car2go goes USA

Initial pilot testing of the car2go concept begins in the US in close cooperation with the city of Austin, Texas, in what is also the first appearance of the innovative mobility concept outside Europe. At the same time, Austin becomes the official location for the Daimler subsidiary car2go North America LLC. The pilot project begins with 200 smart fortwo – initially for a defined user group made up of 13,000 city authority employees.