Launched

Porsche Finance Group launched sharetoo, the first corporate carsharing solution in Romania. The service has been tested since 2016 under the local RideON brand.
Read more... | sharetoo website

Car4way launched electric carsharing project in Prague, Czech Republic.
Read more... | Car4way website

Greenmove launched Stadtauto in Vienna, Austria taking over former Zipcar's stations.
Read more [DE] [EN] | Stadtauto website

Start-up Carmine launched first carsharing service in Morocco.
Read more... | Carmine website

Electric carsharing program Vozilla started in Wrocław, Poland with 200 Nissan LEAFs.
Read more... | Vozilla website

Electric carsharing service called Spark launched in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia.
Read more... | Spark website

Carousel, first carsharing scheme with Russian cars in Moscow.
Read more... | Carousel website

Madrid, Spain has a new carsharing service, Zity operating since December with a fleet of 500 electric vehicles.
Read more... | Zity website

Chinese vehicle producer Lifan Group joined forces with Russian carsharing provider Lifcar and launched nearly 200 Lifan X50's for operations in Russia.
Read more... | Lifcar website

Israeli CAR2GO launched electric carsharing in Haifa, Israel operating 100 Renault ZOEs.
Read more... | Car2Go website

BCR has launched in Bucharest, Romania its first electric carsharing service called eGo.
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Electric carsharing BlueSG launched in Singapore last December with 80 vehicles and 32 charging stations. More than 5,000 rentals in its first three weeks of operation.
Read more... | BlueSG website

Renault Italy has launched Glide, a new corporate carsharing, which includes electric vehicles in its fleet.
Read more [IT] [EN] | Glide website

Toyota Thailand launches a two-year carsharing project, Ha:mo to study motorist behavior in Bangkok.
Read more... | Ha:mo Bangkok website

Mazda started with the pilot corporate carsharing project "Mazda Mobile Carsharing" in Cologne and Hürth, Germany.
Read more [DE] [EN]

Hyundai launched a pilot program for new carsharing service in Jeju, South Korea.
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Expansions

Groupe PSA re-enters U.S. Market. Free2Move launched in Seattle last October.
Read more... | Free2Move website

Holden has expanded Maven Gig to Adelaide, Brisbane and Gold Coast, Australia.
Read more... | Maven Gig website

car2go brings compact Mercedes-Benz vehicles to New York and it's modernizing its Portland and Seattle fleets to be fully comprised of compact Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA vehicles.
Read more: New York | Portland | Seattle

Emov expanded its service area in Madrid, Spain and added 50 vehicles to its fleet.
Read more [ES] [EN] | Emov website

Enjoy added 350 Fiat 500 to its fleet in Rome, Italy.
Read more [IT] [EN] | Enjoy website

Share'ngo expanded its fleets in Italian main cities for a total of 500 new vehicles.
Read more [IT] [EN] | Share'ngo website

ReachNow launches at NYC residences and has added its service in 2 Portland suburbs.
Read more: New York | Portland

BMW Group, in partnership with EVCARD, a Shanghai-based electric carsharing company, has launched its carsharing service ReachNow in Chengdu, China.
Read more... | ReachNow website

Bluecity is aiming to more than double its fleet by early next year, expanding from 100 to more than 200 cars in London, UK.
Read more... | Bluecity website

DriveNow expands its fleets in Hamburg, Germany and in Vienna, Austria.
Read more: Hamburg | Vienna

Honda invests in Chinese carsharing platform Reachda.
Read more...

TravelCar it has expanded its US presence with the addition of Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
Read more... | TravelCar website

Carsharing goes up a gear in London with expansion of Zipcar Flex.
Read more... | Zipcar Flex website

South Korean carsharing startup SoCar taps Malaysia.
Read more... | SoCar website

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Scooter sharing

Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro plans to enter Japan and offer its battery sharing infrastructure to automakers in the country.
Read more... | Gogoro website

Bengaluru-based scooter sharing platform, Vogo has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding and it will use it to build out the automated technology platform.
Read more... | Vogo website

MiMoto is the first electric scooter sharing in Milan, Italy.
Read more [IT] [EN] | MiMoto website

Yugo, the electric scooter sharing in Barcelona, Spain is growing faster. In one year the fleet has been extended to 210 scooters.
Read more [ES] [EN] | Yugo website

WheelStreet is bringing dock-less scooters to India’s cities.
Read more... | WheelStreet Go website

Scoot Networks plans expansion of electric scooter rentals to Barcelona, Spain.
Read more... | Scoot Networks website

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Upcoming

StratosFuel to launch a fuel cell electric vehicle carsharing program in Southern California.
Read more... | StratosShare website

Caroo to launch 100% e-carsharing in Vienna, Austria with 50 vehicles.
Read more [DE] [EN] | Caroo website

Russian online giant Yandex to launch Yandex.Drive, a carsharing service in Moscow.
Read more... | Yandex.Drive website

Nissan to launch new carsharing service in Japan, using LEAF & Note e-POWER.
Read more...

Toyota to establish new Mobility Service Company in April. Toyota intends to plan and provide new mobility services ‘in anticipation of a mobility society’.
Read more...

Transport Malta signed last October the agreement with CAR2GO Israel on electric carsharing service GoTo.
Read more...

China rideshare Didi plans to expand into carsharing. The Beijing-based company intends to enter the carsharing market with an initial investment of at least $151 million.
Read more...

The Jerusalem Municipality chose CAR2GO to operate a carsharing service in the city after opening the selection process to a public tender.
Read more...

Kia Motors announced of its plans for the future of mobility, which includes this year’s expansion to Europe of the automaker’s carsharing service, WiBLE.
Read more...

Toyota's Yuko hybrid carsharing service arrives in Venice, after a phase of experimentation that took place in Forlì since September 2016.
Read more [IT] [EN]

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Milestones

car2go tops one million members in North America.
Read more... | car2go website

Emov, the electric carsharing in Madrid, Spain is the fastest growing carsharing company in Europe. After its first year of operations it has already more then 160,000 members.
Read more [ES] [EN] | Emov website

DriveNow was celebrating the one million customers milestone last October.
Read more... | DriveNow website

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Out of business

The City of Salzburg, Austria shuts down the carsharing project Emil and will try a re-launch of the service as a cooperative.
Read more [DE] [EN]

Cité Lib by Ha:mo project was closed in the end of November, as it completed the 3 years of project term.
Read more...

Citroën ended operations of Multicity carsharing in Berlin last October.
Read more...

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Conferences and Research

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.
Read more...

Mar. 2018: 4th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS)
The purpose of the conference is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems and it will be held in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) on March 16–18, 2018.
Read more...

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.
Read more...

May 2018: 22nd European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM 2018)
The most important European platform for policy makers, traffic engineers and scientists in the field of mobility will be held in Uppsala (Sweden) on May 30-June 1, 2018.
Read more...

Jun. 2018: mobil.TUM - International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport
mobil.TUM 2018, Urban Mobility - Shaping the Future Together, will take place in Munich (Germany) on June 13-14, 2018.
Read more...

Jun. 2018: The Future of Transportation World Conference
A multiple-session conference bringing transportation experts together to discuss the future of transportation at the macro, societal and technological levels. It will take place in Cologne (Germany) on June 19-20, 2018.
Read more...

Sep. 2018: 25th ITS World Congress
The Congresses provides the ideal opportunity for all stakeholders to come together, discuss and make the necessary contacts to move initiatives forward and to develop their business by exhibiting and demonstrating state of the art ITS solutions. It will be held in Copenhagen (Denmark) on September 17-21, 2018.
Read more...

Oct. 2018: European Transport Conference 2018
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 Dublin (Ireland) on October 10-12, 2018.
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Nov. 2018: IEEE 21st 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 Maui,Hawaii (USA) on November 4-7, 2018.
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