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PSA to Add EV-Sharing Service in Paris
PSA Group will begin a car-sharing service in Paris late this year with a fleet of 500 electric Citroen and Peugeot cars.
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PSA Group will begin a car-sharing service in Paris late this year with a fleet of 500 electric Citroen and Peugeot cars.
The Free2Move service already operates a fleet of 65,000 vehicles in 10 countries. Customers may pick up a car in one location and leave it in another.
The announcement comes less than wo weeks after Paris canceled its contract with Autolib. The car-sharing service was launched in 2011 by French conglomerate Bollore Group, which also produced Autolib’s electric minicars.
Autolib served 150,000 customers in Paris with some 4,000 EVs. But the cars weren’t used enough to pay for their upkeep, and juggling supply with local demand was difficult. When the service proposed that Paris pay nearly €300 million ($350 million) over the next five years to subsidize operations, officials voted to dump the company instead.
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