Toyota Motor Asia Pacific (TMAP) has announced a new tie-up with Grab in Singapore in which it is set to offer its Total-care Service for 1,500 Toyota vehicles owned by Grab – through its subsidiary GrabRentals – in the republic.
The programme is a new set of mobility services designed by the automaker specifically for ride-hailing companies. Working with the latter, Toyota says it will leverage onboard telematics data through a shared information platform to provide a complete set of services such as fleet management, automotive insurance and vehicle maintenance packages for ride-hailing vehicles.
The system will collect driving data via Toyota’s in-vehicle data-transmission device, TransLog, and send this on to the Mobility Services Platform (MSPF), an information infrastructure developed by the automaker for vehicle connectivity.
Grab, Toyota and its local dealers will collaboratively use the vehicle data gleaned to achieve better synergies as well as road safety. Telematic reports, already available on the Grab driver app, will now be enhanced, allowing drivers to understand how they drive and where they can improve.
It also encourages better safety – Grab says that since the rollout of telematics began last year, there has been a 50% reduction in speeding incidents and 20% reduction in hard braking and sudden acceleration, which are potential causes of road accidents.
In the area of vehicle maintenance, the maintenance schedule for each vehicle will be optimised based on driving and vehicle condition data – Grab says that the programme will be able to provide its driver-partners with more cost-efficient and timely maintenance services.
The two parties added that the service will be extended to Grab-owned Toyota vehicles across Southeast Asia, in phases. In addition, both companies will work to increase the share of Toyota vehicles in Grab’s fleet in the region by 25% by 2020.
Toyota and Grab already have a strong working association. The automaker participated in the ride-hailing firm’s financing round in 2017, and earlier this year inked an agreement to strengthen their existing partnership and expand collaboration in the region. As part of the agreement, Toyota announced it was investing an additional US$1 billion (RM4 billion) in Grab.
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So is there anything that are written in the articles related to Malaysia? Please focus news that are related to Malaysia only please.
Everybody trust Toyota quality. Grab knows Toyota work hard and don’t just goyang kaki expecting bantuan kerajaan all the time. Toyota innovate themselves all the time
Toyota as taxi? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Not luxurious, now status gone down to taxi = junk taxi
Grab was sapoted by previous Gov but was opposed by SG Gov.
Now Grab is being opposed by New Gov while SG Gov realised their mistake and now sapots Grab. We can see which Gov is progressive and embraces tech.
Plotek taxi driver, many of us are ex army, Gov staff and polis. Kind and caring Gov we have
Tipoo. Most ex army and polis joins security and private enforcement companies. Most taxi drivers are bored Ahpeks spending time in kopitiams.
Copy paste:
“Grab is the market leader because Grab has provided clean and honest drivers to the public.
All these other apps get the majority old cab drivers and old KLIA limo drivers who are filthy, dirty, lazy and the car always smells of smoke. The driver, instead of working hard, always lepak bawah pokok and sembang with other teksi drivers for hours smoking in their teksis. So their cars stink so much.
This is the reason why Grab is doing so well. We, 30 million Malaysians have migrated from dirty cheating teksis to Grab now”
I wonder will Toyota allow their MSPF platform OR TransLog to share raw telemetry data to another Platform i.e. insurance own? Anyone?