Vancouver, British Columbia, is the first Canadian city selected to launch the car2go innovative mobility service.car2go Canada Ltd is a newly created company which is a subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, which will also be located in Vancouver.
car2go was first launched in Ulm, Germany, three years ago, it was successfully rolled out a year later in North America in Austin, Texas. To date, a total of more than 35,000 customers have joined the car2go program in Ulm and Austin. There have been more than 600,000 fully automated rental transactions, averaging between 10 and 60 minutes. car2go was also recently introduced in Hamburg, Germany, and becomes operational in Amsterdam in the Netherlands at the end of 2011. As a city whose mandate is to become the world’s greenest city by 2020, Vancouver was a natural choice for the expansion of car2go in North America. Read more: www.benzinsider.com 
