November 2015

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are happy to announce that our Global Carsharing Operators Report 2015 is here. Scroll down to discover this and other interesting news of our global carsharing community.

Best regards,
Dr. Bodo Schwieger
CEO team red

Operators News

car2go says “Hola Madrid” (Spain)
car2go just launched the first free floating carsharing service in Spain. The starting fleet includes 350 smart fortwo electric drive vehicles in an operating area of 53 square kilometres.
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Evercar: the new green carsharing service in Los Angeles (USA)
Evercar has just launched its electric on-demand carsharing service at the LA Auto Show. Evercar’s special offer: Customers may rent an EV (all Nissan Leaf) for a flat “per hour” fee for providing on-demand services such as Uber and Lyft. The company plans to expand further in the Los Angeles metro area in early 2016 with a full nationwide expansion by the end of 2016.
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“Car-Share 4.0” program by Kandi (China)
Kandi Technologies Group reached an agreement with Zhejiang Geely Automobile Holding, China Minsheng Banking Corp, ZTE, Uber and e-commerce giant Alibaba to develop an electric carsharing program in China.
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Munich to support carsharing with on-street parking (Germany)
The city of Munich is planning to make available 1,500 on-street parking licences to carsharing operators.
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Carsharing to arrive in Colombia
Float will be the first carsharing operator in Colombia, planning to start a station-based system in the capital city, Bogota.
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Share’Ngo from Italy to China
The electric carsharing service Share’NGo is now available in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to recent reports.
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New P2P service in the Philippines
Driberko will connect and give access to cars around the country using a mobile application, combining the usual P2P service with car rental with and without driver.
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Technology News

VULOG raised 8,4M€ to skyrocket "free floating" carsharing technology. Get insights here: www.vulog.com

Conferences and Research

team red’s Global Carsharing Operators Report 2015 is here!
team red’s annual report on carsharing business, based on a comprehensive database of operators has just been released. If you are interested in receiving a free copy, please contact us by email.

Dec. 2015: Sustainable Innovation Forum (COP21)
This annual event organized by Climate Action & UNEP will take place this year on 7- 8 December at COP21 in Paris. Check out all the information here (Transport Events at COP21: details).

Jan. 2016: TRB Annual Meeting
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 95th Annual Meeting will be held January 10–14, 2016, in Washington, D.C. (USA). team red will be attending and presenting the results of its Carsharing Evaluation Project in Munich. Check the carsharing session event detail here.

Mar. 2016: City Car Summit
This event will bring automakers, suppliers, car-share operators and technology providers together to engineer the next generation of urban mobility on March 15–16, 2016 in Berlin (Germany).
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Jun. 2016: mobil.TUM 2016 – Transforming Urban Mobility
mobil.TUM 2016 will be held in Munich (Germany) on June 1-2, 2016. The call for papers is open now.
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Past events:

Nov. 2015: Forum “Disrupting Mobility”
In November 11-13 around 350 mobility experts from different continents got together in Boston to tackle current trends in mobility by attracting thought leaders from companies, governments and academia.
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