With a new carsharing service that is like GM’s Maven or Car2Go but has all-electric vehicles, Volkswagen is rolling out WeShare in Berlin. The company is debuting 1,500 Volkswagen e-Golf cars for its fleet of on-demand rentals in the European city, according to reports. The...
Daimler’s car-sharing service car2go was shut down temporarily Thursday (April 18) in Chicago after a slew of Mercedes-Benz cars were stolen by using the app. According to a report, the Chicago Police Department was notified that some of the vehicles used for the car2go program may have...
German automaker Daimler just paid €70 million ($85 million) to buy the remaining 25 percent of carsharing company Car2Go that it did not already own. According to TechCrunch, the deal now brings Car2Go’s valuation to €280 million ($341 million). Founded in 2008, Car2Go originated in...
Rent or buy? Borrow or share? In the land down under, this isn’t about housing; it’s about cars. Modes of transport, where short trips — of the garden variety type, where the supermarket or IKEA beckons — can lead to long hassles. Borrowing a car,...
August 09, 2019
Car2go, a car rental app that lets users pay by the minute, is significantly raising its rates, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company said it’s going to start using variable pricing, based on how busy the service is and the time, location and day, something similar to what Uber does. The company said […]
June 27, 2019
With a new carsharing service that is like GM’s Maven or Car2Go but has all-electric vehicles, Volkswagen is rolling out WeShare in Berlin. The company is debuting 1,500 Volkswagen e-Golf...
April 18, 2019
Daimler’s car-sharing service car2go was shut down temporarily Thursday (April 18) in Chicago after a slew of Mercedes-Benz cars were stolen by using the app. According to a report, the Chicago...
March 02, 2018
German automaker Daimler just paid €70 million ($85 million) to buy the remaining 25 percent of carsharing company Car2Go that it did not already own. According to TechCrunch, the deal...
