Kaohsiung City Public Bike Rental System

Kaohsiung City Public Bike Rental System is presented on the YouBike Smile Bike regional website as a public bicycle rental service. The supplied official “About YouBike” page describes YouBike as an electronic, unmanned public bicycle system offering 24-hour one-way rentals: users can pick up a bicycle at one station and return it at another. The stated purpose is to encourage changes in travel habits, support the use of public transport, reduce traffic congestion, and contribute to energy conservation and sustainable transport. The website describes YouBike 2.0 as a higher-capacity public bicycle system developed in response to operational experience and user needs. Its “wireless, lightweight” parking posts are intended to make station installation more flexible, while onboard smart devices support one-bicycle, one-device rentals without queuing and multiple rental methods. The page says these features are intended to make rental and return quicker and bring public bicycles into more neighborhoods. The site also describes YouBike 2.0E, an electrically assisted bicycle using the same system as YouBike 2.0 and sharing its parking posts and official app. It features a high-capacity lithium battery and a mid-drive motor system using technology developed by Giant. The official page gives a maximum flat-road range of 80 kilometres on a full charge. The supplied evidence does not identify the system’s founding date, operator’s legal entity, ownership, headquarters, or named executives.

The supplied official material does not provide a founding date or a dated chronology for the Kaohsiung service. It describes YouBike as a 24-hour, electronic and unmanned public bicycle rental system that allows a bicycle to be rented at one station and returned at another. The service is presented as a way to encourage different travel habits, connect with public transport, ease congestion, and support energy conservation and sustainable transport. The official “About YouBike” page places the development of YouBike 2.0 in the context of accumulated operating experience and efforts to better meet public needs. The system uses parking posts described as “wireless” and lightweight, with the aim of making station deployment more flexible. Its smart onboard devices allow a bicycle to be rented using a one-bicycle, one-device approach without queuing, and the page notes that users have multiple rental methods. These features are described as helping make bicycle pickup and return faster and extending access into neighborhoods. The page also identifies YouBike 2.0E as an electrically assisted bicycle developed to meet the needs of more types of users. It shares the YouBike 2.0 system, parking posts, and official app. The listed features include a high-capacity lithium battery and a mid-drive motor system incorporating technology developed by Giant. The official page states that a fully charged battery can support up to 80 kilometres of riding on flat roads. The supplied pages establish that a Kaohsiung-region YouBike service website is active and describe the system and offerings, but do not document the Kaohsiung service’s launch date, contract or operator, ownership, leadership, or other dated milestones. Those details are therefore not asserted here.

An automated public bicycle rental system positioned as a convenient complement to public transport and a means of supporting more sustainable urban travel.

• YouBike 2.0

  A public bicycle system with flexible wireless, lightweight parking posts and onboard smart devices; it supports multiple rental methods.

• YouBike 2.0E

  An electrically assisted bicycle using the YouBike 2.0 system, parking posts, and official app.

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