Car sharing market of Russia

Car sharing is an umbrella term for a situation in which a person does not use their own car. The term covers several different ^[1]):

• car sharing - car rental;
• network taxi aggregators (sometimes called ridehailing, ride sharing, or car sharing);
• Carpooling ( sometimes ride sharing) - sharing a car simultaneously in the event of a trip in the same direction. It should be noted that in 2015-2016. this service began to be used by a number of large taxi aggregators (for example, Didi Chuxing, Uber, Gett).

The drivers of market development are:

• benefit to the consumer;
• an increase in the number of connected cars (smart car);
• active investments by automakers;
• unmanned technologies;
• increasing environmental requirements. Thus, car sharing is popularized in the Asia-Pacific region for environmental reasons.

Several car-sharing projects are presented on the Russian market, the largest of them operate in Moscow. According to J'son & Partners Consulting (Jason & Partners Consulting), car-sharing services are gaining popularity in Russia, the number of projects and the reach of cities are growing. The most popular in terms of the number of users in Russia are network taxi aggregators, as well as the BlaBlaCar carpooling project. Purely car-sharing services are still in the stage of testing and forming the market.

The target audience of car-sharing services is residents of young and middle-aged megacities who prefer independent driving to taxi services. At the same time, they seek to save on travel.

Basically, men 25-35 years old use the car-sharing service, the founders reported. In BelkaCar December 2016, representatives of the department transport Moscow reported that car-sharing operators plan to increase their fleet to 1-1.5 thousand units annually.

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2024

Growth of car sharing fleet in Moscow up to 40 thousand cars

The number of Moscow car sharing cars reached 40 thousand units, which is a record figure for the capital. Such data from the Moscow Department of Transport were released in mid-December 2024.

According to Izvestia, the achieved result exceeded the planned indicators by six years - according to the development strategy of the transport complex in Moscow, it was planned to achieve such a volume only by 2030. The mayor's office believes that success is associated with the effective interaction of the Moscow government, the traffic police and operator companies. According to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry Maxim Liksutov, the capital's car sharing retains the position of the largest in the world. Over nine years, the number of active users of the service has increased 123 times - from 30 thousand people in 2015 to 1.7 million users in 2024.

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Statistics from the Department of Transport show a significant increase in the security of the service. From January to November 2024, the number of accidents involving car sharing cars decreased by 17% compared to the same period in 2023. The average age of cars in the fleet is 1.5 years.

At the start of the launch of the service in 2015, there were 350 cars in the fleet, which were used by about 30 thousand people. Thanks to the support of the Moscow government and the work of companies, interest in car sharing has grown every year. We thank the service operators who, despite the difficulties, continued to update the park and increase its reliability and safety for users, "said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.

According to the Department of Transport, the authorities of the capital will continue to support the development of car sharing and its transition to electric vehicles in accordance with the instructions of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.^[2]

Car sharing "Sitidriv" purchased 1200 Belarusian Belgee crossovers

In early November 2024, the short-term car rental service Sitidriv announced the replenishment of the fleet with 1200 Belarusian-made Belgee X50 crossovers. The new cars will be available to users in Moscow and the Moscow region as part of the company's fleet expansion program. Read more here.

The number of corporate clients of car-sharing services in Russia has grown several times

Russian car-sharing companies note a significant increase in the number of corporate clients in the first half of 2024. This became known on August 2, 2024. The number of legal entities using car sharing services increased 1.5-2.5 times compared to the same period in 2023.

According to Kommersant, Delimobil recorded an increase in the number of corporate counterparties by 65% - up to 7 thousand clients. In BelkaCar, this figure increased by 20%, exceeding 2 thousand organizations. Citidrive announced the emergence of 500 new corporate partners.

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Financial indicators are also showing positive dynamics. Delimobil's revenue from working with corporate clients has tripled, and the volume of minutes sold has grown 2.5 times. Citidrive noted revenue growth of 60% in this segment, and BelkaCar - by 18%.

Experts attribute the growing demand for car sharing among companies to the overall increase in the number of business trips. According to Galina Polishchuk, managing director of the Wipservice business tourism operator, the volume of business trips in January-June 2024 increased by 13-16% compared to the same period in 2023.

Corporate customers choose car sharing due to predictable pricing policies and the possibility of savings. The use of car sharing allows companies to reduce the cost of fuel, car maintenance and paid parking. According to Citidriva, savings on transportation costs when using car sharing instead of taxis can reach 50% per month.

According to the estimates of the audit company B1, in November 2023, the average cost of a car-sharing car was ₽23 per 1 km, while a taxi was ₽39. In January-May 2024, the number of taxi trips throughout Russia decreased by 2%, while on car-sharing cars increased by 3%.^[3]

2023

Market growth by a third to 44 billion rubles

The volume of the Russian car sharing market in 2023 will reach 44 billion rubles, an increase of 33.3% compared to the previous year. Such data analysts B1 (previously the Russian division of E&Y) released at the end of December 2023.

As Kommersant writes with reference to a B1 study, the growth of the car sharing market in the Russian Federation is associated with a stagnation in demand for personal cars amid their sharp rise in price. In addition, the cost of owning a personal car has increased, and car loans have become less attractive, the researchers explain.

The volume of the Russian car sharing market in 2023 will reach 44 billion rubles

According to their estimates, on average for a year, short-term rent costs the consumer 35% cheaper than a taxi and costs three times less than using personal transport. According to analysts' calculations, in 2023 one kilometer of travel in car sharing costs 23 rubles, by taxi - already 39 rubles.

Experts interviewed by the publication note that the increasing costs of servicing and replacing the fleet are putting pressure on car-sharing operators. Rising costs will eventually be passed on to consumers. According to analysts, the average cost of a car sharing trip for 2023 has already increased by at least 10%.

According to the publisher of the project, Truesharing.ru Yuri Nikolaev, by the end of 2023 there are not many cities in Russia with sufficient density and solvency of the population and almost all of them already have car sharing services. So, as the expert notes, unlike scooters, the economic model of the car sharing service "is unlikely to converge" in cities with a population of less than 500 thousand people. In general, the final price for car-sharing users who can make a choice in favor of public transport if the price tag per minute or day is higher than their expectations and financial capabilities will remain an important factor, Nikolaev added.^[4]

Putin instructed to transfer car sharing to domestic cars

In early September 2023, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Cabinet to develop measures to stimulate the use of Russian cars in car sharing.

The Government of the Russian Federation... Taking into account the previously given instructions, consider issues related to the development and application of measures to stimulate the use of highly localized cars in the provision of car rental services, taking into account the possible volume of their production by the Russian automotive industry, if necessary, ensuring the introduction of appropriate amendments to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin website says.

Vladimir Putin

Back in June 2023, Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the requirements for localizing the production of cars for taxis and car sharing. Localization was proposed to be measured in points, similar to the norm on the admission of cars to participate in public procurement. Later, the head of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Andrei Kutepov, prepared clarifying amendments on the number of passing points: from January 1, 2024, at least 1 thousand points, from January 1, 2026, at least 2 thousand points, from January 1, 2028, at least 3 thousand points.

This initiative itself is useful in the current conditions - it is a very powerful support for domestic enterprises. The whole question is how it will be implemented - first of all, which models will be considered Russian. It is one thing if it is all cars produced in our country. A completely different picture develops if localization parameters are taken into account, for example, as is customary during public procurement, "Maxim Kadakov, editor-in-chief of Za Rulem, told Izvestia.[5]

2022

The volume of the car sharing market in Moscow and the Moscow region over the year increased by 30.9%, to ₽40 467.28 million

At the end of 2022, the car sharing market in Moscow and the Moscow region increased by 30.9% compared to 2021, reaching ₽40 467.28 million. This indicates a significant increase in interest in short-term rental car services among residents and visitors to the capital, despite a slowdown in growth rates compared to previous years. This became known in the summer of 2024.

This growth has become one of the most noticeable in recent years. With an increase in demand for car sharing services in 2022, there is also a decrease in growth rates, taking into account inflation, which amounted to 18.1%. The maximum market size was recorded in 2022, which exceeded all previous values. In 2021, the market volume amounted to ₽30 918.89 million, and in 2020 - ₽19 901.44 million.

According to information, in Department transport Moscow 2022 the number of trips to car sharing cars amounted to 48 million, which emphasizes the active use of the service. The car-sharing fleet included 30 thousand cars, which makes it the largest in the world. In 2022, the fleet was increased by 1 thousand cars, and the number of daily rented cars reached 132 thousand, with an average of six trips per car. It is curious that 48% of car sharing users have personal cars, but prefer to use car sharing.

The growth of the car sharing market in 2022 was also due to support from the Moscow Government, which increased the amount of subsidies for car sharing operators to ₽450 million. Thanks to these subsidies, operators have updated 15 thousand cars. In total, over the past five years, companies received ₽950 million subsidies, which made it possible to purchase 39 thousand new cars.

Among the most popular car models in car sharing in 2022 were Volkswagen Polo, Kia Rio, Nissan Qashqai, Cherry Tiggo and Haval Jolion. These cars are in high demand due to their economy and convenience when used in an urban environment, making them the best choice for short-term rentals.^[6]

Reducing the number of accidents in Moscow involving car sharing cars

In 2022, accidents involving car sharing cars in Moscow decreased by 12% - their number decreased to 392 from 443 accidents in 2021. This is evidenced by the data of the capital's Department of Transport, released at the end of January 2023.

Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the capital's government for transport, noted that the following helped to reduce road accidents:

• evaluation of driving style, on the basis of which the user rating is formed by car-sharing operators;
• fines and restrictions on access for dangerous driving in a car-sharing car.

Why the number of accidents involving car sharing cars in Moscow decreased in 2022

The reduction in accident rate was influenced by the reduction in the audience of the service due to the rise in price of services (the average check for a trip in 2022 increased by 28%) and the departure of some users abroad and other cities, said Peter Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Buckets movement. This thesis is partially confirmed by the data of the Department of Transport itself: at the end of 2021, the department named the figure of 50 million trips in the system of short-term car rental, at the end of 2022 - already 48 million (minus 4%), notes Kommersant"."

In 2022, 20 people died in an accident involving short-term rental cars in Moscow and 457 were injured of varying severity, which is 13% and 16% less than a year ago.

At the same time, according to Peter Shkumatov, by the beginning of 2023, a number of problems remain. Often Muscovites complain about the "boorish" behavior of car-sharing drivers, careless parking in the second row, in courtyards and intra-quarter driveways with blocking the passage, pedestrian passage, etc. Such drivers should be responsible for the service, Petr Shkumatov believes. The total fleet of car sharing cars in Moscow by the beginning of 2023 totals about 30 thousand cars.^[7]

The average check for a car sharing trip in Russia grew by 28%

The average check for a car sharing trip in Russia in 2022 amounted to 331 rubles, which is 28% more than a year earlier. This is evidenced by the data of the CloudPayments service, released at the end of January 2023.

The turnover of car-sharing companies in 2022 increased by 7%. The researchers noted a 20% decrease in the number of transactions, Kommersant reports. BelkaCar talks about an increase in the average check by about 5% in recent years and associates this with an increase in the length of rent in the service and a change in the structure of the park.

Price growth for car-sharing trips for 2022 amounted to 28%

The increase in the check for car sharing services is associated with an increase in the costs of car sharing operators for servicing car fleets, Tatiana Glazacheva, head of CloudPayments, told the newspaper. For example, spare parts for the year went up by an average of 30%, the National Agency for Industrial Information estimated.

In 2022, there was a shortage of inexpensive cars on the market, so car-sharing services are increasingly choosing in favor of Chinese cars of the SUV segment, said Avtostat expert Sergei Udalov. In this regard, prices for their services could rise due to a change in the category of cars, the specialist confirms the conclusions of BelkaCar. The newspaper cites Rosstat data, according to which new passenger cars soared in price by almost 40% per year.

In 2022, the car sharing market was affected by the departure of large automakers from the country, as well as the complicated logistics of deliveries, BelkaCar says. Due to geopolitical problems, car sharing services have difficulties with purchasing and updating the park, and a significant role in the market was played by the reorientation of services to the Chinese car market, says Truesharing.ru publisher Iouri Nikolaev. Major market players did not give specific figures for the growth of the share of Chinese cars. According to Yuri Nikolaev, today it can reach 20-25% of the total fleet of Russian services.^[8]

Fraudsters in Russia began to create fake car sharing sites to steal data

At the end of 2022, it became known that fraudsters in Russia began to actively create fake sites of car-sharing companies to steal data, as well as to steal cars and remove spare parts from them. Read more here.

Car sharing in Russia has risen in price by 29%

In January-September 2022, the average cost of a car-sharing car in Russia increased by 29% compared to the same period in 2021 and reached 319 rubles. This is evidenced by CloudPayments data, which were released at the end of October 2022.

According to Post Bank, car sharing trips have risen in price by an average of 25% (up to 440 rubles), according to Tinkoff Data - by 17% (up to 493 rubles), Kommersant reports. According to a Post Bank survey, about 70% of respondents most often use car sharing for short trips.

Car sharing prices in the Russian Federation rose by 29%

However, the growing consumer economy remains the restraining factors for the growth of the car rental market, like taxis. According to the newspaper, another factor is the departure of some solvent citizens from the country.

Vladimir Bespalov, an analyst in the technology, media and telecommunications sector, believes that the growth in demand for car sharing services may be due to the fact that owning your car becomes more expensive due to increased repair and maintenance costs. This is confirmed by the statistics of the Association of European Businesses, which calculated that in nine months car sales in Russia fell by almost 60%.

Sharing services began to develop in the country later, so this segment has significant growth potential, "explains Bespalov.

In addition, adds Iouri Nikolaev, publisher of the Trushering portal, car-sharing companies have held back tariff growth for some time to increase the number of users.

BelkaCar The "" reported an To the businessman increase in the average check by 5% per year, explaining this by increasing its fleet with premium cars, an increase in the duration and mileage of trips. In "" Sitidrive they note that in the spring prices for part of the cars increased, and for some - decreased.^[9]

Darknet sells accounts of car-sharing service administrators

The darknet sells accounts of administrators of Russian car-sharing services, with which you can, for example, track the location of cars, open and close them, as well as start and jam the engine. Izvestia wrote about this on September 7, 2022, citing data from Kaspersky Lab.

Sources of the newspaper close to the car-sharing firms claim that remote access to the control panel is impossible. But at the same time, Kaspersky Lab notes that any car sharing has a so-called admin panel - it is used by the service in case of emergency situations. The company's expert claims that technical support can remotely open or close the car, signal, light the headlights, start the car to warm it up, or turn off the engine.

Darknet sells accounts of car-sharing service administrators

Leading information security consultant at R-Vision Evgeny Gryaznov also confirmed the possibility of a safe remote engine lock.

A modern car-sharing car is not just a car, but also a hidden additional on-board computer with many sensors, which constantly transmits information about its condition to the operator company, he said.

If the attacker manages to remotely stop the car, for example, on the Moscow Ring Road and block the doors, the situation will be dangerous, says Autonet Denis Pilipishin, an analyst at the AutoNet working group of the National Technology Initiative. According to him, various sources give different estimates - someone says that the average time to an accident, when another inattentive driver runs into a standing driver, is 15 minutes, someone is only 4.5 minutes. There are risks of a different kind: a fraudster can access personal data from the user's application, find out his name, travel routes, or even credit card information, he said.^[10]

Russian car sharing switched to Chinese cars

In mid-July 2022, it became known about the first purchase of cars by a Chinese manufacturer by the Russian car-sharing service Delimobil. 150 new Chery Tiggo 4 crossovers were purchased, the retail price of which in the Russian Federation starts at 1.7 million rubles. Read more here.

2021

The Russian car sharing market is estimated at $1.5 billion

The volume of the Russian transport sharing market in 2021 reached 68 billion rubles, an increase of 85% compared to 2020. Such data are presented in a study presented by TIAR-Center and the RAEK/Sharing Economy cluster in mid-December 2021.

The report includes key figures for the following services:

• car sharing (short-term car rental);
• sharing of personal mobility equipment (short-term rental of scooters and bicycles);
• carpooling (joint trips in private cars).

The Russian market for short-term rental of cars, bicycles and scooters soared by 85%

The largest industry in the sharing of transport remains car sharing: according to the study, in 2021 the revenue of car sharing operators will reach 41 billion rubles and will exceed the 2020 figure by 82%.

According to BelkaCarCEO Loriana Sardar, the car sharing market will continue to grow at a double-digit annual rate, following developed European markets. The capacity of the capital's car sharing market is about $700 million, the capacity of the entire Russian car sharing market is $1.5 billion. In five years, the volume of this market may grow fourfold, Sardar said in a conversation with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Karpuling is named the second largest segment of the Russian transport sharing market. In 2021, this segment overcame the decline caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and showed an increase of 58%. The volume of transactions in carpooling at the end of the year will amount to about 18 billion rubles, which corresponds to the indicator of 2019.

In the carpooling sector, BlaBlaCar, the leading platform for finding fellow travelers in Russia, gradually introduced the monetization of trips in the form of a service fee from passengers over the course of the year. At the same time, the leading Russian kicksharing services, Urent and Whoosh, demonstrated profitability back in 2019-2020, at the end of 2021 this figure increased.^[11]

Sollers Group and RusHydro have created a company to develop electric sharing

On December 1, 2021, it became known about the creation of the company RusHydroWise"," within the framework of which its founders, represented by LLC Sollers Group"" and PJSC "" RusHydro will be engaged in the joint development of the service car-sharing electric vehicles in. Vladivostok More. here

Car sharing increased revenue and losses in 2020

Large car sharing last year increased both revenue and net loss. The pandemic has led to the departure of small players and a halt^[12] regional expansion, but those who remain are ready to continue spending money to increase^[13] market share^[14]

The revenue of Delimobil (under this brand is provided by Carshering Russia) for 2020 amounted to 5.296 billion rubles, which is 33% more than in 2019, follows from SPARK data.

BelkaCar (Carsharing JSC) earned 1.99 billion rubles, which is 5% more than in the previous year.

The revenue of Citidriva (New Transport Systems, until recently the company operated under the YouDrive brand) increased by 42%, to 1.2 billion rubles.

Of all the listed services, only BelkaCar previously announced revenue data for 2020, and this indicator differed from the one indicated in the reporting. As indicated in the company's message, its revenue amounted to 2.4 billion rubles, which is 7% more compared to 2019. As the representative of BelkaCar explained, they cited an indicator taking into account additional activities, and 1.99 billion rubles. - this is revenue directly from car sharing services.

At the same time, all of the listed companies remained unprofitable:

• Delimobil's net loss grew by 13%, to 2.42 billion rubles;
• at BelkaCar, it increased by 33%, to 1.84 billion rubles;
• at Sitidriv - more than twice, up to 1.35 billion rubles.

The revenue of Yandex.Carshering amounted to 68 million rubles, and the loss - 710.4 million rubles. This company operates under the Yandex.Drive brand, according to information on the service's website. But the legal entity itself was registered only in April 2020. At the same time, in 2019, the revenue of Yandex.Drive LLC, which was previously considered the main legal entity for the service, amounted to 7.4 billion rubles, and the loss was 2.4 billion rubles. (data for 2020 for this company is not given). The representative of Yandex insists that these indicators do not reflect the results of their car sharing. Earlier, the company reported that in 2020 the revenue of this area amounted to 8.5 billion rubles, which is 13% more than in 2019. Yandex did not disclose the size of the loss.

2020

Creation of the "People's Car Sharing" service

On September 18, 2020, it became known about the creation by the Moscow authorities of a service for the delivery of personal cars to car sharing. The project was called "People's Car Sharing." Read more here.

Russia passed the first verdict for the sale of car sharing accounts

At the end of 2020, the first verdict was passed in Russia for the sale of car sharing accounts. The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Russian citizen Roman Amelin 50 thousand rubles.

According to RAPSI with reference to the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg, a 21-year-old young man was accused under Part 2 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal access to computer information committed out of selfish interest).

The court fined 50 thousand rubles for selling car sharing accounts

According to the investigation, Roman Amelin in the period June to October 2019 used the data of his passport and driver's license, as well as photos of users to create accounts in the Delimobil car-sharing service. He sold the confirmed record for 2500 rubles. In total, the man sold at least 10 accounts, thus earning 25 thousand rubles.

Where he took data on passports, rights and photos of drivers, the investigation could not establish. It is assumed that Amelin bought the data of real drivers on the Web, where they got from the databases of microfinance organizations.

Amelin pleaded guilty , repented of his deed and transferred 10 thousand rubles to a charitable foundation. He filed a motion to dismiss the case with a court fine. The participants in the process did not object.

Amelin was detained and sent under house arrest in March 2020. At first, about 30 episodes with fake accounts in various car-sharing services appeared in the case. Then their number was reduced to 10.

The criminal scheme with the sale of car-sharing accounts, kk rule, works as follows. A person contacts an illegal merchant and, having paid a small amount, receives account information in the service: login, virtual number and virtual card. Sellers do not check for rights and age. Sellers' account rates vary. You can purchase access to the car sharing system in St. Petersburg for 1700-3500 rubles, writes the publication "Rosbalt."^[15]

Car sharing support program did not work due to Russian telematics equipment

On August 25, 2020, it became known that the car sharing support program, which was announced back in April at a meeting with President RFVladimir Putin, did not work.

We are talking about operational leasing, under which the state subsidizes an advance payment - 25% of the cost of the car. The discount on a passenger car is up to 350 thousand rubles, light commercial - 500 thousand rubles, the rest of the transport - up to 900 thousand rubles. The budget of the program is 2.5 billion rubles.

Informed sources told Kommersant that the program includes a requirement to install Russian telematics equipment designed to track the location of the vehicle and its technical condition. However, by August 25, no manufacturer had received proof of origin. This may happen in September 2020, according to Sollers.

The car sharing support program launched by the President of the Russian Federation did not work due to Russian telematics equipment

The certification procedure "takes some time," the publication was told in Itelme"" (supplier of telematics equipment). The company has passed the necessary audit of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and expects to receive documents in early September.

According to Dmitry Babansky, a representative of SBS Consulting, the requirement to use domestic telematics contributes to the development of the market, since the installation of such devices allows you to collect many different data: from diagnosing the state of nodes to monitoring traffic rules.

By the end of August 2020, the installation market for such systems is growing at a dynamic pace, while it is quite segmented. The most active participants are insurance companies offering diversified tariffs depending on the results of the analysis of data collected by telematic devices, according to the publication of Kommersant^[16]

Customer data fraud

As of July 2020, car sharing is becoming an excellent assistant for scammers. With the help of selfies of clients with a passport, people take loans from microfinance companies.

Also, car sharing bases are used for calls from a fake bank security service - this is how you can find out the presence of money in your account, bank card data.

Capital car sharing accused Rospotrebnadzor of blocking activities. Operators are in no hurry to explain the new rules

Carsharing cannot resume work on the pre-coronavirus scenario due to the lack of instructions from Rospotrebnadzor. Representatives of the services accused the department of blocking their activities and sent a collective appeal on June 9.

As RBC stated the co-founder of the BelkaCar car-sharing service Ekaterina Makarova, "none of the operators can start working normally, although all other transport infrastructure - public transport, bicycles, scooters, taxis - are already working without restrictions." The reason is that Rospotrebnadzor has not yet issued new instructions. Market players believe that such a delay violates the decree of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on returning to work after the lifting of coronavirus restrictions from June 9.

Putin allocates 2.5 billion rubles for preferential leasing for car sharing

On April 24, 2029, the president Russia Vladimir Putin announced the need to allocate 2.5 billion rubles for the implementation of a preferential leasing program for car-sharing services. states The head made this statement at a meeting on the support of the auto industry in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19

So that such companies can not only go through today's difficult period, but also expand, update their fleet, increase the availability of services for citizens in the regions, I propose to provide preferential leasing mechanisms for them and allocate 2.5 billion rubles for these purposes, - said Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin said that as part of a package to support the production of domestic cars, it is necessary to allocate funds to finance a program of preferential car leasing for small and medium-sized businesses

He also noted that in recent years, car-sharing services have been actively developed.

Earlier, private traders in the transport market, including car-sharing companies, appealed to the Moscow government with a request to provide them with financial support in connection with a decrease in demand for their services in the context of the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19.

The capital's mayor's office and the government of the Moscow region have imposed a ban on car sharing until May 1, 2020 as part of the fight against the spread of a new type of coronavirus.

During a meeting on the development of the automotive industry on April 24, 2020, Putin also announced the need to change the legal framework to ensure the possibility of remote purchase of cars. According to him, the "overdue changes" require amendments to existing legislation.

In addition, the President announced the need to allocate 7 billion rubles to support preferential car loans for Russian citizens in a difficult economic situation due to the spread of the coronavirus. According to Putin, such measures should contribute to an increase in demand for the products of automobile plants in the Russian Federation.

The head of state also stressed the need to "additionally allocate 6 billion rubles" to the development of programs "preferential leasing of automotive equipment, trucks, commercial vehicles, which are in demand in small and medium-sized businesses, in the countryside."^[17]

2019

Liksutov: 70% of car sharing users have personal cars

70% of car-sharing users in Moscow have personal cars. This was announced by the vice-mayor of the capital and the head of the Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov.

According to him, some car sharing users have two cars in stock. He explained the combined personal transport and car-sharing by convenience.

70% of car sharing users own personal vehicles, said the head of the Moscow Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov

It just costs your car upon arrival at work for seven to eight hours, you need to pay for it. For these people, it is more economically profitable to use a short-term rental car, which leads to a decrease in the load on the transport network of Moscow, - said Liksutov.

According to the head of the department, a tendency to reduce the cost of a rental car may make this business more attractive for car-sharing operators.

By the end of November 2019, 12 short-term car rental companies are operating in Moscow. The cost of renting a car depends on the chosen operator, but on average ranges from six to 10 rubles per minute. Users can leave cars in city paid parking lots for free.^[18]

Yandex.Drive became the world's second car sharing in terms of the number of cars

On October 25, 2019, it became known that Yandex.Drive took second place in the world in terms of the size of the car fleet among car-sharing services. Read more here.

How Russia wants to fight bad car sharing users

On October 16, 2019, it became known about plans to use telematic systems, video cameras and breathalysers in car-sharing cars in Russia. With these means, companies want to fight intruders and bad drivers.

Vandalism, like dangerous driving, and neglect of cars are serious problems for operators. Everything goes to the fact that companies will increase the cost of ensuring the safety of their property, "Vyacheslav Mikhailov, head of the VTB Leasing car leasing business development department, told RIA Novosti.

It became known about plans to use telematic systems, video cameras and breathalysers in car-sharing cars in Russia

To combat drunk drivers driving car-sharing cars, operators intend to equip their cars with special alcohol locks. Before starting the engine, the driver will have to take a quick blood alcohol test. To do this, he will have to blow into a special device on the car panel. Only after the test will the system allow the engine to start.

Mikhailov noted that by October 2019, almost all car-sharing operators in Russia show losses, which is associated with the costs of creating infrastructure and increasing the park. It is assumed that most companies engaged in this business will come out "in a plus" only in a few years. However, services have to solve the problems of large expenses, which are partly associated with damage to property.

According to VTB Leasing forecasts, the number of cars in Russian car-sharing services by 2023 will increase by 3-4 times and exceed 100 thousand cars. The company sees in this market one of the drivers for the development of auto leasing in the Russian Federation.

Vyacheslav Mikhailov says that by October 2019, the demand for car sharing in Russia has not yet reached saturation - operators still have opportunities to expand their business not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in other regions.^[19]

Taxi and car sharing in Moscow is more profitable than a personal car

Taxis and car sharing in Moscow are more profitable than a personal car. This is stated in a study conducted by Yandex.Taxi  and Data Insight (Data Insight). The data was released on September 22, 2019.

Experts made a calculation for cars of different price categories - Hyundai Solaris, Volkswagen Tiguan  and Toyota Camry. All base costs for motorists were taken into account, including fuel costs, fines, parking lots, minor repairs and seasonal rubber changes. In addition, depreciation is taken into account, that is, the amount by which the car becomes cheaper during the year.

Using a taxi and car sharing in Moscow turned out to be more profitable than your own car

Analysts took into account mandatory trips to and from work, to shops, to parents and out of town on weekends, while the revealed dependence is confirmed for both new and three-year-old cars, when used in urban mode.

According to the study, the operation of a Hyundai Solaris personal car in Moscow costs the owner 329 thousand rubles a year, if you take 5 thousand km. mileage. It is possible to drive a similar distance by taxi for 142 thousand rubles a year, by car-sharing car - for 102 thousand rubles. The same order of numbers is observed with an annual mileage of about 10 thousand km - 340, 293 and 211 thousand rubles, respectively.

The dependence changes only when the mileage is over 20 thousand km: in this case, a car enthusiast will cost 361 thousand rubles a year, a taxi - 586 thousand rubles, and car sharing - 423 thousand rubles, reports TASS Information Agency of Russia.

Experts note that fuel costs account for a small share of car ownership - for Hyundai Solaris, for example, this is 9-10% of annual spending, and for BMW Group 520i the figure is only 2%. The largest costs for new cars are depreciation, and for used cars - insurance costs.

 On September 19, 2019, VTsIOM published research data according to which high fuel and service prices are increasingly encouraging Russian citizens to refuse to use a personal car.^[20]

Not a single car-sharing company in Russia has reached self-sufficiency

Car sharing in Russia is carried out by 25 companies in 20 cities. At the same time, 25 thousand cars are involved in this area. However, not a single car-sharing company in Russia has reached self-sufficiency. This was announced in August 2019 by the editor-in-chief of the Carsharik.ru portal Anna Smirnova at the VI International Eurasian Taxi Forum.

According to Anna Smirnova, nine out of 24 car-sharing companies in Russia operate in Moscow, eight in St. Petersburg. Of the 25 thousand cars involved in car sharing, 21 thousand are used in Moscow, 3000 - in St. Petersburg.

Anna Smirnova also shared some information about the development of car sharing in Moscow, citing data from Sberbank. So, according to her, in 2017 the car-sharing fleet in Moscow was less than 2000 cars, in 2018 it was 4.5 thousand, in 2019 - 16.5 thousand.

The number of users of car-sharing cars throughout the country, according to Anna Smirnova, in 2017 amounted to less than 10 thousand, in 2018 - 51.6 thousand, in 2019 - 228.8 thousand. The volume of user expenses for car sharing in 2017 amounted to less than 50 million rubles. per month, in 2019 - 295.3 million rubles. per month, in 2019 - 951.6 million rubles per month.

According to Anna Smirnova, the problems of the car sharing market in Russia are overestimated prices of market players, the difficulties of companies with insurance of their services, the leakage of personal data of users and the creation of fake accounts on their basis, the lack of responsibility of companies and their drivers due to the lack of appropriate regulatory regulation, as well as rude attitude on the part of users towards cars of car sharing companies.

As for the prospects for the car-sharing market in Russia in 2019-2021, according to Anna Smirnova, by 2020 the size of the car-sharing company fleet will increase to 30 thousand. Private individuals will appear in partner pools. In addition, in 2019-2020. there will be a promotion of car sharing areas in the Moscow region. This service will appear in at least 20 new cities. In addition, in 2019-2021. there will be the spread of car sharing technologies at the box office and the convergence of taxi and car sharing markets.

In Moscow, seven people drive one car-sharing car per day

In January-June 2019, residents of the capital made 24 million trips on cars rented through applications. This is already one million more than in the entire last year.

The car sharing fleet in the capital has also grown significantly - since July 2018, the number of cars has doubled, now there are 21 thousand car sharing cars in the capital. By the beginning of 2020, the number of cars will completely grow to 30 thousand.

On average, seven people drive one car-sharing car per day. According to Moscow officials, one car-sharing machine can replace seven personal ones.

Moscow Deputy Mayor Maxim Liksutov said that usually motorists drive cars only in 7% of cases, the rest of the time the car is simply standing. That is why people began to change from personal cars to car-sharing cars today. This allows them to save on the repair of the car, as well as on its maintenance, Interfax reports.

Renting a car-sharing car in the capital costs an average of 6 to 10 rubles per minute. In 2019, in Russia, monthly car sharing costs for Russians increased by 10%.

2018

Car sharing in Russia works with big losses

In 2018, Yandex.Drive's revenue amounted to 1.13 billion rubles, and a net loss of 550.6 million rubles, according to data from the SPARK-Interfax database.

According to RBC, this is the first RAS reporting by which you can judge the performance of the car-sharing service, launched at the end of February 2018. Separately, Yandex does not highlight the financial indicators of this direction.

Car sharing in Russia works with big losses

By the beginning of August 2019, Yandex.Drive offers customers a lease of 11.5 thousand cars against 4.3 thousand in September 2018.

The first place in terms of revenue is occupied by Carshering Russia (brand) "Delimobil" with revenue of 1.55 billion rubles and a loss of 258.7 million rubles at the end of 2018. The second position is occupied by the company "Carsharing" () BelkaCar with revenue in the amount of 1.37 billion rubles and a loss of 386 million rubles.

In June 2019, one of the first Moscow car sharing - Anytime - announced the termination of work  in Russia. The company will continue to work in the Czech Republic, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In Russia, the Anytime Prime long-term rental service will continue to operate, which allows you to rent a car for a period of day or more. Car sharing Anytime is owned by Micro Capital Russia, which also owns Delimobil.

In 2018, Anytime's revenue in Russia amounted to 458.8 million rubles, and net loss - 294 million rubles. The revenue of New Transport Systems (YouDrive) in 2018 amounted to 787.4 million rubles, and a net loss of 82.2 million rubles, according to the SPARK-Interfax database.

At the end of 2018, Moscow ranked second in the world in terms of the number of registered short-term rental cars (car sharing). In 2018, 23 million trips were made through such services in the city, which is 3.5 times more than a year earlier.^[21]

Sberbank: Russian car sharing market earned 7 billion rubles

Sberbank PJSC analyzed the Russian car sharing market. At the end of 2018, its key indicators, namely the number of users, revenue, fleet of cars, increased more than five times. According to Sberbank estimates, according to the results of 2018, the revenue of the sector companies amounted to 7 billion rubles.

According to Sberbank, the volume of car sharing costs in Russia at the beginning of 2019 exceeded 1 billion rubles. per month. In Moscow, car sharing users made an average of 33 trips a year, in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region - 21 trips. As a rule, in other regions where there is car sharing, Russians make 18 trips a year. Representatives of 83 regions of Russia used the services of this service at least once. The average check is from 183 rubles. in Ufa and almost 300 rubles. - in St. Petersburg.

According to Sberbank, a typical user spends 3469 rubles. per month, the average price of his trip is 260 rubles. The authors of the study believe that fierce competition in the sector is unlikely to significantly raise tariffs. And to increase profits, companies resort to non-standard solutions - for example, premium cars appear in their fleet.

According to Sberbank, if in December 2017 51.6 thousand Russians spent 295.3 million rubles on short-term car rentals per month. per month, then in December 2018 the number increased to 228.8 thousand people. And their total spending on car sharing amounted to 951.5 million rubles. In January 2019, this figure exceeded 1 billion rubles.

If in mid-2017 five companies actively worked on the market, then at the beginning of last year - already 13. The market leader is Moscow (85%). By the end of 2018, the fleet of car-sharing cars here amounted to 16 thousand, and in all other regions - a total of about 3.8 thousand. In the first months of 2019, the capital's fleet increased to 18 thousand cars.

Sberbank divided car sharing users into beginners and active ones - making trips for more than four months. A typical active user is a Muscovite 21-35 years old, every month he makes 7-19 trips cars to two or five companies and spends 1942-4617 rubles on this. New users, usually young people 18-20 years old or people over 41 years old, make four to six trips in cars of one or two companies and spend up to 1660 rubles. per month. This category includes mainly clients from St. Petersburg, Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk, Samara, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod regions and Krasnodar Territory.

The peak of using car sharing falls on the afternoon. Drivers over 66 most often take such cars around 5 p.m., and younger ones after 8 p.m. If a person rarely resorts to car sharing services, he, as a rule, does it on weekends, according to Sberbank.

Moscow is the leader in Europe in the number of car sharing machines

The fact that the capital's fleet for short-term rental is the largest in Europe, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on his Twitter page.

As the Moscow mayor recalled, car sharing in the capital was launched in the fall of 2015. Since then, the development of this service has led to the fact that about 25,000 short-term car rentals in Moscow are used every day. By the end of the year, it is planned to increase the fleet for short-term rentals to 10-15 thousand vehicles.

"According to this indicator, we have already bypassed all European cities," Sergei Sobyanin writes on Twitter on this occasion.

Today, car sharing in the capital is provided by a number of companies, including Delimobil, Anytime, YouDrive, EasyRide, Car5, BelkaCar, etc.

2017

According to the Truesharing.ru resource, at the beginning of 2018, there are 26 car-sharing services in Russia, four more are preparing to launch. The first service of this kind in the country was opened by the Moscow company Anytime, also known as Sitikar LLC, in April 2013.

In Moscow, there are 7 car-sharing services, the total fleet of which exceeds 2.7 thousand cars. According to the growth dynamics of the fleet, Moscow is the leader among the cities of the world. Despite this, the number of car-sharing cars in the city is only 0.2 per thousand inhabitants. For Berlin, for example, this figure is 0.66, for Milan - 1.16.

The RIA Novosti news agency reports with reference to Tatyana Ledovskaya, head of research projects at the Autonet national technology initiative (National Technology Initiative (NTI)), that the total investment in car sharing in Moscow is currently 1.7 billion rubles. In August 2017, the city authorities ordered to allocate funds to subsidize car-sharing operators^[22]

The number of registered users of Moscow car sharing exceeded 500 thousand people, according to the press service of the mayor of the capital in June 2017. According to the press service, 60% of them are Muscovites with a personal car. On average, one car from the capital's car-sharing park is used seven to eight times a day per day, and the average travel time is at least an hour. The car-sharing fleet in Moscow is more than 2.3 thousand cars, which is 600 more than at the beginning of 2017, but the service requires about 10 thousand vehicles to operate as efficiently as possible.

In early January 2017, the Moscow Department of Transport published statistics according to which the fleet of car-sharing service providers (Delimobil, Car5, YouDrive, AnyTime, BelkaCar) is a total of 1.5 thousand units. The area of ​ ​ operation of the car sharing system covers the territory inside the Moscow Ring Road and 10 kilometers behind^[23] highway^[24]

More than 280 thousand subscribers have already registered in the capital's car sharing system. The number of trips since September 2015 has exceeded 1.3 million. On average, eight people use each rental car per day. According to Delimobil, the average journey length is 37 minutes.

In 2017, car sharing will be mastered by million-plus cities and resort areas of the Black Sea coast

In the coming years, the carsharing system will develop in 15 million-plus cities of Russia and in the resort areas of the Black Sea coast.

"In 2015-2016, we observed the rapid development of the per-minute car rental system in Moscow and the near Moscow region. The coming 2017 will be the beginning of the all-Russian boom in the car sharing system "- one of the creators of the navigation and telematics platform CARiOTMikhail Sedykh is sure.

Almost all operator companies are making plans for expansion into the regions today. Someone started working in St. Petersburg in 2016, other operators report the start of the project in the northern capital in the first half of 2017. In the regions, meanwhile, interest in the car sharing system from companies that lease a car for long-term lease is increasing.

The main issue on the agenda remains the issue of supporting this type of entrepreneurship by state power at the regional and federal levels. "Most likely, such support will be provided to operators under certain guarantees and conditions - the expert continues - but this will happen no earlier than 2018, when the authorities will be able to assess and analyze the positive impact of car sharing on the road and environmental situation in cities."

2016

In the first half of 2016, the number of car-sharing service operators for the population increased 4 times.

The average number of cars in the operator's fleet is comparable to the population density in a particular region and varies from 30 to 200. The exception is operator Delimobil (works in Moscow and the Moscow region) - there are more than 700 cars in its fleet.

Experts of the vendor company CARiOT (equipment and interface for car sharing) predict an 8x increase in the fleet for per-minute rentals in Moscow for 5 years and a significant expansion of the geography of the service in cities with a population of more than 1 million people.

City and federal authorities support the development of short-term car rental services. According to the head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of the city, Maxim Liskutov, who is responsible for the capital's transport, the Moscow mayor's office is pleased with the increase in the number of car-sharing companies. The official stressed that the car sharing market is becoming attractive for third-party investments.

See also

• Car sharing market of Russia
• Yandex.Drive and Yandex.Carsharing
• Delimobil
• CARiOT (Cariot)
• BelkaCar (Carsharing)
• Volvo Car Sharing (Sunfleet)
• YouDrive (Carsharing)
• Urban car sharing (Flekskar)
• CarTrek
• Special Schering

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