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German carmaker Audi announced the purchase Silvercar s, starting U S which is helping to develop and offer rental via an application and mobility services.
Silvercar specializes in transparent car rental services controlled app was recently named best service car rental in North America by the World Travel Awards for the services it currently operates from a number of airports US.
Audi and Silvercar share the same vision, said Dietmar Voggenreiter, board member for sales and marketing at Audi AG We want to open a new flexibility to access mobility for our customers while providing top quality in every respect.
In addition to the gasoline trade in favor of powertrain electric motor, the other huge change about to engulf the automotive industry set up is a movement just build cars to provide customers with mobility solutions .
These solutions could be as simple as your favorite store and daily schedule or give you digital resources routes to rent your car to others when you aren t using.
Audi has tested the waters in this regard of the pilot projects in several US cities, such as Audi demand in San Francisco, which allow users to reserve the use of private cars for specific uses at specific times and the vehicle is delivered to their door, using the Silvercar digital expertise.
This transition to the mobility of manufacture is why Ford has this week announced an investment of 300 million in a new research facility in Canada and a doubling of its team of engineering mobility and connectivity.
As well as investment from Ford, this week saw also the parent company of Mercedes-Benz Daimler double its efforts to provide China Car sharing initiatives by combining two of its companies - car2go Car2Share and China - into one service the move means that users will be able to access free and floating post vehicles for private use on-demand services are already rising 250,000 registered users who have recorded a combined total of 5 million kilometers in 2016.
Frost Sullivan predicts that by 2025, 36 million people worldwide use the services, carsharing a significant jump of 7 million registered users at the end of 2015.
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