GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion. This time, it’s not just to a new city. Maven plans to open up its new peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to rent out non-GM vehicles. It is also setting its sights on bigger changes in the future, according to Julia Steyn, vice president of GM Urban […]
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Sequoia backs Maven, a virtual health clinic for women
Maven has raised a $27 million Series B co-led by Sequoia and Oak HC/FT, bringing its total raised to date to $42 million.
View More Sequoia backs Maven, a virtual health clinic for womenTech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today
On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. Given its size, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI, is alluring for major cloud computing companies that might not normally do much business with the Department of Defense. Announced in March, […]
View More Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting todayDaimler’s car2go car sharing service adds its first U.S. city in four years
Car2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, launched in Chicago this week—the company’s 25th market globally. The car-sharing company, which lets customers rent out vehicles on a short-term basis, has been steadily expanding in the past several years, adding to and changing up its fleet beyond the diminutive Smart cars that were once the […]
View More Daimler’s car2go car sharing service adds its first U.S. city in four yearsGM launches a peer-to-peer car sharing service
General Motors is launching a new service in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan that will let owners rent out their personal GM-branded vehicles through its Maven car-sharing platform. The peer-to-peer car rental service, similar to how Turo and Getaround works, is a departure from Maven’s existing business model. This isn’t the first time Maven […]
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A new dedicated charging network from the company EVgo hopes to reduce charging stress for ride-hailing and gig economy drivers in rented electric vehicles.
General Motors’ Maven car-share service rents electric Bolts to drivers on apps like Uber and Lyft. Drivers using the Maven service will get access to the new charging network — it’s just for drivers on the program. The rest of the EV driving public can’t use these stations.
EVgo, a nationwide charging network with 1,000 fast chargers across the country, is building out fast charging stations where Maven, a service that rents out cars from its fleet of GM vehicles, is already active. The dedicated charging stations will first open in San Francisco later this year and then expand into other cities, like Boston, Los Angeles, and San Diego with a couple hundred stations sprinkled throughout those areas. Read more…
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View More New charging network encourages Uber and Lyft drivers to go electricGM plans to launch a car-sharing program this year
General Motors is staying tight-lipped about a new Bloomberg report that suggests the company’s Maven car-sharing program will soon allow GM car owners to rent out their vehicles to strangers for brief periods of time through the app.
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GM said to pilot peer-to-peer car sharing through its Maven brand
Automaker General Motors is said to be planning a new peer-to-peer car rental service, similar to existing offerings by Daimler-backed Turo and startup Getaround, to debut as early as this summer according to Bloomberg. The service will debut in a test pilot set to begin this summer, under GM’s Maven mobility sub-brand, per the report, and will allow GM car owners to list their vehicles… Read More
Maven brings its Maven Gig service for on-demand economy workers to Austin
Maven has launched its Maven Gig offering in Austin, just ahead of SXSW when there will probably be a fair amount of ride-hailing and on-demand food delivery activity. Maven Gig is the arm of GM’s Maven mobility brand that caters specifically to gig economy workers, with cars available to freelancers who drive only occasionally, and only essentially to offer ride-hailing services via… Read More
GM expands Maven car sharing to Toronto
GM has launched its first major international city for its Maven car sharing product. The service is going live in Toronto, Canada’s largest city by population, with rates beginning at $9 per hour which include gas and insurance coverage. The launch follows a prior pilot in the Waterloo region nearby, but Toronto is the first launch at scale Maven has undertaken outside of the U.S.… Read More
Valet startup Zirx relaunches as Stratim, a mobility service for GM’s Maven, Ford’s Chariot and others
When Zirx announced last February its plans to shut down its on-demand valet parking startup, it wasn’t clear what the company meant when it said it would focus on the enterprise. Today, Zirx co-founder Sean Behr is pulling the curtains off of Stratim, a platform for enterprise clients to manage their car fleets. Over the last year or so, Stratim has been conducting pilot tests with… Read More