The American coffee giant Starbucks has announced that it will start delivering drinks and snacks from 2,000 of its stores in the US (25% of all stores). Uber Eats will be making the deliveries. The announcement comes after a…
Ride-sharing juggernauts Uber and Lyft have both announced that they have filed confidential documents for their initial public offering, an event long awaited by the financial industry. Lyft was trying to beat Uber to IPO, as the biggest ride-sharing company…
BMW says it will launch a ride-hailing service in China this month. The company is the first foreign car manufacturer to be granted a license to operate such a service. The service will be launched in the southwest of China,…
Russian truck-maker Kamaz announced that it will start a serial production of its Shuttle, a driverless vehicle, in 2022. According to the company, it is currently working on four prototypes, all equipped with the same technology. Kamaz will not debut…
General Motors announced that it will be allowing vehicles from other manufacturers on its peer-to-peer car sharing platform, Maven. Currently, only GM vehicles, manufactured after 2015 can be rented on the platform, with 60–40 revenue split between the owner of…
Lyft has unveiled a new self-driving car. It’s a Ford Fusion sedan with in-house autonomous driving technology. The company also announced that it will be acquiring an augmented reality startup Blue Vision. The company first announced that it would be…
During the Tesla’s quarterly earnings call, Elon Musk talked about “Tesla Network”, claiming that when it is launched it will put the company at an advantage over Uber and Lyft, due to its aim of autonomy. According to Musk’s vision,…
Tesla has removed a “full self-driving” option from its car store on its website. According to Elon Musk, the option will still be available “off-menu”, but will be phased out entirely until the company is ready to roll out the…
UZE Mobility, a startup based in the German city of Aachen, announced that it will be offering its StreetScooter electric vans free of charge to customers. The company hopes to generate revenue through other streams, most importantly from its ‘mobile…
ING has published a new report, Car Sharing Unlocked, in which the company claims that Europe will have up to 7.5 million shared vehicles by 2035, from today’s 370,000 (0.1% of all vehicles). According to the report, 30% of Europeans…