Gurugram-based 1mg, for example, is looking to immediately hire 500 people and another 1,000 over the next 2-3 months
The company, which rents cars by the hour, day, week and month, has Mahindra E2O Plus and Tata E Tigor available on the platform for which it charges a subscription fee of Rs 15,000-20,000 per month
ZoomCar has raised $103.8 million in funding as yet
Zoomcar has a fleet of 3,000 cars and plans to add another 5,000 vehicles in the next quarter
Zoomcar and Mahindra will work closely on electric charging infrastructure to further expand the use cases for EVs
BS ReporterHyderabad, 23 November: Setting a new trend in shared and electric mobility, the car rental company Zoomcar on Thursday said fifty percent of its fleet would be electric vehicles in the next 2 years.This will be big number since the promoters of the self-drive platform have been planning to build a fleet of 25,000 vehicles in the next 2 years as compared to 3,000 cars being currently run by the company across 27 cities in the country."An electric car has all the right ingredients of being a convenient vehicle to drive within the city. On top it, the battery capacity is going to be in the range of 300-400 km per single charge in the next two years. As driving an EV is lot easier, women, in particular, are expected to prefer EVs more in coming days," Greg Moran, co-founder and CEO of Bangalore-based car rental company said here.The company has added 20 e2o Plus model cars to its fleet of 200 cars in Hyderabad on Thursday after it had launched the EV initiative in Mysore last .
Bengaluru-headquartered self drive car rental company Zoomcar aims to go global with the launch of its operations in South East Asia and Africa next year."Zoomcar is very much an India focused company but we are looking at international operations. We plan to launch operations in South East Asia and Africa markers next year", said Greg Moran, chief executive officer and co-founder at Zoomcar India Pvt Ltd.In the country, Zoomcar has presence in 27 cities. Apart from metros and Tier-I cities, the company is aiming to penetrate into the Tier-III locations as well. Zoomcar launched its services in Bhubaneswar today and is eyeing Chhattisgarh as the next potential market."We believe Chhattisgarh can be a good market for us. In Bhubaneswar, our car fleet strength could go up to 200 within a year", Norman said.Zoomcar's pan-India car fleet stands at 3000 of which 80 per cent is company owned. The rest 20 per cent is provided by Zoomcar Associate Program (ZAP).Over the next six months, the ..
Zoomcar expects to cross 10,000 cycles on road in 2017 with much larger expansion plans to follow in 2018
Our aim is to be in 20-plus countries in the next two to three years, says Greg Moran
In August last year, Zoomcar had raised $24 million in funding from Ford Smart Mobility LLC
Banking on an asset light model to increase net margins by 30-40 per cent, self-drive car rental company, Zoomcar, is planning to more than triple its fleet size this year and expand its presence across 30 cities.Currently, the company's fleet comprises of 3,000 cars across 17 cities of which it owns around 2,000 cars and hopes to take the total fleet size to 10,000 by the end of 2017. However, it is now narrowed down upon steadily decreasing the count of owned cars and rely more on brining partners on board, which, as per the company will drive its future business."It is not advantageous to own a car which is more than two years old", Greg Moran, the company's CEO and co-founder said reasoning that the depreciation and wear and tear in company owned cars is much more than the ones which are owned by its partners.Under the asset light programme, Zoomcar, which claims to command a 70 per cent market share in the self-drive car rental space in India, is planning to have atleast 8,000 ...
The investment follows Zoomcar's Series B round of funding of $24 million earlier this year
Zoomcar is India's biggest app-based car rental as less than 10% of city residents own cars, reports Tech in Asia
"We target to have a fleet of 10,000 cars by end of 2017, which would go up to 25,000 cars by 2018 end," company CEO said.
Zoomcar will shortly roll out marketplace model branded as ZAP to increase fleet size
This is Ford's first invesment in the Indian start-up space