The car-share service, which operates in Vancouver and Montreal, will cease operations on Feb. 29, 2020
CBC News · Posted: Dec 18, 2019 11:14 AM PT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago
Car2Go currently operates in several North American cities, including Vancouver and Montreal. (Maggie MacPherson/CBC)
The car-share service Car2Go will shut down operations in North America early next year, including in Vancouver and Montreal.
The German company, which recently merged with the car-share service DriveNow under the name Share Now, announced Wednesday that its last day of service will be Feb. 29, 2020.
As well as members in Vancouver and Montreal, the closure will affect riders in Chicago, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
"The decision to close North America was made based on two extremely complicated realities," the company said in a statement.
"The first being the volatile state of the global mobility landscape, and the second being the rising infrastructure complexities facing North American transportation today, such as a rapidly evolving competitive mobility landscape, the lack of necessary infrastructure to support new technology (including electric vehicle car share) and rising operating costs."
The company says it will also stop operating in London, Brussels and Florence due to low usage in those cities. The company will continue to operate in 18 cities in Europe.
Car2Go shut down in Toronto in May 2018, blaming new city rules that rendered its service "inoperable."