This graphic picture supplied by SoCar depicts a future SoCar station which offers charging, vehicle-to-grid, automobile supply and different services. (SoCar) |
The envisioned “super app” will enable customers to discover a number of modes of transit, reminiscent of car-sharing, buses, trains, and electrical bikes, to attain their locations within the quickest and only method, the corporate stated in a press release.
“The super app users can book an electric bike to reach a SoCar zone, a SoCar vehicle to reach a train station, and another SoCar vehicle to reach their destinations from the train station. Many other combinations are possible depending on the users’ demands,” it stated.
In different “streaming mobility” services, SoCar plans to begin delivering reserved autos to prospects in Seoul and neighboring Gyeonggi Province. Users can then return the autos to designated areas adjoining to their locations.
The car-sharping app firm stated it goals to present autonomous driving services beginning in South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju and the central administrative hub of Sejong and broaden the services to different cities. A selected timeframe for the services was not given.
“Future mobility platform companies will be market leaders as the key words of the future mobility market are electric vehicle and autonomous driving,” SoCar Chief Executive Park Jae-uk stated within the assertion.
SoCar customers at present decide up a automobile in a delegated space and return it to the identical place however the brand new app lets customers return borrowed autos to a special spot close to their locations.
The firm started the car-sharing enterprise with 100 autos in Jeju Island in 2011 and elevated the variety of autos to 18,000 this yr. The variety of customers soared to 7 million from 30 throughout the identical interval.
It goals to enhance the automobile fleet to 50,000 by 2027 and substitute all of SoCar autos with all-electric, hydrogen-powered and different environment-friendly ones by 2030. (Yonhap)