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September 2017
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to the September edition of our Global Carsharing Update.
In this edition, team red conducts an interview with Zalan Szekely, Co-founder of AutoPal. Read about Hungary's first peer-to-peer carsharing service and discover our recent news from the carsharing community worldwide.
Best regards,
Dr. Bodo Schwieger
CEO team red
Operators News
Zipcar expands to Latin America and Iceland
Zipcar announced this month the launch of its service in Costa Rica. This marks the first launch in Latin America for the brand. Twenty vehicles are now available for reservation by the hour or by the day in easily accessible locations throughout San Jose, Heredia and Alajuela. Less than two weeks later, the company announced also its expansion to Nordic region with its launch in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Read more: Costa Rica
Read more: Iceland
Daimler invests millions into Via and Turo (Germany, USA)
German manufacturer Daimler pumped big money into the sharing economy this month, dishing out millions of dollars to a pair of rising startups. First, the company committed $50 million into a joint venture with Via, an on-demand shuttle service that operates in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. and will contribute money and its high-end vans to bring Via to European cities, starting with London. Daimler’s other big investment went to Turo, U.S. peer-to-peer carsharing market leader. At the same time, the Daimler peer-to-peer carsharing platform Croove will be combined with the U.S. company.
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New e-scooter sharing and e-carsharing schemes in Singapore
PopScoot, the local electric scooter sharing platform launched this month in Singapore is rolling out its e-scooter at almost 30 locations island-wide. PopScoot is already the third e-scooter operator in the city after Telepod and Neuron Mobility launched three months ago. From December, also about 80 electric cars will hit the roads progressively, under Singapore's first large-scale, island-wide electric carsharing program. The program is being developed and run by BlueSG, a subsidiary of the Bollore Group.
Read more: e-scooter sharing PopScoot
Read more: e-carsharing BlueSG
Zity is the new carsharing service in Madrid, Seat ready to join the market (Spain)
As already announced, Ferrovial Services and Renault have signed an agreement to implement a new carsharing service in Madrid. The name of the program is now official – Zity. The project will start up with an initial fleet of 500 electric vehicles located within the M-30 beltway and in some adjoining areas. Meanwhile, after testing a carsharing scheme among its employees, Seat announced that is ready to join the carsharing market with its own program. More details to follow in the next weeks.
Read more: Zity
Read more: Seat 
Hyundai to launch e-carsharing in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
From 5 October, Hyundai Motor will make 100 electric vehicles available for a free-floating carsharing project in Amsterdam. The Ioniqs can be located, rented and opened with an app. The cars have a range of 280 km. Hyundai says it picked Amsterdam for this project because it is the European capital with the best EV charging infrastructure.
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car2go upgrades its fleets (Italy, USA)
car2go hits the 150,000 members milestone in two cities in Italy: Milan and Rome. In both cities the operator is renewing the fleet, extending the number of smart forfours to 400 in Milan and introducing a completely new fleet of 300 smart fortwo and 300 smart forfour in Rome. Meanwhile in the USA, Austin, car2go takes carsharing to next level with new vehicles and technology. The service is being completely upgraded, transitioning to a new fleet made up of hundreds of new Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA compact vehicles that use the latest app-based technology.
Read more: Milan 
Read more: Rome
Read more: Austin
Santander launches carsharing program, my-e-car extends its electric fleet (Germany)
Santander Consumer Bank AG and Drive-CarSharing GmbH are now cooperating under the new brand “Movio CarSharing”. This is how Santander offers to its more than 16,000 cooperating car dealerships in Germany the opportunity to integrate carsharing as a new service into their company. In the south of Germany, the local operator my-e-car could add 40 new electric vehicles to its fleet thanks to state’s help.
Read more: Movio CarSharing 
Read more: my-e-car
First e-carsharing service launches in Romania
Local firm Casa Auto launched the first carsharing service in Romania that uses exclusively electric vehicles. It’s called Caby and uses Mitsubishi iMiev cars. Corporate employees will use the service in the beginning. The service will be made available to the general public once the company increases its fleet.
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EasyRide – new carsharing operator in Moscow (Russia)
Another operator, EasyRide, has launched its carsharing service in Moscow this month. Italian investments and many partners are involved in the project. Renualt is providing a fleet of 100 Captur crossovers. The operator is planning to increase the number of vehicles to 500 by the end of the year and up to 2,000 in 2018.
Read more...
New electric carsharing in Florence (Italy)
From the 2nd of October Florence will have a new carsharing operator: Adduma. After car2go, Enjoy and Share'ngo, the Sicilian company is going to be the fourth operator in the city. The service will start with a fleet of 40 electric vehicles: 32 Renault Zoe and 8 Renault Kangoo Ze. Adduma plans to have 100 vehicles in 2018 and wants to become the “low cost” carsharing in the city.
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3 questions for...
AutoPal is Hungary's first peer-to-peer carsharing service. How did you start and what have been the main challenges so far?
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(Source: AutoPal)
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I used to manage a small fleet of cars in the traditional car rental market when I realized that the demand for quality and affordable car rental services surpasses the supply in Hungary. When exploring different opportunities for expansion, I discovered the concept of peer-to-peer carsharing and decided to introduce it to the Hungarian market. I believe our initial challenges were not different from any other P2P players’ challenges: 1) entering a two-sided market required us to ensure one side of the market in order to attract the other, and 2) securing a good insurance deal. Initially, we decided to partner with small local car rental companies, which not only allowed us to run our initial tests and fine-tune our product, but also gave us some time to secure our insurance deal with Aegon.
According to your website there are currently 133 vehicles available on the platform, but just some of them are owned by private users. Are carsharing users in Hungary willing to share their own cars? What are the benefits for them?
As mentioned above, we started our operation by partnering with some small car rental businesses, hence the unique composition of our supply. Nevertheless, our mission is to introduce the concept P2P car-sharing and its benefits to more and more individual users. The benefits are similar to any other market: cover the cost of car ownership, generate some extra revenue, and contribute to the environment.
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(Source: AutoPal)
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All in all, Hungarians are more attached to their cars than their Western peers; however, the financial benefit of sharing their car is also much more attractive considering the lower income. Obviously, the key is to know your market and your customers and have the right way of communication when emphasizing the benefits and handling fear.
How do you see the future of carsharing in Hungary and what is your most important management task in the next 12 months?
I believe carsharing has a bright future ahead of it in Hungary. 56% of the Hungarian households do not have a car, whilst the 3.3 million cars out there are sitting idle 95.7% of the time. Car rental services in Hungary are either not affordable or they are available at a fairly poor quality. Public transportation only provides a feasible alternative on some main routes. Both the inbound and domestic tourism are booming and fuelling the demand and the share of online transactions is also increasing. The sharing economy in general is also gaining space in the last decade: we have Airbnb, Blablacar, and Uber was also extremely popular before getting banned.
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(Source: AutoPal)
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Our most important goal for the next 12 months is growth. We’re currently closing our first round of investment, which will allow us to scale our customer acquisition. We’ll also roll out a brand new design with improved UX and planning to go completely paperless to improve the overall customer experience.
Conferences and Research
Oct. 2017: EcoMobility World Festival and Congress 2017
In October 2017, the Kaohisung City (Taiwan) will host the 3rd EcoMobility World Festival. The Festival will be a live demonstration of how cities can take a bold step to create a forward-thinking urban transportation culture through ecomobility. During the festival, the fourth EcoMobility World Congress 2017 will be held from 2 to 4 October 2017 in Kaohsiung.
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Oct. 2017: European Transport Conference 2017
The European Transport Conference (ETC) provides a forum for the coming together of research, policy and practice in transport and it will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on October 4-6, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: 30th International Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition (EVS30)
The largest trade fair and conference event for electric mobility will be held in Stuttgart (Germany) on October 9-11, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and it will be held in Yokohama (Japan) on October 16-19, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: eMove360° Europe
The 2nd International Trade Fair for Mobility 4.0 electric - connected - autonomous will be held in Munich (Germany) on October 17-19, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: 5th World Collaborative Mobility Congress “wocomoco”
The international platform for innovative mobility solutions promoting the sharing of vehicles, rides and infrastructure will be held in Berlin (Germany) on October 18-20, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: Autonomy & Urban Mobility Summit
Autonomy’s Urban Mobility Summit with speakers discussing across five verticals of Active Mobility, Data and analytics, Electric vehicles, Shared mobility and Autonomous vehicles will be held in Paris (France) on October 19-21, 2017.
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Oct. 2017: Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN)
The conference will aim to help and provide solutions that will aid in the Cities’ Transformation, define & Reduce Negative Impacts on the city and its Components, and Discusses The Social & economical approaches and solutions for better growth. Palermo (Italy), October 25-27, 2017.
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Oct. - Nov. 2017: ITS World Congress 2017
The ITS World Congress 2017 brings together global leaders in intelligent and transformative transportation to showcase and evaluate the latest innovative concepts, active prototypes, and live systems. Montréal (Canada), October 29 - November 2, 2017.
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Nov. 2017: Smart City Expo World Congress 2017
The congress will bring together over 400 global influencers and innovators to share knowledge, debate the challenges faced by our cities, encourage out of the box thinking and inspire a worldwide call for action in order to develop smarter and more sustainable cities. Barcelona (Spain), November 14-16, 2017.
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Feb. - Mar. 2018: URBAN FUTURE global conference
The World’s largest meeting point of CityChangers: committed people that actually drive change to make cities more sustainable will be held in Vienna (Austria) on February 28 - March 2, 2018.
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Mar. 2018: City Car Summit 2018
The international forum for leaders from the automotive, carsharing and technology worlds who are shaping the new urban mobility ecosystem will be held in Berlin (Germany) on March 20-21, 2018.
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