Car2Go Shutting Down Service in Calgary Oct 31 2019

[Tik-Tok]

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They're not bending over backwards. If you read the article, this is merely an exit interview. They just have no clue why Calgary became undesirable to Car2Go. It's probably something as simple as financials and has nothing to do with us.

It's the least they can do for all the poor inner city folk that relied on the service to be Carless. City is pro density, and this is a huge backwards step to a high density urban utopia that Council wants for us.

If Uber pulled out, do you think there would be an exit interview?

[pheoxs]

Just noticed all the lime scooters and bird scooters are gone. Only the lime bicycles now.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Just noticed all the lime scooters and bird scooters are gone. Only the lime bicycles now.

They take them away for the Winter I believe, though I am not sure if they are coming back in the Spring or not. They seemed popular at first but the novelty definitely wore off (many people seemed to be just riding for fun to get their Instagram shot), at least in terms of how many people I saw riding them and vs how many are sitting around available before they took them away. Either that or they added a bunch more scooters near the end.

[pheoxs]

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They take them away for the Winter I believe, though I am not sure if they are coming back in the Spring or not. They seemed popular at first but the novelty definitely wore off (many people seemed to be just riding for fun to get their Instagram shot), at least in terms of how many people I saw riding them and vs how many are sitting around available before they took them away. Either that or they added a bunch more scooters near the end.

Just surprised, there was no announcement or push notification. The app FAQ just had they shrink the zone for November but I guess that means bikes only for winter

[AndyL]

The juicers are being told to hold or deliver to the base, not to release in the cold... Pretty sure cutoff for the season is November

[ercchry]

Would love to witness the chaos of limes in the +15 system for winter

[pheoxs]

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The juicers are being told to hold or deliver to the base, not to release in the cold... Pretty sure cutoff for the season is November

Wonder if that means they’ll roll back out in a few days once the sidewalks are clear. In theory it’s super easy to deploy and activate them for a week and then pull them again

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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The juicers are being told to hold or deliver to the base, not to release in the cold... Pretty sure cutoff for the season is November

Yeah, cutoff for the scooters is Nov 1 until... March? They're back next year as well, as the pilot runs until Oct 2020.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Bird scooters were back out today.

[TomcoPDR]

Looking at car2go map, FEELS like they’ve thinned out the fleet a bit.

[pheoxs]

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Looking at car2go map, FEELS like they’ve thinned out the fleet a bit.

Definitely thinned out. Tried using one on the weekend and none to be had anywhere nearby. Even today there's normally 20 in the James short parkade around lunchtime and I saw <5 in the app today and none now (2pm). Usually there is lots until 4pm.

Definitely clearing them out, just curious if they are shipping elsewhere or starting to unload them

[Xtrema]

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Just noticed all the lime scooters and bird scooters are gone. Only the lime bicycles now.

They are still littered everywhere. End of POC for this season is Oct 31st. Funny would see kids trick or treat with them.

As for Car2Go, I wonder if selling Smart to the Chinese and Smart pulling out of America basically killed the service. I assume the service can't survive on CLA/GLA. It's inevitable, Renault doesn't want to sign up to build another generation of Smart and it turned into a fire sale of the brand to Geely. Looks like Geely will continue Smart in Europe as EVs.

[Manhattan]

Used car2go on the weekend and at the end of the trip the app said the car was offline. Couldn't end the rental so had to call support who locked it remotely. Guessing that was the last trip for that GLA.

[ExtraSlow]

All the Mercs will be on dealer lots as "certified pre-owned" very soon.

[pheoxs]

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They are still littered everywhere. End of POC for this season is Oct 31st. Funny would see kids trick or treat with them.

As for Car2Go, I wonder if selling Smart to the Chinese and Smart pulling out of America basically killed the service. I assume the service can't survive on CLA/GLA. It's inevitable, Renault doesn't want to sign up to build another generation of Smart and it turned into a fire sale of the brand to Geely. Looks like Geely will continue Smart in Europe as EVs.

That was posted during the snowfall we had, and they did all disappear but they rolled them back out a few days later. I'm guessing they'll do the same until the snow sticks. Although their app says it'll be a smaller zone as of November.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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All the Mercs will be on dealer lots as "certified pre-owned" very soon.

It's going to cost them a fortune to 'certify' all those heavily abused POS' haha. I feel bad for anyone who buys one without knowing what it was beforehand.

[ExtraSlow]

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It's going to cost them a fortune to 'certify' all those heavily abused POS' haha. I feel bad for anyone who buys one without knowing what it was beforehand.

To be fair, I don't know the process for Mercedes. I can say with some certainty that some of the higher volume brands bring back former rental cars and "certify" them, which in most cases involves nothing more than typing the nine letters in the word C-E-R-T-I-F-I-E-D and hoping nothing is wrong. Maybe Mercedes does it differently?

[rage2]

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To be fair, I don't know the process for Mercedes. I can say with some certainty that some of the higher volume brands bring back former rental cars and "certify" them, which in most cases involves nothing more than typing the nine letters in the word C-E-R-T-I-F-I-E-D and hoping nothing is wrong. Maybe Mercedes does it differently?

They just make sure checklist is checked. Good tires, good brakes, no windows cracked, and no big damage. The rest is all dealt with at the warranty level.

There was a guy that bought a CPO C63 and it was an ex-ADA track car.

[ExtraSlow]

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They just make sure checklist is checked. Good tires, good brakes, no windows cracked, and no big damage. The rest is all dealt with at the warranty level.

There was a guy that bought a CPO C63 and it was an ex-ADA track car.

Then it sounds like virtually every automaker has the same "not much of a hassle" process.

[killramos]

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They just make sure checklist is checked. Good tires, good brakes, no windows cracked, and no big damage. The rest is all dealt with at the warranty level.

There was a guy that bought a CPO C63 and it was an ex-ADA track car.

Reminds me of the story of the guy in Britain who realized his M3 was thrashed by Clarkson on top gear.