Yandex launched a car sharing service for 5 rubles\/min • The Bell • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive

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02/21/2018

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Yandex launched a car sharing service for 5 rubles\/min

began operating carsharing service Today in Moscow and the Moscow region , the Yandex , the launch of which the company announced last year. Here's what you need to know about the new service:

The rental price starts from 5 rubles. When calculating the tariff, Yandex will evaluate the traffic situation and the demand for cars - other car sharing operators do not do this. Their prices, at least nominally, are higher: for example, Delimobil's tariffs start from 7 rubles per minute, BelkaCar and YouDrive - from 8 rubles per minute
Now the service has only per-minute billing, but fixed rates will soon appear.
So far, it is possible to complete the trip only inside the Moscow Ring Road, in Khimki, Mitino, Krasnogorsk, in Northern and Southern Butovo, Zhulebino, Novokosino and Sheremetyevo Airport.
includes fleet The Yandex.Drive 750 Kia Rio, Kia Rio X-Line and Renault Kaptur cars. This is less than the market leaders: Delimobil has more than 2 thousand cars, BelkaCar has 1.1 thousand.
The Yandex.Drive app has been available for IOS and Android since December 2017. Until the end of February, all users of the new service will receive 20% of the cost of trips to Yandex.Taxi to their Yandex.Drive account. In March and April, this money can be used to rent a car.
According to the Moscow Department of Transport, in November 2017, the car sharing market in Moscow consisted of 2,650 cars, and the number of users doubled over the year, to 350,000. The department estimated the potential of the market at 10-15 thousand cars.

What do I get from this?

If you already use carsharing, the Yandex service (at least) may be cheaper than competitors. If you only think about it, there is a chance to try it for free if you have time to accumulate cashback from trips to Yandex.Taxi. This will help prepare for the future - billionaire and famous investor Carl Icahn, for example, is confident that over the coming decades, people will completely abandon their own cars.

Anastasia Stogney