Wheelz

There’s consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space.  San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competitor Wheelz.  That includes all the assets, IP, and about 10 employees from Wheelz, which launched about a year-and-a-half ago.  Read More

Car-sharing service Wheelz is kind of like Zipcar, but instead of owning a fleet of vehicles itself, it’s making cars that are owned by regular folks available for rent.  So what does the Avis purchase of Zipcar mean for Wheelz, and the on-demand car-sharing market in general?  Read More

With the launch in its first urban market, Wheelz will be going up against existing peer-to-peer car-sharing services RelayRides and Getaround.  But it seeks to differentiate itself by installing hardware in cars that will facilitate the process of actually renting cars over the Internet and on mobile devices.  Read More

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar.  Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion.  It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves.  Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford… Read More

Kicking it into fifth gear and zooming out of stealth and into the public sphere today is Wheelz, a new person-to-person car sharing platform for campuses — designed to connect students who have cars with student who need ’em.  Granted, when I first heard the basics on Wheelz, I immediately thought, “gadzooks, another car sharing platform!?”  What about RelayRides… Read More