by dankeelan | Mar 23, 2023 | Business, Car Sharing
There are many new models of car use and ownership being explored. Upshift is a San Francisco startup offering what it calls fractional car subscription — a type of car-share, though they don’t call it that. Customers pay a fee to have a car for 8 days per month, for...
by dankeelan | Aug 18, 2022 | Business, Car Sharing, Smart Cities
As cars become electrified and connected, there’s another debate emerging. Once vehicles can reliably drive autonomously at Level 5, should we continue to own them? Some visions of the Smart City of the future foresee public transport and self-driving taxi services as...
by dankeelan | Sep 17, 2020 | Car Sharing, Electric Vehicles
Uber is committing to being more environmentally friendly, announcing on Tuesday that all its vehicles around the globe will be electric by 2040. The ride-hailing app said it will spend $800 million through 2025 to help drivers switch to battery-powered vehicles,...
by dankeelan | Jul 23, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Car Sharing, Detroit
Self-driving car company Waymo LLC and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) are expanding their autonomous vehicle partnership to commercial vehicles, and Fiat Chrysler will develop fully self-driving vehicles exclusively with Waymo going forward, the companies said...
by dankeelan | Jun 25, 2020 | Car Sharing, Detroit, Featured, Safety
The latest challenge for the autonomous vehicle industry: How to assure passengers that the car they are getting in is virus free, even if it doesn’t have a driver. Widespread use of autonomous vehicles already had been delayed by a March 2018 fatal crash...
by dankeelan | Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Car Sharing
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
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