London, 10 May 2018 – The overall carsharing vehicle parc is expected to expand from 983k in 2017 to 1237k in 2018, driven by motorists’ desire to use alternative modes of transport, the rise in employee mobility options and environmental concerns. Existing providers of recent mobility solutions like carsharing, ridesharing, ridehailing, on-demand responsive shuttles, and integrated mobility are already scaling …

View original post. VW announced today the deployment of what could be one of the largest all-electric car fleets through its new ‘We Share‘ car sharing service. Berlin is going to be the first city to get the service and it will start with a fleet of 2,000 electric cars. VW’s electric vehicles are already being used in third-party car-sharing …

View original post. Hailing a Lyft or Uber has become so normal those companies pretty much have become verbs, kind of like “googling.” But no one is asking, “Wanna Getaround to dinner?” It’s clear car-sharing hasn’t become as popular as ride-hailing, and it may stay that way. Car-sharing, which involves renting someone else’s car or borrowing a car from a …

View original post. Ride-hailing services might seem like a money-saving alternative to buying a car for people who live in urban areas. But according to a new study, it’s not nearly as cost-effective as you’d think. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that using ride-hailing services like Lyft and Uber as a primary mode of transportation works out to be far …

View original post. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is seen as one of the Next Big Things in transportation, allowing people to seamlessly plan and pay for door-to-door multi-modal journeys. The well-publicised Lisbon Study predicted how the introduction of a fleet of shared vehicles into the city would affect traffic. It discovered that by replacing all car and bus journeys with ride-sharing …

View original post. Volkswagen has announced plans to launch a new, fully electric car-sharing service in Germany in 2019, and other cities worldwide in 2020. The fully electric car-sharing service will accompany a number of additional vehicle-on-demand services as part of its WE platform. These supplementary services may include smart parking apps, location-based vouchering and other mobility solutions, which aim …

View original post. A revolution in business mobility is just around the corner. Craig Thomas looks at what we can expect to help us travel more efficiently. “Alexa, what’s the quickest way to get to my meeting this morning?” This is going to be the kind of question many of us will be asking our digital assistants in our smart …

View original post. COX Automotive, the world’s leading automotive services company, has extended its already broad footprint across the motor industry with an investment in a ride-sharing platform. The move gives the privately-owned company a foot in the door of the next generation of growth in motoring services. Ridecell Inc, which claims to be the platform of choice for leading …

View original post. Car usage in the capital is falling, but what’s replacing it? We run through some of the ways tech is affecting transport in London today. While Londoners used to be faced with a binary choice between car or public transport, new ways of getting around the capital have been cropping up. In London, the number of journeys made …

View original post. Mercedes-Benz has launched a subscription service for its cars in the US. For an entry price of just over US$1,000 a month, ‘Mercedes-Benz Collection’ is designed for ‘those drivers who prefer the variety and convenience of a subscription service’. Mercedes’ new subscription scheme and monthly fee echoes that of Volvo Cars – ‘Care by Volvo’. Volvo estimates …