Grab secures $300m to expand presence in South-east Asia
Grab has received $300 million to further accelerate its expansion in South-east Asia.
Justin Leverenz, senior portfolio manager at Invesco – the company which has put up the cash - says the investment will support Grab in its “bringing more everyday services, greater accessibility and convenience to users in South-east Asia”.
Earlier this year, Grab began working with property developer Sinar Mas Land to deploy electric scooters in Indonesia and to help strengthen BSD (Bumi Serpong Damai) city’s posi
July 9, 2019
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Grab has received $300 million to further accelerate its expansion in South-east Asia.
Justin Leverenz, senior portfolio manager at Invesco – the company which has put up the cash - says the investment will support Grab in its “bringing more everyday services, greater accessibility and convenience to users in South-east Asia”.
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Renault and Waymo are hoping to establish an autonomous mobility service between Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport and La Défense, a business district in France’s capital Paris.
Valérie Pécresse, president of the Paris region, says the service could “play a key role for the mobility of Île-de-France inhabitants, tourists and therefore for the international attractiveness of our region, which is investing €100 million to develop the infrastructure on which autonomous vehicles will operate.”
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Swedish company Voi has launched its electric scooters in Lisbon as part of a wider ambition to expand in Europe.
In addition to Portugal, the company says it plans to bring its e-scooters to Italy and France over the coming months.
Frederico Venâncio, general manager of Voi Portugal, says Voi riders in Sweden have travelled more than 450,000km in Stockholm, and the company expects to see similar growth in Portugal.
“Although we want to expand rapidly, we want to do it in a sustainable way and in line
The preliminary programme of the 22nd ITS World Congress is now available online, with details of all sessions, speakers, social and associated events, as well as the 30-plus demonstr4ations which have been planned for the congress in Bordeaux.
ISS Europe and CitySync, specialists in detection and ANPR solutions for the ITS market, will use the ITS World Congress to showcase the Jet-Aludra which incorporates an IR ANPR camera, colour overview camera and an on-board processor. This cost effective Intelligent ANPR camera processes images at the time of capture, so smaller packets of information can be transferred via wireless 3G or wired connections to a central server for review or directly to a police back office facility, matching against hotlist