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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group<br />

Source: Morgan Stanley Research, cited in Elmer-DeWitt (2016)<br />

Internet companies have established a number of partnerships with auto makers. Apple<br />

recently made a $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing, Uber’s rival ride-sharing service in<br />

China. 341 Morgan Stanley projects China’s ride-sharing market to be worth $145 billion by 2020<br />

and $500 billion by 2030. Google is partnering with Chrysler on autonomous driven mini-vans<br />

while General Motors has invested half a billion dollars in the ride-sharing business Lyft and has<br />

bought ride-sharing start-up Cruise Automation for a billion dollars. 342 IBM has teamed with<br />

start-up 3D auto printing company, Local Motors, in designing and producing the 3D printed<br />

self-driving electric shuttle van, “Ollie”, 343 while Volkswagen’s 2025 Strategy announced in May<br />

2016, is essentially an Internet of Mobility product-as-a-service proclamation. 344<br />

To the knowledge of the working group, no comprehensive general survey on the Sharing<br />

Economy exists for Luxembourg. In order to address this, the working group suggests a<br />

341 Bennett, Johanna (2016) Morgan Stanley: More to Apple’s Didi Chuxing Investment “Than Meets the Eye”,<br />

Barron’s, May 16, 2016, http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/05/16/morgan-stanley-more-to-applesdidi-chuxing-investment-than-meets-the-eye/.<br />

342 Op cit., Hanley (2016).<br />

343 Mlot, Stephanie (2016) IBM Watson Powers 'Olli' Self-Driving Van, PC Magazine, June 16, 2016,<br />

http://www.pcmag.com/news/345338/ibm-watson-powers-olli-self-driving-van.<br />

344 Schmitt, Bertel (2016) Volkswagen Strategy 2025: Connectivity, Electrification And Strange Dreams Of An Apple<br />

Takeover, Forbes, May 24, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2016/05/24/volkswagen-strategy-<br />

2025-and-the-secret-master-plan-for-an-apple-takeover/#5ae9af2221c5.<br />

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