September 2015

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

The September issue of the “Global Carsharing Update” is here!

A lot of exciting things have been happening in the carsharing world during the last 4 weeks. Peer-2-Peer services are growing in Asia and exploring new business models in Europe; new studies on the benefits and success factors of carsharing have been published; and new operators are now in business in Copenhagen and Moscow.

Don’t wait and read these and other interesting news by scrolling down!

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Best regards,
Dr. Bodo Schwieger

Operators News

TravelerCar extends its services to Paris city center (France)
The Frech P2P platform available at 8 French airports collaborates now with the Group Accor to offer its services at Ibis Hotels in the French capital.
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New P2P operator in Indonesia
Tripves, a tech start-up company based in Bali, provides the first peer to peer carsharing marketplace in Indonesia and their activities have already grown in a 100% after a month of operations. Congratulations!
Read more...

New free floating carsharing arrives in Moscow (Russia)
The carsharing service Delimobil has officially launched in Moscow with 100 cars, planning to increase to 500 vehicles by the end of the year.
Read more...

DriveNow is now available in Copenhagen (Denmark)
DriveNow has been operating in Copenhagen since September 3rd, offering an all-electric fleet of 400 BMW i3.
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Technologies News


VULOG raised 8,4M€ to skyrocket "free floating" carsharing technology worldwide.
More info: www.vulog.com

Carsharing around the world

Study on carsharing helping to reduce emissions (Germany)
The Federal Environment Agency in Germany argues in a new report that a planned expansion of carsharing along with public transport could reduce CO2 emissions by more than six million tons per year.
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Research on success factors of rural carsharing (Canada)
Why is rural carsharing in the Kootenay region so successful? Find out in the research study of Kootenay Carshare Cooperative's Executive Director Colleen Doyle (contact email).
Download (pdf)

car2go to enter the Spanish market? (Spain)
The mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, announced the possibility of introducing a private electric carsharing operator in the city. Europa Press informed it is car2go.
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