Mercedes Gave Up On Taxis, Now It Wants Back In As BYD Circles

Mercedes is chasing the taxi trade it abandoned over slim margins. Its share of new German taxis fell from 45 percent to eight. BYD is undercutting everyone and gunning for four-figure sales. Mercedes-Benz once owned Germany’s taxi trade, serving as the default supplier for the country’s nearly 17,000 operators before walking away over thin margins. Now it has changed its mind again, reopening the door to the cab business as it rethinks strategy and tries to slow BYD’s push into the sector. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); } }); Read: Mercedes Taxi Sales Collapse By 71%,…

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