Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
Last Updated : 2024-04-25 17:36:00
The CEO of German auto giant Daimler AG Dieter Zetsche (R) and CEO of German carmaker BMW Harald Krueger presenting the merger of their car sharing activities in Berlin
BERLIN (AFP) - German auto giants BMW and Daimler said yesterday they would invest one billion euros (US$1.1 billion) in combining and extending their carsharing schemes DriveNow and Car2Go, in future offering a slew of ‘mobility services’, including for electric cars.
“We are pooling the strength and expertise of 14 successful brands and investing more than one billion euros to establish a new player in the fast-growing market for urban mobility,” Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler said in a statement.
The two high-end manufacturers will organise their ‘mobility’ businesses around five joint ventures.
Customers will be able to book shared cars, hail rides from taxis and chauffeur services, find and pay for parking spots and electric car charging points and plan ‘multimodal’ journeys -- pulling in alternatives like public transport and bike rentals.
All five strands will follow BMW’s naming scheme with titles like Park Now and Charge Now.
“These five services will merge ever more closely to form a single mobility service portfolio,” BMW CEO Harald Krueger said.
Still further in the future, the two firms will offer “an all-electric, self-driving fleet of vehicles that charge and park autonomously and interconnect with other modes of transport,” he added.
BMW and Daimler’s carsharing and other services like Park Now or MyTaxi today boast a combined 60 million customers, the companies said.
The new joint venture will be based in German capital and tech industry hub Berlin, and create “up to 1,000” jobs worldwide, they added.
Add comment
Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.
Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
US authorities are currently reviewing the manifest of every cargo aboard MV
On March 26, a couple arriving from Thailand was arrested with 88 live animal
According to villagers from Naula-Moragolla out of 105 families 80 can afford
Is the situation in Sri Lanka so grim that locals harbour hope that they coul