{"id":17790,"date":"2024-02-08T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=17790"},"modified":"2024-02-08T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:05:35","slug":"welly-begins-offering-luxury-delivery-services-to-customers-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2024\/02\/welly-begins-offering-luxury-delivery-services-to-customers-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Welly begins offering luxury delivery services to customers in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">London-based luxury ride-hailing startup, Willy, has announced the commencement of its services in the UAE, according to reports from CNBC&#8217;s economic website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As part of its debut in Dubai, Willy will initiate offering rides to users utilizing BMW 5 Series cars for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This serves as a preliminary step to support the future electric version, the i5, from BMW. This move comes with the aim of competing with existing ride-hailing operators in the commercial hub, including the major player, Careem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The company&#8217;s founder, Russian-Swiss entrepreneur Anton Cherkonov, confirmed to CNBC that ride services will commence in the UAE city starting Wednesday, primarily targeting affluent customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The electric i5 version from BMW presents a financially feasible option, with the 2024 BMW i5 starting at $66,800, making it cheaper than other luxury electric payment-based cars such as the Mercedes-Benz EQE and the Tesla Model X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Willy allows users to make specific requests to their drivers via its app, such as requesting a driver to pick up flowers for a loved one before their arrival, as indicated by Cherkonov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based luxury ride-hailing startup, Willy, has announced the commencement of its services in the UAE, according to reports from CNBC&#8217;s economic website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":17788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1813],"tags":[3287,3286],"class_list":["post-17790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation","tag-bmws-electric-i5","tag-willy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}