BlaBlaCar partners with Voi Technology to offer e-scooters in France

BlaBlaCar partners with Voi Technology to offer e-scooters in France

Published: 26-05-2020 14:58:00 | By: Bob Koigi | hits: 4706 | Tags:

As cities emerge from lockdown across France, the need for access to safe and sustainable transport is critical. Carpooling platform BlaBlaCar has chosen to extend its offer and partner with Swedish electric scooters company Voi Technology to offer BlaBla Ride Scooters.

In the coming months, BlaBlaCar and Voi Technology will build a seamless integrated experience. BlaBlaCar’s 18 million members in France will be able to connect through their BlaBlaCar account on the BlaBla Ride app.

 Members will also be able to select a scooter to ride on the last mile of a longer carpool or bus trip, powering a convenient and environmentally efficient door-to-door journey. Together, through their complementary expertise and user bases, BlaBlaCar and Voi can help make scooters available and reliable across large French cities and provide a responsible service respectful of local regulations.

The first step of the partnership will consist in co-branding Voi’s app and scooters as BlaBla Ride, starting on June 5th. Current Voi users in France won’t face any significant changes other than Voi app and scooters progressively including the new BlaBla Ride brand identity.

Fredrik Hjelm, Co-Founder and CEO, Voi Technology: “I am very pleased with this partnership. We are both leaders in our field and share the passion of reducing car emissions and fostering shared mobility. By working together, we will create the best of both worlds and at the same time both companies can focus on their respective strengths - so it’s a win-win all around.”

Nicolas Brusson, Co-Founder and CEO, BlaBlaCar: “Voi and BlaBlaCar have a common enemy: inefficient car usage and CO2 emissions. By joining forces, we can go one step further in making mobility smarter and more efficient in cities. This cooperation has been a long time in the making, but now it seems more than ever relevant to our members in the wake of Covid-19, and as regulation creates a clearer playing field for micro-mobility. Scooters and micro-mobility can transform the way that people live, work and move through cities just as carpooling has transformed long-distance travel.”

BlaBlaCar’s multimodal offer now spans from long-distance carpooling (BlaBlaCar) and buses (BlaBlaBus), to carpooling on commuting distances (BlaBlaLines) and now intra-city micro-mobility with BlaBla Ride.

www.blablacar.com

www.voiscooters.com