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Perhaps I should have said EU. Or market.

Either way, outside of madrid, you will have a hard time to find an uber in Spain, which is a complicated country.

Let us do the math. EU has 450 million people, Europe has 740, give or take.

Deduct the Russian market from that, they are out over there.

It was banned then unbanned in places, fe Turkey.

In switzerland, the owe 150million in taxes, not clean solution, is it. In other words, it is worth it to them to operate there having to pay that restrospectivelly, I dare you, try to steal 150m from the Swiss and see how that goes.

Your list leaves plenty to be desired, it does not contain Greece and the Netherlands and Finland, and Belgium.

So 740 m minus

RU has 140m population, of which 100 to 110 m live in the european part.

660m left

Minus Germany and Uk, this leaves us with

510 million, by now, we have excluded almost the entire us population and the countries with most purchasing power for sure.

France, italy and lets say half spain is Nother 130m, leaving us with 380m.

This is half of whole Europe and half of the european union and we are not through yet.

Next most populated country would be ukraine, I would say legal or not, their serives are currently disrupted there by ongoing events.

In other words, europes best economies do not wanna hear about uber and there was no popular uprising about it.

They should take the hint and stay away.

Theybare venditor non grata, that is a horrible business result after a decade of operations.



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Name some in the EU

In the EU.

Bigger in the EU

Wow, this sounds awesome!! Thank you, I didn't know that, I will definitely look closer at the EU countries....

Germany, Italy, Greece and several other EU countries...

They own Here maps, have laser-mapped all of Europe, work on self-driving cars, and own several european Uber-competitors and have stakes in many smaller taxi companies.

I’m sure they’ll find a way to survive.


Europe is a big place, with around 50 countries... 6 months won't begin to scratch the surface.

It is sufficient in Europe.

Where is this happening in Europe?

Europe's population is hundreds of millions, too. Pills are not cars.

Europe is divided between countries deeply infiltrated by Russia and countries who can’t wait to escape and write their own futures. UK, Poland, Hungary will welcome fleeing capital. Brexit wasn’t the last exit.

With its anti-business attitude, tiny high-tech industry and lacking innovation and creativity, Europe’s importance in the world is vanishing fast.

The future is in Asia and Eastern Europe. And US, of course.


And large parts of Europe, at least judging by the travel restrictions on their websites.

Europe seems like it's almost the perfect market for something like this.

Well, except whole Eastern and Southern Europe, where BEV are unaffordable So from whole EU you are left with France, Austria and Benelux.

Europe is the only sensible place left.

Wondering which EU countries will take the lead here.

It's just 2h off Germany. There's at least a good overlap in peak demand with EU I'd assume.

Great news for Europe. I was only considering America and Canada when I made comment above.

The rest of Europe is still an option.
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