micro-mobility

Europcar Mobility Group has announced its decision to phase out its Europcar on Demand car-sharing service in France, as well as in Spain and Italy. Valérie Sauteret, Europcar Mobility Group's Group Director of Communication & Corporate Engagement, explains that the reason for this decision is that "operating costs are too high". Among the reasons...

The launch of the SNCF Connect app in January 2022 was complicated. How would you assess it one year on? Arnaud Coiffard - The year was divided into three phases. The first, for three months, was to iron out any bugs that may have existed so that the platform would be technically stable. The second was...

What is the new mobility card launched by Freenow? Benjamin Giovanni - The mobility card is linked to the Mobility Budget, launched last year. In other words, an allowance granted by the company to its employees, often on a monthly basis, for personal mobility use or for home-office journeys. In this way, companies can...

Business travellers whose companies are both FREENOW for Business and American Express customers for the centralised payment of their travel expenses will no longer have to download their receipts after their errands, or create expense reports. In fact, these key players in the business travel sector, each in their own field, have decided to...

Freenow surveyed 4,554 professionals in 9 European countries: France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Romania and Poland. The aim was to map out the future of corporate mobility, and in particular the place and future of the company car. Today, three out of ten French people (29%) have a company car, but the future of this...

Why did you launch the Mobility Budget in France at the end of last year? Benjamin Giovanni - There are several reasons. We became a multimodal platform in 2021. We cover several modes of micro-mobility in the major cities where we operate. In Paris, we are the only ones to offer the...

Seven months after its first attempt at publishing a business expenditure index - which was inevitably gloomy for the business travel industry - Jenji is at it again. Its new report, focusing on the second half of 2021, has delivered its findings. And it confirms the upturn in travel that began last year, at least in comparison...

At a time when cars are increasingly being pushed out of town centres to make way for so-called 'soft' mobility and pedestrians, the quality of public space reserved for pedestrians has become a real attraction for urban tourism. More and more cities are boasting about their...

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...

What are FREENOW's new environmental commitments? Auriane Nirascou - FREENOW is one of the leaders in mobility in Europe and VTC in France, and we are present in 10 countries and 100 cities on the European market. Given our influence, it is therefore our duty to...