Focus on automotive: Rental
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14/06/2019Škoda it is trialling Europe's first car-sharing service for Czech university students and is eyeing a sizeable opportunity in the UK. The Czech company says that with 2.3m students enrolled in higher education each year in the UK alone, Uniqway's pioneering car-sharing platform could see "great demand in the future". The project is now in... -
14/03/2019Starting 12 March, Free2Move Paris will be making its free-floating cars available to users in the inner Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. After opening in the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes park areas, the fleet’s expansion to Issy-les-Moulineaux is part of an assertive strategy to boost service coverage. Free2Move Paris will soon... -
13/03/2019General Motors said its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise plans to hire 1,000 more people over the next nine months as the U.S. carmaker aims to launch a robotaxi service by the end of 2019. The company currently employs more than 1,000 people. Cruise spokesman Ray Wert said the majority of those new employers will be engineers. Cruise also... -
04/03/2019Sixt launches world’s first comprehensive mobility platform that includes digital car rentals, car sharing and ride hailing services. With its new app Sixt One, the company wants to offer services and products to 20 million global customers and is developing into a global provider for individual mobility with around 240,000 rental cars, 1,500... -
01/03/2019Share Now is the new free-floating car sharing operator that combines car2go and DriveNow under a single brand. The merge of the two services makes Share Now a global leader in free-flow car sharing. A fleet of over 20,000 BMW, Mercedes-Benz, smart and MINI vehicles is available in 30 cities across Europe and North America. Over 4 million... -
20/02/2019Free2Move Services is expanding its offering with new solutions dedicated to electrified vehicle charging. The Charging Pass allows users to locate and access charging stations compatible with their vehicle. On top of comprehensive mapping, it makes a pre-selection based on distance, as well as the speed and price of the charge. Complementing the... -
05/02/2019Eight months after its launch, the first Full Hybrid Electric car sharing service in Italy, Yukõ with Toyota, has reached 2,500 members in Venice. Since 1th of June 2018 they have made over 4,900 rentals for a total of about 143,000 km traveled, for more than 47% of the time with zero emissions. Thanks to Toyota's Full Hybrid Electric technology...