Live from london, this is business today. We start with uber, the us Tech Firm that has become a global transport giant. Around The World some 6 Million people work as drivers and couriers through the uber app, and their services are used by 150 Million people at least once a month. Well, the boss of uber, dara khosrowshahi, has been talking to our business editor simonjack, about their plans to make the firm greener and get more of their drivers using Electric Cars. But hes worried that trade tensions with china are getting in the way. The us and europe are hitting chinese Electric Cars with hefty Import Taxes or tariffs to protect their own auto makers, making them more expensive. I think cheap chinese vehicles are a good thing for the environment. And i would tell you that china is transitioning from notjust being cheap but also being high quality and for us, we want to electrify our fleet and make sure it is affordable for our drivers to switch over to evs. The political considerat
do you think they will be able to get their money back? i think that for the major debt holder, the bond order should be, to be honest, we expect this bond order can still only recover approximately 2% or 3% under liquidation scenario and currently the bond issued by evergrande is only trading at 2 cents of the dollar. at this point we believe the most valuable assets owned by evergrande are still in offshore assets which include the share of the publicly serviced and other electric vehicle divisions. meanwhile we think it is virtually impossible to recover anything from its onshore assets. what are the broader implications for the industry from evergrande s liquidation? actually, evergrande is the first developer, first large developer that has been ordered to liquidate. if you look at the previous example, we also saw that the government between hong kong and mainland china china has unusual recognition for insolvency proceedings. so in theory, liquidators from hong kong sh