An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt Women's Da'Shawn Hand Jersey , September 15, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERSKAI PFAFFENBACH Uber Inc said on Friday it struck a deal with Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd to test a fleet of electric cars for its drivers.
The test program, which kicked off a few weeks ago in Chicago and could eventually expand to other cities, is the Silicon Valley startup's first attempt to focus on an electric vehicle, said Uber spokeswoman Lauren Altmin."We've seen interest in the program already from current and potential Chicago partners (drivers)," Altmin said.
Uber Women's Tracy Walker Jersey , which allows users to summon rides on their smartphones, originally started with a luxury town-car service but in many cities has added UberX, a low frills service with nonprofessional drivers using personal cars. The BYD offering is aimed at those drivers.
The electric car is part of Uber's program to help drivers buy or lease new or used cars. The BYD e6 vehicles are available through Green Wheels USA, a Chicago car dealership that focuses on electric and hybrid cars and also builds EV charging stations.
About 25 BYD vehicles are currently being used by Uber drivers in Chicago, and the hope is to bring that number to a couple of hundred by the end of the year, according to Doug Snower Women's Graham Glasgow Jersey , Green Wheels' president.
Uber began talking to BYD and Green Wheels late last year, Altmin said.
For BYD the deal with Uber could be a step toward the long-held goal of selling its cars to U.S. consumers. The company, whose name stands for "build your dream", is a major automaker in China, but its e6 vehicle has thus far only been used in pilot programs in the United States.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Tesla Motors Inc are better known in the United States for their electric cars, the Leaf and the Model S. Uber would not comment on why it had picked a company with a relatively unknown brand.
The e6 is larger than many other electric cars Women's A'Shawn Robinson Jersey , however, and is being used in London by chauffer service Thriev.
BYD gained Warren Buffett's backing in 2009 and announced plans to sell its e6 electric car in the United States the following year. Since then, BYD's U.S. business has focused mainly on electric buses for public transportation.
BYD publicized the program on its Facebook page but declined to comment on the deal with Uber.
The Facebook post, which has a picture of the vehicle, says the e6 has a 186 mile range on a single charge. It also says financing is available from BYD-approved lenders.
Green Wheels is offering several options to drivers interested in the e6. The most popular program, Snower said Women's Michael Roberts Jersey , allows an Uber driver to pay $200 a week to use an e6 for his or her driving shift. The vehicle is then returned to a Green Wheels lot, where it is charged until it is used again.
Drivers can also enter into a more traditional lease or a lease-to-own program, Snower said.
BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- China's Food and Drug Administration has approved a new-generation heart valve replacement product, which greatly reduces surgery time and increases survival rate, the developers announced Thursday.
The J-Valve Women's Jalen Reeves-Maybin Jersey , an upgraded transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system developed by JC Medical, has passed clinical tests and will be put into use across China, said Zhang Ji, J-Valve inventor and chairman of JC Medical, at a press conference.
Traditional TAVI solutions require doctors to make the a big incision on the patients' chests and open their hearts to put the prosthetic valve inside manually, which takes about four hours and poses risks of wrong positioning of valve and loss of blood Women's Kenny Golladay Jersey , according to Wang Wei, a senior cardiac surgeon at the Fuwai Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
The J-Valve system, featuring minimally invasive surgery, is easier to implant and provides automatic positioning of the valve, said Wang.
Doctors only watch an electronic screen and operate outside the patients' bodies. The whole procedure lasts about 10 minutes.
Most prosthetic valves currently available are designed for calcified valves, or aortic stenosis Women's Teez Tabor Jersey , but the J-valve is a solution to both aortic stenosis and aortic insufficiency, said Guo Yingqiang, a cardiac surgeon at West China Hospital of Sichuan University.
The new product was used to fix the hearts of more than 100 patients during the clinical phase, Zhang said.
In February 2016, doctors at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada Women's Jarrad Davis Jersey , succeeded in repairing a patient's heart using the J-valve. Six implants based on J-valve have been performed in Canada, according to Zhang.
The aortic valve carries blood out of the heart to the rest of the body. Malfunction of the valve can lead to cardiac failure. An estimated 12 million people worldwide have heart valve diseases, of whom about 2 million live in China.
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