Uber wrote to us saying that the total number of registered cars/drivers on its platform as of now is 150,000. Ola, Uber and Meru put together have an estimated 370,000 registered vehicles on their platform. Of these Ola claims to have 200,000 (54.05%), Uber 150,000 (40.54%) and Meru claims 20,000 (5.4%). Earlier (3 August): After going app only last week, Ola, the online cab aggregator, now claims to own 80% of the online cab market share by registered vehicles. This is reportedly up from 60% from November 2014. Note that the figure includes TaxiForSure as well. Ola did not reveal specific numbers or the TFS-Ola share breakdown. However, it did mention that the market share data was based on “available or estimated data of registered vehicles on respective platforms”. Ola did not respond to the questions we'd asked with respect to the specific breakdown and source of data. Meru told Medianama that it had 20,000 registered vehicles on its platform across 7 cities, while Uber chose not to disclose its number. Ola claims to do 750,000 rides every day. It also claims to have over 250,000 vehicles and at current scale, it says that it is adding 1,500 vehicles daily. When we spoke with Ola’s Anand Subramanian earlier this month, he told us that TFS had 24,000 cars on its platform. Subramanian also told us then that they had about 150,000 vehicles on its platform and in January Ola was doing around 200,000 rides every day, growing at 35% month on month and we could…
