in the car subsidy of the busy drip and have a new appetite, and this time is the new business is the drop of the CEO Cheng Wei May 2014 mentioned the online car carpool.

Since two of the suspected "drip" app interface screenshot outflow, the legendary car-pooling business seems to have finally "good luck near."

According to the screenshot, the drop of the app interface has a "carpool" entrance, which is located at the location of the Beijing headquarters.

A drop of insiders told reporters that the drip is indeed doing carpool app, the two screenshots are likely to be from the drop inside. "We (carpool business) is really going online." ”

And the industry is rife with news that drop-by-car business is likely to be launched in the next few weeks, the business will be merged in the original Drip app, with taxis, special cars as a drop in the third business, but the last name should not be called "carpool."

In fact, the carpool market has gathered a lot of enterprises. As early as the various types of carpool software appeared, many large community sites appeared on the private carpool call posts. Today's market has been from a AA carpool, downwind, such as the representative of the PC side of the carpool website to the car-carpool software.

For drop into the car market, 51 car CEO Li Hua soldier performance is not surprised, "the sooner or later will come."

Although the drop has not yet been acknowledged, but the news is widely circulated that the drip is ready to put hundreds of millions of of the money for carpool subsidies and marketing, hope to soon open the situation. At the same time, after the Spring festival in 2015, several carpool apps have increased their subsidy efforts. Compared to the previous subsidy of a few yuan to more than 10 yuan, recently there has been a subsidy of more than 20 yuan or more.

From the use of the process, the current carpool application is not complicated. After entering the carpool software for a simple registration, and then enter the starting point and end point, the carpool software will real-time match the car information on the way, and the driver will immediately receive "on the way" of the carpool call. If the passengers on the bus are willing to carpool, they can take orders. The car-pooling software will set the basic cost according to the distance, and the passenger can add the tip like the taxi software.

Statistics show that in 2014 the number of car-pooling apps was more than 20 and the financing amount was more than 200 million dollars. Among them, 51 use the car to obtain lei (Angel Investment), Innovation Workshop, Sequoia Capital investment; every day by car also obtains the innovation workshop, the Sequoia Capital investment; clicks carpool to obtain the IDG financing, the slight carpool successively obtains the tricycle financing.

In 2015, the industry was interpreted as a year of rapid development of carpool application, the policy of "loosening" is the main reason for the rapid development of this market.

January 1, 2014, Beijing, "the guidance of the joint travel of small passenger cars," the official release of the joint and illegal operation to make a distinction between the consent of the parties to reasonably apportion the corresponding costs, to allow the two sides of the carpool reasonable sharing of oil and high-speed tolls.

Transport Minister Yang also publicly said in 2015, "carpool market is worth supporting, for car owners, a person to ride a car waste, for passengers without cars, and people carpool is a great convenience." ”

"(drop do Carpool) welcome, there is always competition, or (see) The strength of their own." The market is changing every day, and it's hard to tell. "Every day with the car founder Gong said.

Li Hua also admits that the current carpool application is still in the stage of nurturing users. "(subsidy is) market behavior. Group buying site There was no obvious difference, but the final competition is the implementation of the power, efficiency, and of course, financing capacity. ”