The largest bike-and-skiing platform Ofo offers bicycle rental without base stations via an online application, starts commercial operations in Kazakhstan on March 17.
The first city of Kazakhstan, where Ofo starts, will be Almaty. The cost of a half-hour trip on the bicycle Ofo will be 80 tenge.
Ofo covers more than 250 cities in 21 countries. Ofo conducts more than 32 million daily transactions. In total, Ofo provided 6 billion effective, convenient and environmentally friendly trips to more than 200 million users in the world.
Ofo users around the world have already reduced their carbon emissions by more than 3.24 million tons, which is equivalent to saving more than 920 million liters of gasoline.
To enter the Kazakhstani market, the Chinese manufacturers Ofo first provided bicycles for free. In February, it was reported that the Chinese company plans in 2018 to put at Almaty station 15 thousand bicycles.