Daimler Launches car2go Electric Car-Sharing Program in Vancouver

Electric Car News | admin | April 27, 2011 at 1:57 pm

In a joint partnership with the city of Vancouver, Daimler is expanding its innovative mobility car2go car-sharing project in Canada with a fleet of 225 electric smart fortwo cars.

Tested again and again in Austin/Texas and Ulm/Germany, the car2go car sharing program will expand in Vancouver by June 2011, with the introduction of what will become the world’s first and largest fleet of electric cars meant for sharing.

Starting today until May 29, 2011, Vancouver residents can pre-register for their car2go membership without having to pay the registration fee (a $35 CAD value) at www.car2govancouver.com using Promo Code: VAN.

To date, a total of more than 35,000 customers have joined the car2go program in Ulm and Austin. There have been more than 600,000 fully automated rental transactions, averaging between 10 and 60 minutes.

car2go was also recently introduced in Hamburg, Germany, and becomes operational in Amsterdam in the Netherlands at the end of 2011. As a city whose mandate is to become the world’s greenest city by 2020, Vancouver was a natural choice for the expansion of car2go in North America.