Share Now

Share Now
NIST Sector	Transportation
GICS Industrial	Transportation
Smart Tag(s)
Business type	Public
Year Founded	2008
Founder(s)
City, State	Berlin
Country	Germany
Region Served	Worldwide
Executives	Olivier Reppert
Revenue	$95.68 million€ 84.198 <br />£ 70.803 <br />CA$ 121.514 <br />CNY 605.654 <br />KRW 117.251 <br />
Number of employees	241
Sponsorship Level	Of Interest

Members

SHARE NOW GmbH is a German carsharing company, formed from the merger of car2go and DriveNow. It is a joint venture of the Mercedes-Benz Group and BMW providing carsharing services in urban areas in Europe, and formerly in North America. It has over four million registered members and a fleet of over 14,000 vehicles in 18 cities across Europe.

The company offers only Smart, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mini, Fiat and Citroën vehicles and arranges one-way point-to-point rentals. Users are charged by the minute, or by hourly and daily rates. A smartphone app is used to enable hirers to access the vehicle.

Activities

		Smart Work Learn Play - Participatory Smart City Innovation and Digital Inclusion in Public and Subsidized Housing
		Smart Work Learn Play, initiated by the Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA), with support from Next Century Cities, the Transit Empowerment Fund and the City of Austin’s Digital Inclusion and Transportation departments, aims to ensure that the design, deployment and use of smart cities technologies are inclusive and equitable. The program hires HACA-resident Smart City Ambassadors to work local government and corporate partners to: 1) teach HACA residents how to use digitally-enabled education, workforce and transportation tools; 2) advocate for and manage meaningful partnerships with private smart city technology providers; 3) engage in democratic processes, online and face-to-face with local and other government officials; 4) participate in design of smart city systems and tools with a wide array of actors. This project has successfully conducted a small pilot phase with non-profit and corp partners. In this stage, we will build on that pilot to encompass a broad array of smart city issues, technologies, tools and diverse low income populations.