The popular carsharing services provider car2go has passed, as of September 2016, the 2 million customers milestone, according to recent reports. That figure for the Daimler-owned company includes 1.1 million customers in Europe, including 550,000 in Germany. Notably, car2go membership grew by an impressive 43% over just the last year. Green … [continued]
Originally published on ExpertSure. Here are some interesting statistics about how urban dwellers get around today. Americans rode public transportation 10.7 billion times in 2013—the highest number since 1956. Bike commuting is up 60 percent over the past decade, according to the US Census Bureau People are walking 6 percent more than … [continued]
Is Uber sweating yet? Ford has rolled out 25 global experiments for future mobility, including EV car sharing and a collaborative premium minibus shuttle.
A new car sharing program just started this month in London. DriveNow plans to grow from a small-scale program by expanding naturally. Organically growing step-by step, DriveNow hopes to avoid the problems Daimler had in Britain. The partnership is a teaming up of the BMW Group and Sixt SE. They are presently in … [continued]
Car2Go — the well-known carsharing service based in North America and Europe — will now be offering an incentives program as part of its all-electric offering in San Diego, with the aim of motivating users to leave their cars in a downtown “incentive zone,” as per recent reports. The incentives program is, … [continued]
The new “Cité lib by Ha:mo” electric vehicle car-sharing service that Toyota and its partner Sodetrel have been working on recently has been now officially launched in the city of Grenoble, in France. The service will open to the public on October 1st, and remain open for at least three … [continued]
Boston claims to be the world’s guiding car-sharing network. Indeed, many urban areas are sprouting car-sharing wheels and participating in the convenience of Zipcars. Staying true to its car-sharing leadership, Boston’s fleet has added four new, 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrids. It is also introduced plug-in stations and priority parking … [continued]
A new partnership between Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and the City of Yokohama — Choimobie Yokohama — is the newest addition to the Yokohama Mobility Project ZERO program (YMPZ). The Japanese word describing the idea of ‘easy mobility’ is “Choimobi.” The YMPZ program intends to develop low-emission transportation possibilities for residents … [continued]
The top electric car city in the US… San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think? Indianapolis, the capital city of the US state Indiana and home to approximately 800,000 people, is interested in having all of the city’s fleet of cars replaced with electric and plugin hybrid … [continued]
In a world where petrol is growing ever more expensive and gas-guzzling cars are looked at with a sort of snobbish disparagement, new ways of getting around are beginning to emerge and become a priority for many. One such method is car-sharing, and new research has found that car-sharing can become even more popular […]
