Services

9th August 2023

Lyft and Uber Ready for Possible Ride-Hail Price War

Lyft signaled a possible price war with rival Uber despite announcing its strong earning forecast to Wall Street this week. The move spooked investors enough to see the ride-hailing...

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2nd August 2023

‘Affordable’ Driverless Robo-Taxi Platform Unveiled by Steel Consortium

A consortium of automotive steel companies has unveiled its first autonomous BEV platform in an event in Traverse City, Michigan, as the first stop on a US tour of...

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11th July 2023

Paris e-Scooter Ban Could Stretch into Russia

Safety issues of rented e-scooters are not new, yet the total ban in the French capital surprised many around the world. In Russia, it inspired calls for a French-style...

By Roma Nazarov

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16th May 2023

Ukraine’s Car-Sharing Ecosystem Becomes Battle Hardened

For Ukraine’s car-sharing providers, the war with Russia has been a time of the most extreme of challenges. Apart from the fact that many cars have been destroyed or...

By Roma Nazarov

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3rd April 2023

E-mobility Providers Fail to Save Rental e-Scooters in Paris

Micro-mobility has taken a hit with the impending ban of rented e-scooters in Paris, Europe’s biggest adopter of the technology. Parisians have voted overwhelmingly to ban the use of...

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14th March 2023

Lean Pickings for Automakers from Short-Term Rentals

No industry in the world is immune from fads and that includes the automobile industry. Earlier this century, short-term car leasing was one of those trends, an upstart segment...

By Eric Volkman

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1st March 2023

Russian Government set to Grab All Taxi Consumer Data

A taxi law giving the Russian government a monopoly over consumer data was passed in December 2022 and is aimed at Russian providers’ many problems such as illegal trips,...

By Roma Nazarov

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28th December 2022

From Software-as-a-Service to Vehicle-as-a-Digital-Service

For quite a while there have been concepts such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and now with the increasing digitalization and connected automation of the automotive experience, a new paradigm has...

By Graham Jarvis

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28th December 2022

Toyota Applies AI to its US Commercial Fleet Customers

Toyota has turned to an AI powered data specialist to offer commercial fleets in North America real-time insights aimed at making connected operations safer and cost-effective. CerebrumX Labs has...

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14th November 2022

Europeans Want City Parking Turned into Green Spaces, Says Lynk & Co

Mobility provider Lynk & Co is calling for city mobility to be “reimagined” following a survey suggesting most Europeans want few vehicles and more open spaces in their cities....

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8th November 2022

Challenges of Regulating an On-Demand Mobility Service

In February of this year, the European Commission announced several initiatives regarding the regulation of mobility services. It adopted a guidance notice for national and local authorities that clarifies...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz

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1st November 2022

Prerequisites to Having On-Demand Mobility

In October, The Routing Company (TRC) announced the launch of Pingo Journey, which offers users on-demand transit and end-to-end journey planning in one app. It delivers Google Maps functionality...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz

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