Daimler Financial Services announced today a record in total number of customers for mobility services worldwide. In May 2018, the customer base for car2go, moovel and mytaxi totalled 22.9m customers, an 88% year-on-year increase.
Mytaxi posted the strongest growth, up 116%, compared to the previous year with 14.9 million customers. Urban mobility company moovel has grown by 74% in comparison to the previous year. Car2go, a market leader in free-floating car sharing, accounted for approximately 3.2 million customers worldwide at the end of May 2018.
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Bodo Uebber, board member of Daimler responsible for finance & controlling and Daimler Financial Services, said: “This growth clearly demonstrates that we are delighting new customers with our services worldwide. As the inventor of the automobile, Daimler will not leave the stage to others when it comes to urban mobility of the future.
“With the announcement of a planned joint venture with BMW, we are taking a further step toward strategic bundling and efficiency of our services. We expect our mobility services to further complement metropolises and future smart cities.”
Last month, Daimler Financial Services invested in the transport service provider Taxify. Daimler Financial Services also has shares in the shuttle service Via, the limousine driver service Blacklane, and the American peer-to-peer car-sharing platform Turo. Daimler Financial Services has been a shareholder in Flixmobility, the mobility provider for the FlixBus and FlixTrain brands, since 2013.
Klaus Entenmann, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Daimler Financial Services, said: “Our offerings are already aligned to the urban mobility of tomorrow. 10,000 purely electric trips daily give us important data and information today for developing an intelligent infrastructure for the electric age. At the same time, car sharing, ride-hailing or app-based communal trips contribute to keeping the air clean and reducing traffic in inner-city areas. Our aim remains emission-free mobility.”
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By GlobalDataDaimler’s financial services division reported a 5% year-on-year increase for Q1 earnings, running counter to a significant profit fall in its parent group.
