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Life after Autolib: car-sharing continues in Paris

Autolib is dead, but without it, the electrified car-sharing schemes now active in Paris would not stand a chance. By Xavier Boucherat

In some respect, Autolib was a service quite literally ahead of its time: regular users of car-sharing services today may be unable to conceive how such options were available and could even work at a time that pre-dated the widespread use of smartphones and reliable data networks. And yet work they did, with a fleet of 4,000 vehicles available to 110,000 subscribers at its height. It is hard to ignore the influence and inspiration which the Bolloré group’s experiment have had on subsequent service offerings.

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