electric vehicles

How would you sum up 2025? Guirec Grand-Clément - The short-term hire market accounts for around 10% of vehicle registrations in France, and this was still the case in 2025. Although car hire companies do not disclose the size of their fleets, the registration figures for international chains, independent car hire companies and franchises...

Although the short-term hire market has recovered nicely since the Covid was launched, it is still experiencing setbacks with the 100% electric vehicles, which are far from being in demand from business and leisure customers alike. This is due to fears about range, charging times and charges... Internal combustion vehicles remain...

How would you sum up 2024 at Uber for Business? Franck Monsauret - The results for 2024 were good, and we believe - or at least hope - that this will not change in 2025. For us, 2024 was a reference year, which will serve as a kind of benchmark for...

Elon Musk is very much involved in politics - and controversy - but he occasionally returns to one of his core businesses: mobility. At the "We, Robot" keynote, the Tesla boss presented two new electric vehicles with great fanfare. Their point...

After establishing itself in the Netherlands last December, the Sixt charge application is now making its way to the French market, as well as Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg. The German car hire company claims to be "the first car hire company to offer its customers a recharging solution integrated into a car...

While several major players in the mobility sector are slowing down or even backing away from the electric car, the latest study published by BCD Travel would seem to confirm their decision... If the business travel agency is to be believed, business travellers are still very reluctant to adopt this option. Of the 919 professionals...

London Gatwick is going electric with the inauguration of an Electric Forecourt station under the Gridserve banner. Electric vehicles will now have access to 30 large and low-power chargers, powered entirely by net zero emission energy. In addition to these contactless payment terminals, the site on the southern bypass of the southern terminal...

This is the sine qua non for the advent of electric mobility aimed at reducing the impact of travel, particularly business travel: the installation of charging stations. And Uber is no exception to the rule. So the mobility specialist is joining forces with another major player to take up this challenge: Carrefour,...

Do you see a positive trend in business travel since last year? P.-O. Bard - There has been no real change. The level is still lower than it was in 2019, even though our activity is now slightly recovering. This trend shows that the corporate market is quite dynamic. The...

AccorInvest, B&B Hotels, the Barrière group, Louvre Hotels and Radisson, which plans to equip all its European hotels with recharging stations by 2025: the number of solutions adapted to the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing in the hotel industry. But this trend is not unique to France and Europe. In the United States, Hilton has just announced...

The trend will not have escaped the attention of French businesses: 2022 will have been a year of high car hire costs, to say the least. The Ground Monitor report published by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) confirms this surge in prices. The price study even estimates the increase in car hire prices at +15.4 %....

The expected disappearance of combustion-powered cars by 2035 is already shaking things up in the automotive world. According to Avere-France, the national association for the development of electric mobility, the market share of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles was 18.3 % last year, compared with 15 % in 2021 and just over...

There are some changes that, despite their relative aesthetic 'sobriety', add a whole new dimension to an online tool. Such is the case with the tab recently integrated into the Uber for Business interface. A new "Sustainable Development" entry is now available to travel managers, who can access all the information they need on sustainable...

From one edition to the next, this is undoubtedly one of the great showcases of the VivaTech trade fair, this flurry of futuristic inventions heralding the imminent arrival of flying taxis in the skies over major cities, as well as autonomous cars and soon even... houses in the clouds. Start-up Hover City, for example, has invented 'mobile' real estate. And all at the whim of...

In line with its environmental strategy, aimed at achieving its "Net-Zero Carbon" objective by 2030, FreeNow is preparing to take a new step forward. The multimodal platform has just unveiled a new partnership with Tier. The micro-mobility operator's electric scooters and scooters will be added to the FreeNow solution. As a result, business travellers will be able to...

In its 50 years of existence, European aerospace giant Airbus has established itself as a pioneer in the use of cutting-edge aeronautical technologies. As Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury explains: "The Airbus story is one of ambition and progress, a showcase for European integration. Over the past 50 years, the company has pioneered many firsts...