The Local Germany

Volkswagen to offer all-electric car-sharing from 2019 in Berlin

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:48:39 +0200

German auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday it would launch an all-electric car-sharing service in Berlin next year, hoping to show off new models and break into a fast-growing market.

Germany’s two major car-sharing services are about to merge into one

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:49:42 +0200

German carmakers Daimler and BMW said Wednesday they would merge their car-sharing services Car2Go and DriveNow, creating a European giant with around four million users to take on challengers like Uber.

Karlsruhe streets ahead of rest of Germany for car-sharing

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:00:57 +0100

A new ranking has revealed that Karlsruhe is the best city for car-sharing in Germany. But why does the Baden-Württemberg town fare so much better than everywhere else?

600,000 car-sharing users' details stolen in cyber attack

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:43:27 +0100

Hundreds of thousands of users of a now defunct German car-sharing website have had their bank account details stolen by hackers, it was announced on Tuesday.

Car-sharing accelerates rapidly in Germany

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 20:13:58 +0200

Car-sharing, pioneered in Switzerland in the 1970s, is gaining popularity across the globe as people shy away from the cost of owning and maintaining an automobile in big cities. And it is proving particularly successful in Germany, where carmakers themselves are keen to get a slice of the action.

Car-sharing trip turns into cocaine nightmare

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:17:05 +0200

Austrian police are searching for a 30-year-old man who allegedly forced a car-pooling woman into working as a courier for his drug deliveries around Germany.

Drivers could save €1,000 a year by ditching cars

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:22:00 +0200

Drivers who don’t use their cars often could save up to €1,000 a year by getting rid of their vehicle and signing up to a car-sharing scheme, a German consumer organisation said on Friday.

Sharing the steering wheel

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:14:00 +0200

Germany might be a car-crazy country, but it can also be a prohibitively expensive place to have your own ride. Rhea Wessel reports on the growing interest in car-sharing services.