Munich, 3 September 2019: The Department of Health
and Environment of the City of Munich (LHM), the BMW Group and
carsharing provider SHARE NOW are joining forces to promote innovative
mobility in the state capital. Through a Memorandum of Understanding
issued on 3 September in Munich, LHM and the BMW Group are set to
expand their cooperation. Carsharing provider SHARE NOW, which was
formed in early 2019 as part of the joint venture between the BMW
Group and Daimler AG, will expand its electric fleet significantly
under the agreement: As a result, a total of 200 BMW i3s will be
available to SHARE NOW customers on Munich roads by the end of the year.
These measures are designed to speed up the transition to sustainable
mobility already underway in an effort to improve the air situation in
Munich. On behalf of the City, the public works department, Stadtwerke
München, will install a total of 550 charging posts, with 1,100
charging points, on public land by 2020. There are currently 460
charging posts with 920 charging points across the city. Up to 1,655
more charging points will be set up in residential buildings, on
commercial land and in public car parks by the end of 2020. Up to 400
additional charging points will be installed on public land by private providers.
City of Munich and BMW Group set course for the mobility of
the future
According to the Environmental Officer for the City of Munich,
Stephanie Jacobs:
“Electromobility is key to the transition to sustainable
mobility in our city. For air pollution control, health and climate
protection, vehicles in our city must be emission-free wherever
possible. This is the only way we can meet the objectives of air
pollution control and climate neutrality. In parallel, the transition
to sustainable mobility must also include attractive sharing options
for electric vehicles, as well as massive expansion of public
transport. This is the only way we can reduce the need to own a
vehicle with potentially high emissions and still preserve individual
mobility. My motto has always been not to operate with bans and
prohibitions, but to create attractive incentives for people to change
their behaviour. That is why we as the state capital are deliberately
seeking to promote locally emission-free electromobility.”
Peter Schwarzenbauer, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG,
Transformation, Electromobility: “Electrification of vehicles is
an important strategic objective for the BMW Group. For this reason,
the BMW Group will bring a total of 25 electrified models onto the
market by 2023 – two years earlier than originally planned. We see
ourselves as part of the solution to the challenges facing cities.
Collaborations such as this with the Department of Health and
Environment of the City of Munich are therefore of strategic
importance to us. Doubling the size of the electric SHARE NOW fleet by
the end of the year is only the first step. We are ready to take
further steps with LHM.”
SHARE NOW electric fleet to more than double
On the basis of this partnership, carsharing provider SHARE NOW will
increase its current electric fleet of 85 BMW i3s in Munich to 200 by
the end of the year – more than doubling the size of the company’s
electric fleet in the Bavarian capital. The new vehicles will be
gradually introduced to the Munich fleet. At the same time, the 85 BMW
i3s used to date will also be replaced by vehicles of the latest
generation, with a range of up to 260 kilometres.
“SHARE NOW sees itself as a pioneer of electromobility. Our goal
is for a quarter of our carsharing fleet in Europe to be electric by
the end of the year – we are already at 20 percent. Our collaboration
with the City of Munich is a positive example of what is possible when
businesses and municipalities pull together and formulate ambitious
goals,” says SHARE NOW CEO Olivier Reppert.
Munich users won over by electromobility
More than 100,000 customers in the Bavarian capital have already
experienced an electric car. A customer survey carried out by the
company in 2018 spotlighted the Munich population’s interest in
electromobility: It found that 79 percent of all users surveyed would
choose an electric car over a vehicle with a combustion engine if they
were the same distance away. The strong demand for electric car
sharing is also reflected in the 1.5 million kilometres driven by
SHARE NOW electric cars in Munich last year alone.
In case of queries, please contact:
Milena Pighi, Spokesperson BMW Group Sustainability Communications,
Milena.PA.Pighi@bmw.de
Telefon: +49 (0)89 382 66563
Edith Petry, City of Munich, Spokesperson Department of Health and Environment
presse.rgu@muenchen.de
Telefon:
+49 (0)89 233 47509
Annika Schaich, Spokesperson SHARE NOW,
annika.schaich@share-now.com,
Mobile: +49 173 23 45 997