Share Now

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Share Now
SHARE NOW company logo.png
NIST Sector Transportation
GICS Industrial Transportation
Smart Tag(s)
Business type "Public Company" is not in the list (Sole proprietorship, Partnership, Nonprofit, Other, Federal Government, State Government, Local Government, Public, Employee Owned, Private, ...) of allowed values for the "Has biztype" property.
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

SX18-Austin-Skyline-Judy-Won-640x360.png 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.

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