Daimler said it car2go mobility unit kept growing in financial year 2016, boosting its customer base 43% to 2.2m with a car rented every 1.4 seconds somewhere in the world.
Berlin remains the largest car2go city, with 175,000 customers.
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Worldwide, the roughly 14,000 car2go vehicles have been rented more than 22m times, a 21% rise compared to the previous year's figure. The highest customer growth was seen in the cities Madrid (+96,000), Berlin (+47,000), Vancouver (+26,000) and Hamburg (+26,000).
Utilisation of the vehicles increased by approximately 40% between Q4 2015 and Q4 2016.
CEO Olivier Reppert said: "Car-sharing is still a dynamic growth market. We will continue to grow our business in the coming year, too – with new fleets, new offers and new products."
"Car2go is an integral part of our comprehensive mobility offer," said Klaus Entenmann, CEO of Daimler Financial Services. "More and more customers use our mobility services – and all of them have one thing in common: They want up-to-date, flexible and spontaneous mobility in their city – without owning a car."
