Sollers Group and Rus Hydro will launch electric car sharing in Vladivostok

On October 13th, Sollers Group and Rus Hydro signed an agreement on joint implementation of an electric car sharing project in Vladivostok. The electric car rental service was launched in the capital of Primorye in the second quarter of 2022, according to the press service of Sollers Group.

At the first stage of the project, 140 shared electric vehicles will appear on the streets of Vladivostok, and users will be offered per-minute rental of electric vehicles with flexible rates and use car rental for the weekend. Sollers Group, within the framework of the partnership system, will focus on fleet management through its own digital subscription platform Wize. Rus Hydro Company, which operates the largest network of charging stations in the Far East, will act as a service provider for charging cars.

“The launch of our car-sharing project with Rus Hydro in Vladivostok will allow us to test a promising model of the transition to electric mobility in the most developed in terms of the needs of electric transport, Primorye market, and start receiving data for the further development of products and services in the field of electric transport,” - "Vadim Shvetsov. According to him, based on the experience of the new project in Vladivostok, decisions will be made on models for scaling electric vehicle services to other regions of Russia.