Car2Go
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| Public (subsidiary) | |
| Industry | Car rental |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Stuttgart, Germany |
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Number of locations
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30 |
| Services | Carsharing |
| Parent | Daimler AG |
| Website | www |
car2go is a German car rental company. It is a subsidiary of Daimler AG providing carsharing services in European and North American cities. The company offers exclusively Smart Fortwo and Mercedes-Benz vehicles and features one-way point-to-point rentals. Users are charged by the minute, with hourly and daily rates available. The service forgoes the typical centralized rental office, and cars are user-accessed wherever parked via a downloadable smartphone app. As of October 2016, car2go is the largest carsharing company in the world with over 2,000,000 members.
Daimler introduced the service in Ulm, Germany, in October 2008, where it was developed by one of its internal business innovation units and was first tested exclusively by Daimler employees.
As of October 2016[update], car2go operates over 14,000 vehicles, which serve eight countries and 30 cities worldwide with over 2,000,000 customers. Starting in May 2015, car2go added a $1 'Driver Protection Fee' for each ride to offset the lowered deductible.
Since inception, car2go withdrew from several locations, including Britain, where it closed its service in London and Birmingham after only a year of operation. Due to a lack of charging stations, car2go in San Diego, California, decided to replace all of its all-electric vehicle fleet with gasoline-powered cars starting on 1 May 2016. When the service started in 2011, car2go expected 1,000 charging stations to be deployed around the city, but only 400 were in place by early 2016. As a result, an average of 20% of the carsharing fleet is unavailable at any given time because the cars are either being charged or because they don’t have enough electricity in them to be driven.
The following table details all locations where car2go is active as of February 2017:
The following table details all locations where car2go is no longer active as of November 2016[update]:
The following table details all planned locations for car2go as of November 2016[update]:
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