The car-sharing market in Berlin will continue to grow in the coming weeks rapidly. After the recent merger of Drive-Now (BMW) and Car-2-Go(Daimler) go together, 2600 vehicles in the capital and the announced launch of the VW-Sharings with 1500 electric cars in the spring are now two additional providers into the race: The car rental company Sixt brings to daily mirror information about more than 1000 vehicles on the streets of the capital, the Luxembourg Start-up Oply ready from today, Wednesday, 200 cars for the car sharing.

Regardless of the then approximately 5,300 vehicles in the station’s unbound Carsharing and several hundred other vehicles with fixed stations (Cambio, city of mobile, Flinkster, etc.) see the company in Berlin as an attractive growth market for the Parts of the cars. With less than 400 private Cars per 1000 households, the facilities of the Berlin households with private cars is relatively low. Add to that a well-developed public TRANSPORT network, which makes many journeys by car are unnecessary.

Berlin is particularly open to Sharing models

in addition, it shows that the residents of Berlin are particularly open to Sharing models. Almost half (45.2 percent), according to a representative study ready to rent things over Online platforms, more than a third (35.5 per cent) would offer their own items. This is the result of a Turo-commissioned representative survey, the world’s largest Online marketplace for private car sharing. Also, the private car sharing, Private Car can be shared, is met in Berlin on interest: More than every fourth Berliner car owners (26.3 percent) may well imagine, to give the own vehicle, every third (34.2 percent) is open to rent a Car from the private.

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In a big way want to return to the car rental company Sixt now in the professional car-sharing with the brand name “Sixt Share” order. This Thursday in Munich is officially the start of a new, group-wide mobility concept developed by the business unit “Project X”.

In the industry is speculating about already for some time under the name “Project One”. The goal is to connect what the car rental company has been in the company, in an intelligent way, as it is called. The new business model of Alexander and Konstantin Sixt, of the sons of 74-year-old company is driven founder, Erich Sixt. Was set up a private Backend Software to control the fleets, and the rental and billing system.

rides in the test phase, for a period of nine cents per kilometre

Sixt had built together with BMW the free-floating car sharing from Drive-Now successfully – including the completely Internet-based rental and billing system. However, the ways parted, Sixt was the sale of its 50 percent share of 209 million euros to pay.

A component of the new mobility brand of the Car rental company will now be the station-free Carsharing under the brand name “Sixt Share”. In a pilot project, Sixt testing the model for a good two weeks in Berlin – also with some electric vehicles (Renault Zoe).

users can already download a Smartphone App. Also, the tariff system is available online. In the test phase, the rides are starting at nine cents per Minute. The “product for the cities” will initially start in Berlin and at the company’s headquarters in Munich. Since Sixt has worldwide access to more than 200,000 vehicles, is expected to be rolled out the brand but in other cities. Sixt did not want to give Details with reference to the official start date of this Thursday for the price.

Senate wants to include the outer districts

Not only the big providers are flooding the market. Also Start-ups looking to profit from the Sharing-the readiness of Berlin. In Luxembourg, the company founded Oply combines the short-term rental classic car rental. Customers can take the Oply provided vans, sports cars, small station wagons, both for the spontaneous, short drive to and from work as well as for a planned weekend trip to the lake.

unlike the free-floating providers, the vehicle must be returned, however, in the Zone in which it was rented. The combination of the two concepts in a fleet it doesn’t, still says managing Director, Katharina Wagner, formerly with Car-2-Go. In comparison to the classic car hire the contact with employees is eliminated. The vehicles in the Oply fleet, all with an internal combustion engine, on could via the App automatically and to complete and pay.

And what is the Berlin Senate administration for environment, transport and climate protection from the local car-sharing Boom? You lead with all the vendors in the station car sharing-free regular talks, according to the transport administration. There are, on the one hand, to increase the share of electrically-operated car-sharing vehicles, “on the other, we have made it clear that it is precisely in the Berlin outskirts of car-sharing services should be expanded,” said a spokeswoman.

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