Fisker looks to be heading towards production for its fully electric SUV, the Ocean, as the firm officially opened up the reservation queue with a fully refundable $250 deposit per vehicle. The Ocean will be offered through a flexible app-based lease starting at just $379 per month after a $2,999 downpayment in a unique model that melds the worlds of on-demand transportation solutions and vehicle ownership.
Usain Bolt is the principal investor in Bolt Mobility. Its first electric car, the B-Nano, is intended for short trips in urban environments and will cost just $9,999.
An interview with GreenMobility founder and CEO, Henrik Isaksen.
The company is set to kick-off the LimePod program, starting with 500 EVs in Seattle.
Car2go recently announced that it has expanded into Chicago, where it now has 400 vehicles available — the smart fortwo and Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA models. Kendell Kelton, the Communications Manager for Car2go North America, answered some questions about the expansion for CleanTechnica.
The service will arrive in 2019 with 1,500 e-Golf vehicles in Berlin and other major cities internationally.
The California Air Resources Board, often referred to simply as CARB, will be granting a total of $6 million in awards as part of the Car Sharing and Mobility Options Pilot Project for Fiscal Year 2016–17.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Australia’s first company specialising in electric vehicle rentals and hire cars is now branching out into a new business – EV car sharing – where the owners of Tesla and other EVs rent out their cars. Slava Kozlovskii, the director of Sydney-based Eveeh has so far … [continued]
BMW has long said that BMW i wasn’t created exclusively for developing and manufacturing their plug in electric vehicles; that it would also be devoted to developing sustainable mobility solutions as well.
GM has now launched its carsharing platform, known as “Maven,” in San Francisco, California. As a result, those interested in renting GM vehicles (including the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid/PHEV) in San Francisco can now do so for $8 an hour (or $14 for SUVs). These GM/Maven vehicles can be found at … [continued]
