In the new selection, the 1000 Ideas portal has collected 15 unusual business projects on transport topics. You can read about how buses can be converted into hotels and meditation salons, how to refuel a car using a mobile application, what are smart gloves for motorcyclists and a vending machine for cars, read in our material.

Smart tires with wear warning

The Italian company Pirelli presented intelligent tires that can warn the owner about the degree of wear using a mobile application. Small sensors embedded in the sidewalls of tires are capable of collecting data on mileage, temperature, pressure and wear. The information is collected for each wheel individually and then sent to the driver via the app. So far, such chips are built into two types of branded tires. In the US, the novelty will be available in the summer of 2017, and in Europe and Russia should appear no earlier than the end of the year.

Hotels in old buses

The owner of the Chinese amusement park Tai Tai Mountain Park came up with an unusual look for hotels by buying dozens of old buses at a cheap price and creating themed interiors in their salons. Now in a number of his works you can find bus numbers with Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and other famous cartoon characters.

Services for protection against tow trucks

In large cities of our country, Internet services and mobile applications began to work to protect drivers of personal cars from tow trucks. Owners of improperly parked cars learn about the approach of a tow truck, as a rule, from former victims of the evacuation, who themselves experienced all its consequences. It's no secret that sometimes you need not only a lot of time and money, but also nerves to rescue your vehicle from imprisonment in a car impound.

Delivery of gasoline using a mobile application

In American cities, gasoline delivery services using mobile applications are actively appearing. The client informs about the place of the parked car, convenient time for refueling and opens the gas tank hatch, and the courier arrives and refuels the car. The idea turned out to be very popular - similar services began to be tested by entrepreneurs from Russia.

New York has a new system to deal with drivers who break parking rules. A system called The Barnacle is attached to their windshields, which cannot be removed without paying a fine. The system looks like a big book, which, when opened, is hung on the glass and completely blocks the driver's view. When you try to tear it off yourself, the alarm immediately turns on. Therefore, the only reasonable way out is to part with the money, pay a fine for the offense, get an activation code and enter it through the keyboard built into the device.

Two Indian artists from Ahmedabad, mother and daughter, Saundya Pandya Thakkar and Shakuntala Pandya, came up with an unusual way to reduce the number of accidents on Indian roads. By drawing a three-dimensional zebra in the form of concrete blocks on the road, they were able to force drivers to slow down to the limit before a pedestrian crossing.

The TurnPoint Glove is a turn-by-turn navigator for motorcycle riders designed to make GPS following safer. It resembles a rotating disk of an old phone and is located in a special slot on the left glove. The device shows the rider the direction of the turn and the distance to it, synchronizing with the GPS-navigator via Bluetooth LE. The advantage of the device is that it is quite easy to use, but at the same time it helps the driver not to be distracted by the navigator and peer at the diagrams, as well as to avoid situations of “flying” past the turns. In addition, gloves allow you to operate the system without removing your hands from the steering wheel. For example, touching your thumb and forefinger will indicate the distance to the next checkpoint on the route.

Kangaroo anti-collision detectors

There are more than 20,000 kangaroo accidents in Australia every year. When this carcass, weighing up to 60, and sometimes 80 kg, suddenly crosses the road at a speed of up to 60 km / h, any Australian driver becomes completely not laughing. In this regard, the Volvo concern, which already had experience in creating radars that can catch animals such as elk, reindeer or cows, decided to add a kangaroo radar to the list.

Spherical tires

A company called Goodyear has developed tires for cars of the future that can rotate 360 ​​degrees. Spherical tires called Eagle are the same as ordinary ball bearings or wheels in a computer mouse. At the same time, such balls are not attached to the body, simply hanging in the air due to magnetic levitation.

Canadian clothing brand Lululemon Athletica has decided to help Londoners find peace of mind by converting a double-decker meditation bus. The interior of the bus has been transformed into an oasis of calm and scented with cinnamon, lavender and jasmine. Passengers are also offered light snacks from the Neat Nutrition brand. It was possible to use the bus services for several days in January 2017. The action was timed to coincide with the opening of a flagship clothing store on Regent Street.

Tent on car roofs

IKamper specializes in car top tents. The head of the company was inspired to create the idea by the novel by the American writer Jack Kerouac “On the Road” and childhood dreams of a treehouse. However, the "houses" he created are much better - they can be taken to any place where the road allows, and installed in 1-2 minutes.

At the exhibition of high technologies in China, a bus was presented that can move above the traffic flow and accommodate up to 1,400 passengers. The design of the vehicle is a tunnel about 3 meters high. Moving along rails installed along roadsides, a new type of public transport passes two lanes of cars under it.

L'Oreal came up with an original promotion for Victor & Rolf's FlowerbombSurprise perfume fragrance by creating a branded flower taxi. The body design of the taxi completely repeats the branded perfume bottle, and the interior is trimmed with pink suede upholstery and more than 1000 colors.

Modular unmanned trucks

In 2017, the UK will have the first modular unmanned electric trucks that can be built in just 4 hours. They will work on electricity. At the same time, the basic battery charge is enough for 160 km of driving. According to company representatives, it was decided to make the trucks as "accessible, elegant, quiet, clean and safe" as possible, and their use will help to at least halve the costs of logistics operators.

How and where to start a car business?

The joke circulating on the Internet that the richest people in the world - motorists, no matter how much you raise duties - both drove and will, reflects the essence of the addiction of many people, on which they spent and continue to spend the lion's share of their budget.

A car for a man is a special passion in life, a hobby, a vehicle, a source of personal pride, and not rarely a source of income. Every day the number of women driving is increasing. What unites all people who are ready to spend hours in a traffic jam is the need for the convenience and comfort of traveling in a personal car - and they are ready to pay constantly for this need.

If you want to build a business in the automotive industry, then first you should choose a niche and evaluate the prospects for working in it.

What do you need to know about the automotive business?

First, the car business is interesting not only to entrepreneurs, but also to the state. This path of income is a goldmine. Naturally, you need to prepare for the fact that business in this area is very cruel, and not only competitors, but also local controlling government agencies will put spokes in the wheels. You will not be able to bypass the registration of an individual entrepreneur, and every month even from the smallest car wash you will have to pay taxes for at least 6 thousand rubles, which for the regions is not a critical figure, but tangible.

Second, the automotive business- too broad a concept, it is difficult to cover it entirely and at once. These are car dealerships, service centers, workshops, car washes, spare parts stores, and driving schools. Automotive consulting and provision of various services, auto resale, etc.

At first glance, it seems to a person who has decided to plunge into the world of the auto business that all niches are already occupied by large companies and there is nothing to catch here. However, superficial judgment is easy to dispel by checking the chosen niche. It often happens that in the provinces there are not enough service centers specializing in the repair of certain brands of cars, parts, alarm systems, there are no stores with the necessary spare parts.

Thirdly, the auto business requires solid investments. If you are a beginner, it is unlikely that you have at least 20 million rubles to rebuild or rent a car dealership, gain the trust of large dealers and get the connections necessary for business development. In addition, a car dealership pays off within five to seven years, during which you will have to invest more and more in the business.

The way out is to choose a niche that does not require significant investments and allows you to quickly start at no loss when registering an IP.

Budget car business ideas:

Sale of auto parts

With the development of Internet services of advertising platforms, sales of auto parts via the Internet have skyrocketed. Often times, many auto parts dealers don't even need to set up a website to make money. Enough posting on bulletin boards.

In small towns, where people prefer to buy in stores rather than on the Internet, it is very good to post ads on city forums and through word of mouth on social networks.

If you want stability, then a simple but convenient site with an online store will cost you no more than 5 thousand rubles a year, taking into account the costs of domain registration and hosting, as well as paying for a website builder if necessary. You can make a website yourself by downloading video tutorials on the Internet and any ready-made engine you like with a set of template designs. If you don’t want to mess around, there are budget online services for creating websites. You can order a website from a freelancer or a web studio, but it will cost 10 thousand rubles.

The most important thing is to choose the right product.

First, you should study the assortment of your competitors.

Secondly, visit Yandex wordstat and check for search queries that are more popular in your region. In addition, if there is no money to buy everything, first put the parts on the site under the order and see what is in demand. How to promote an online store is the topic of a separate article. To do this, you will have to read two or three books about the specifics of online trading.

You need to open an individual entrepreneur, because the details for payment are indicated on the site and payment systems are screwed. Before you draw up documents, put the goods on the site in a test pre-order mode, spam on forums and message boards to see if there is a response in your direction.

If you have the funds, you can rent a small room, hang a sign and sell spare parts. With individual entrepreneurs, simplified accounting works, you can write checks by hand.

Car services as a business

If funds allow, you can open a car service. However, as a rule, advantageous places near parking lots and highways are already occupied. It remains only to look for a place in a developing residential area of ​​the city with a convenient access road.

It is not enough to open a car service, you need to get certification of the services provided by contacting the State Standard, NAMI, Rostest. The latter conducts a metrological check of the equipment. The larger the car service, the greater the amount that will have to be paid for certification valid for three years. An average car service gives at least 100 thousand rubles for certification.

As a rule, 90% of all car services- small workshops with two or three posts. Services are specialized depending on the services provided: car painting and tuning, tire fitting, used car repair, foreign car repair, engine repair and diagnostics, etc.

It is unprofitable for a small workshop to be scattered to provide a wide range of services. In addition, at least 20 square meters must be allocated for the repair of each machine, plus a place for a warehouse, a place for receiving customers, and a place for staff. The room must have a bathroom.

Depending on the services provided, you will have to buy equipment. For a small car repair shop providing wheel replacement services, a tire changer will cost from 35,000 rubles, 2 jacks - from 1,500 rubles, a vulcanizer from 8,000 rubles, a set of tools from 10 thousand rubles.

If your service specializes in repairing engines, then you can’t do without an engine lift that costs from 8 thousand rubles, a battery charger for 8 thousand rubles, a set of tools for 12,000 rubles and a compressor for about 15 thousand rubles.

On average, workshops pay off in 6 months.

Car wash as a business

Building a car wash from scratch is quite problematic. In addition to having serious funds, you will have to obtain a building permit from the city administration, as well as coordinate a huge pile of documents. A budget option would be to rent a room and buy a manual sink for it.

In this case, you will need about 600 thousand rubles to open, which is not such a big amount to create a business that will pay off within a year or two. Hand washing is the highest quality, but it all depends on the diligence of the craftsmen. In addition, with a manual wash, you will be able to offer additional ideas for a complete dry cleaning of the interior.

On average, in cities, a manual car wash service costs 300 rubles, depending on the workload of your car wash and the number of washers, your profit will add up.

Sale of used and new cars

The easiest way to sell used cars is to make a website about how to choose a used car and place bulletin boards on it about what cars are sold through your resource. Where to take a car? You can find cars from abroad and bring them in from there, but this is a very long and laborious process.

It is much easier to contact companies that already sell cars and act as an agent through your website for a certain percentage of each transaction. You can also make a business card website and offer your agency services in selling cars, provide services for selecting the right car via the Internet from abroad or another city and coordinate all stages of logistics.

Investments in the business are minimal, the payback depends on your diligence and ability to promote yourself. What can not be saved in this case is customer service.

Legal advice and assistance

In the last two years, a business has been developing in the field of advising people before buying a car. All you need is to make a business card site with contacts that you are engaged in diagnostics of cars that the client wants to buy.

It is quite problematic to find a really decent used car in the modern used car market. One service for examining several options for ads costs from 3,000 rubles. You can promote your services on forums, automotive sites and advertise in newspapers.

If you want a more complicated option, you can open a company that provides services for the preparation of all documents for obtaining car registration, deregistration, and insurance. In this case, it is enough to open an IP and make your own website. Initial costs are minimal.

In order to start making money in the automotive business, it is not necessary to take out a loan or have large funds available. It is enough to use your ingenuity and practical knowledge in the automotive field. You can always find a small niche in your city that is not busy and does not require huge investments, as is the case with the provision of services.

Instruction

Register an individual entrepreneur or legal entity with the tax office. It is worth noting that until recently, in order to open a service station, a much more extensive package of documents was required. Either the state has finally decided to go forward not in words, but in deeds, or there are still so few on our Russian highways (given the condition of some routes and the hope for a Russian “maybe”) that red tape with papers can become fatal.

Find a place for your future workshop. The best place is on the highway or near the city junction near the gas station and garage. But since all such places are certainly already firmly occupied, it will be enough for at least one of these conditions to be observed. The room must already have a viewing hole or a lift, otherwise you will have to enter into additional agreements with the landlord.

Be sure to contact the sanitary and fire service to get positive conclusions about the condition of the premises. Be prepared for the fact that, taking into account the specifics of your enterprise, the requirements will be quite stringent.

Purchase all necessary equipment, tools and supplies. Usually, several of the most common types of work are performed in: minor engine repairs. Therefore, do not skimp on good imported equipment (preferably German or Italian), so that the whole range of work can be completed in the shortest possible time. Moreover, such works are seasonal, and reinstallation will cost you much more.

Soberly assess your capabilities before installing a sign over the entrance (and entrance) to the car service. For the repair of many foreign cars, you will need "native" computer stands, which are available only to official dealers of companies. Therefore, it is better to start with the maintenance of domestic cars, so as not to harm either the car or your reputation.

Set real prices for your services - then it is likely that you will soon have regular customers and you will quickly recoup all costs.

Invite good specialists to work in your service. Interview on theory and practice. However, in the auto business (especially local) such specialists are always in sight. If possible, offer them a higher salary, and fans of your business - a lot of good orders that you will definitely get if you did everything right before.

Get all the necessary certificates of conformity for each type of work. To do this, you need to submit to the branch of the Russian Certification Center: all the statutory documents, a certificate of registration of an individual entrepreneur or LLC, an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, statistics codes, a lease agreement for premises, conclusions from the SES and the fire service and a list of equipment. After your application, specialists will be sent to you who will test the work of your car service and, in case of positive results, will issue you all the necessary certificates.

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In the new selection, the 1000 Ideas portal has collected 15 unusual business projects on transport topics. You can read about how buses can be converted into hotels and meditation salons, how to refuel a car using a mobile application, what are smart gloves for motorcyclists and a vending machine for cars, read in our material.

Smart tires with wear warning

The Italian company Pirelli presented intelligent tires that can warn the owner about the degree of wear using a mobile application. Small sensors embedded in the sidewalls of tires are capable of collecting data on mileage, temperature, pressure and wear. The information is collected for each wheel individually and then sent to the driver via the app. So far, such chips are built into two types of branded tires. In the US, the novelty will be available in the summer of 2017, and in Europe and Russia should appear no earlier than the end of the year.

Hotels in old buses

The owner of the Chinese amusement park Tai Tai Mountain Park came up with an unusual look for hotels by buying dozens of old buses at a cheap price and creating themed interiors in their salons. Now in a number of his works you can find bus numbers with Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and other famous cartoon characters.

Services for protection against tow trucks

In large cities of our country, Internet services and mobile applications began to work to protect drivers of personal cars from tow trucks. Owners of improperly parked cars learn about the approach of a tow truck, as a rule, from former victims of the evacuation, who themselves experienced all its consequences. It's no secret that sometimes you need not only a lot of time and money, but also nerves to rescue your vehicle from imprisonment in a car impound.

Delivery of gasoline using a mobile application

In American cities, gasoline delivery services using mobile applications are actively appearing. The client informs about the place of the parked car, convenient time for refueling and opens the gas tank hatch, and the courier arrives and refuels the car. The idea turned out to be very popular - similar services began to be tested by entrepreneurs from Russia.

New York has a new system to deal with drivers who break parking rules. A system called The Barnacle is attached to their windshields, which cannot be removed without paying a fine. The system looks like a big book, which, when opened, is hung on the glass and completely blocks the driver's view. When you try to tear it off yourself, the alarm immediately turns on. Therefore, the only reasonable way out is to part with the money, pay a fine for the offense, get an activation code and enter it through the keyboard built into the device.

Two Indian artists from Ahmedabad, mother and daughter, Saundya Pandya Thakkar and Shakuntala Pandya, came up with an unusual way to reduce the number of accidents on Indian roads. By drawing a three-dimensional zebra in the form of concrete blocks on the road, they were able to force drivers to slow down to the limit before a pedestrian crossing.

The TurnPoint Glove is a turn-by-turn navigator for motorcycle riders designed to make GPS following safer. It resembles a rotating disk of an old phone and is located in a special slot on the left glove. The device shows the rider the direction of the turn and the distance to it, synchronizing with the GPS-navigator via Bluetooth LE. The advantage of the device is that it is quite easy to use, but at the same time it helps the driver not to be distracted by the navigator and peer at the diagrams, as well as to avoid situations of “flying” past the turns. In addition, gloves allow you to operate the system without removing your hands from the steering wheel. For example, touching your thumb and forefinger will indicate the distance to the next checkpoint on the route.

Kangaroo anti-collision detectors

There are more than 20,000 kangaroo accidents in Australia every year. When this carcass, weighing up to 60, and sometimes 80 kg, suddenly crosses the road at a speed of up to 60 km / h, any Australian driver becomes completely not laughing. In this regard, the Volvo concern, which already had experience in creating radars that can catch animals such as elk, reindeer or cows, decided to add a kangaroo radar to the list.

Spherical tires

A company called Goodyear has developed tires for cars of the future that can rotate 360 ​​degrees. Spherical tires called Eagle are the same as ordinary ball bearings or wheels in a computer mouse. At the same time, such balls are not attached to the body, simply hanging in the air due to magnetic levitation.

Canadian clothing brand Lululemon Athletica has decided to help Londoners find peace of mind by converting a double-decker meditation bus. The interior of the bus has been transformed into an oasis of calm and scented with cinnamon, lavender and jasmine. Passengers are also offered light snacks from the Neat Nutrition brand. It was possible to use the bus services for several days in January 2017. The action was timed to coincide with the opening of a flagship clothing store on Regent Street.

Tent on car roofs

IKamper specializes in car top tents. The head of the company was inspired to create the idea by the novel by the American writer Jack Kerouac “On the Road” and childhood dreams of a treehouse. However, the "houses" he created are much better - they can be taken to any place where the road allows, and installed in 1-2 minutes.

At the exhibition of high technologies in China, a bus was presented that can move above the traffic flow and accommodate up to 1,400 passengers. The design of the vehicle is a tunnel about 3 meters high. Moving along rails installed along roadsides, a new type of public transport passes two lanes of cars under it.

L'Oreal came up with an original promotion for Victor & Rolf's FlowerbombSurprise perfume fragrance by creating a branded flower taxi. The body design of the taxi completely repeats the branded perfume bottle, and the interior is trimmed with pink suede upholstery and more than 1000 colors.

Modular unmanned trucks

In 2017, the UK will have the first modular unmanned electric trucks that can be built in just 4 hours. They will work on electricity. At the same time, the basic battery charge is enough for 160 km of driving. According to company representatives, it was decided to make the trucks as "accessible, elegant, quiet, clean and safe" as possible, and their use will help to at least halve the costs of logistics operators.