Hybrid gains ground in Dubai Taxi Times Update 2015-06-23

Uber driver is an employee: This was ruled by California Labor Commission last week. If it becomes precedent, it could strike a huge blow to Uber’s business model.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-employee-lawsuits-could-change-business-models-2015-6?r=US

Hybrid gains ground in Dubai: A taxi operator has added 55 more Toyota Camrys to its hybrid fleet. Overall, the company wants to implement environmentally friendlier and cheaper driving with all 7,000 of its taxis.

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/transport/20-of-dubai-s-taxi-fleet-to-be-hybrid-soon-1.1535542

Quote of the day

“With the takeover of yet more Mercedes-Benz sites, we are continuing our growth in Germany.”

Wolfram Geisler, CEO – Stern Auto GmbH

Automobile news

Dealers from China take over eastern German Mercedes subsidiaries: The Daimler Group has sold its sales subsidiaries in Leipzig, Dresden, Magdeburg, Schwerin, Rostock and two other sites in eastern Germany to Stern GmbH, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s LSH Group.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/daimler-dealerships-idUSL5N0Z537X20150619

News from Germany

From now on VdEK will only invoice electronically: Starting in July 2015, Verband der Ersatzkassen (VdEK – Association of Substitute Funds) will introduce electronic invoicing of (hospital) patient transportation in Bavaria, as reported by the invoicing service provider DMRZ.

http://www.dmrz.de/abrechnung-krankenfahrten-vdek-aok-dta-bayern-pflicht-1-7-2015.html

Taxi ergänzt den ÖPNV: Ein positives Beispiel für ein gutes Zusammenspiel zwischen Buslinien und Taxi liefert derzeit die Taxigenossenschaft Bamberg ab.

http://nachrichtenamort.de/hallstadt/anruf-linien-taxi-hallstadt-2015/

News from Switzerland

Strange result an inquiry: The attack on a taxi driver in Dornach last March has been explained: He had shot himself in the chest.

http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/basel/story/19671988

Our last words

Bad behaviour: The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers released a video showing the mayor of London on his bicycle telling a taxi driver “to fuck off and die – and not in that order”. Thats not very gentle, Mr. Johnson!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/18/boris-johnson-filmed-swearing-taxi-driver-london-uber

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