In February 2018 in the capital, a new large carsharing service will begin to work. The company “Yandex” will launch its own project “Yandex Drive”.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, the new service will have its own fleet of cars including models Kia Rio, Kia Rio X-Line and Renault Kaptur. Currently, applications for iOS or Android are collecting applications for registration. The customers who registered on the service before the end of January 2018, will receive 20% of the “Yandex Taxi» services’ cost to the account in” Yandex. Drive”. After the carsharing service is launched the accumulated money can be spent on car rent.
The price of the service “Yandex. Drive ” has not been determined yet. Earlier the company had already have an experiment with car sharing service, but later on refused from this idea. According to Yandex representatives, “the existing “Yandex Transport” service will do the best with informing the potential clients about the availability of a car for rent.”
As of October 2017, the capital’s car rental park consistes of 3,635 units of equipment, and the number of users was 350,000. Currently, there are about 10 companies operating on the market, and the number of trips reaches 1.6 million. Experts believe that in the future this sector will actively expand, which will force automakers to review the entire strategy of transport development.
