Cheaper than bikes: Chinese car-sharing platform GoFun’s Shenzhen prices start at just 16 US cents per kilometre

Celia Chenin Shenzhen
Fuzhong Road in the Futian district of Shenzhen. A new vehicle sharing service was launched in the city, with prices lower than bike sharing. Photo: Roy Issa

A Chinese carmaker has launched a vehicle sharing service in Shenzhen by offering a special deal on rental prices that works out cheaper than bike sharing. 

GoFun, a car-sharing platform backed by state-owned Shouqi Group, said has put 300 new energy vehicles into service in the southern Chinese city, considered to be China’s Silicon Valley. 

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