Open for business: The rise of car-sharing in China

Car-sharing in China is growing rapidly, driven by a number of factors unique to the Chinese market. When CCCLub started the first Chinese car-sharing business in 2010, it had a small fleet of vehicles to provide mobility services for the Alibaba business campus. Today, car-sharing fleets consist of more than 26,000 shared vehicles, especially in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities (e.g. Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Changsha, Wuhan etc.). These are run by dozens of car-sharing operators. Based on Roland Berger assumptions, car-sharing fleets in China can be expected to continue to grow at around