Car sharing in Moscow

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• Transport in Moscow
• Car sharing
• Car sharing market of Russia

2025

Growth in the number of users of car-sharing services in Moscow by 57 times to 1.7 million people

In 2025, the car sharing service in Moscow turned 10 years old. During the specified period, the total number of trips made by users in the capital exceeded 380 million. The number of active users of the service increased 57 times, from 30 thousand to 1.7 million people. This was announced by the deputy mayor of Moscow in the government of Moscow, the head of the capital's Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov on January 10, 2026.

The fleets of four operators were provided during the year for daily rental of up to 40 thousand cars. The average daily number of trips reached 148 thousand. According to the press service of the Moscow Department of Transport, this contributed to reducing the load on the road infrastructure and reducing the negative environmental impact.

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Each car made an average of 5-6 trips a day. The total number of trips for the year increased by 4%, amounting to 55 million against 53 million during the previous season of 2024.

To improve the security and relevance of data, from September 1, 2025, a mandatory verification procedure was introduced through the Mos ID system when accessing the lease. This measure contributes to increasing the responsibility of drivers.

Over three years, the number of road accidents involving car sharing has decreased by 21%. The number of injured in such accidents decreased by 20%, and the number of dead - by 33%.

The trend of the year was longer trips, including outside the city. According to the press service of the capital's Department of Transport, the average rental length of one car was 87 minutes, and the trip length was 26 km.

Every year the capital's car sharing is gaining more and more popularity among Muscovites... In 2026, we will continue to improve the quality and safety of the service, as instructed by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, he said.[1]

Car sharing services in Moscow received subsidies from the government totaling 1.4 billion rubles

Since 2018, car sharing services in Moscow have received subsidies from the Moscow government totaling 1.4 billion rubles. These funds went to the purchase of cars, according to the Moscow Department of Transport at the end of August 2025.

Since 2018, on behalf of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, we have been providing subsidies to car sharing operators to partially compensate for car purchase costs, "says Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government for Transport and Industry. - This has reduced the load on the roads: thanks to car sharing, more than 100 thousand personal cars do not go to the streets of Moscow every day. We will continue to support operators so that the service remains accessible and user-friendly.

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According to Liksutov, since 2018, car-sharing companies in Moscow, using city subsidies, have purchased a total of 65 thousand new cars. In addition, the Moscow Government has expanded support for services:

• services received subsidies for the repayment of payments under lease and loan agreements in double amount - 450 million rubles. With this money, companies updated 15 thousand cars
• allowed validity of preferential parking permits increased from 3 to 4 years
• operators received discounts on parking permits. And the age of the car for which you can issue a parking permit will increase from 1 year to 2 years.

In August 2025, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the Russian capital ranks first in the world in terms of the number of car sharing cars - there are over 40 thousand cars in the park, the average age of which is one and a half years. More than 150 thousand trips are made daily using the service: on average, five to six trips a day are made per car. As a result, more than 100 thousand personal cars do not go on the roads of Moscow every day, the mayor said.^[2]

2024: Growth of the car sharing fleet in Moscow 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.^[3]

2022

The volume of the car sharing market in Moscow and the Moscow region over the year increased by 30.9% to ₽40,5 billion

At the end of 2022, the volume of the car sharing market in Moscow and the Moscow region increased by 30.9% compared to 2021, reaching ₽40,5 billion. 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

2020: 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, 2020.

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.

2019

The head of the Moscow Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov: 70% of car sharing users in the capital have personal cars

70% of car-sharing users in Moscow have personal cars. This was announced at the end of November 2019 by the vice-mayor of the capital and the head of the Transport Department 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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: 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.

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