The City of Los Angeles has failed in its bid for dismissal of the lawsuit filed last summer by Turo Inc. (formerly RelayRides), a peer-to-peer car-sharing company that objects to being taxed and otherwise treated like a traditional car-rental company for car-sharing transactions at or near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). On January 14, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied most of the city's motion to dismiss Turo Inc. v. City o

A cleantech group’s research predicts that electric vehicles will be more economical than hybrids by 2025. The business case for electrifying ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft is looking better and better. Right now, hybrid vehicles are the most economical choice for drivers of ride-hailing services, but a recent reportprojects that long-range electric vehicles will surpass hybrids as the cheapest option by 2025. The report from the International Council on Clean Te

We take rides from people operating their own cars with Uber and Lyft. We stay in others’ personal apartments and houses through Airbnb. It makes sense that one day we might also rent commercial vehicles from one another too. In fact, this is a growing trend, as many business owners, fleet managers, drivers, and other industry professionals are beginning to engage in peer-to-peer rentals. Because hundreds of thousands of commercial vehicles are bought and sold on Commercial T

Zipcar, the world’s leading car-sharing network and a company that helped define the sharing economy, today released the findings of its 2018 Impact Report during the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The report – for the first time – comprehensively captures key findings gathered over Zipcar’s eighteen years of mobility leadership. The findings, combined with objective third-party research, offer tangible evidence that car sharing continues to

Cox Automotive’s six-month old Mobility Group has jumped into the business of servicing fleets ranging from a single Uber or Lyft driver’s vehicle to full rental car or government agencies stable of hundreds or thousands of vehicles. The new unit, named Pivet, launches Monday. In an interview in Detroit this weekend, Joe George, President, Cox Automotive Mobility Group and John Kovac, Cox Automotive Chief Marketing Officer, laid out Pivet’s mission and how it plans to serve n