Voler has announced the launch of a self-drive car rental service in Delhi.

At present, Voler's fleet consists of cars ranging from the Maruti Swift and Honda Amaze to Mercedes GLA and Toyota Fortuner. The company offers doorstep service in addition to more than 100 pick-up locations.

Voler cars can be rented on hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis. They come with insurance and nationwide access.

How it works:

A customer has to register on the Voler website and enter his location, schedule and delivery option. He can select the car he wishes to rent, pay a security deposit and upload a copy of his driving licence. He will then get the car with a full tank of fuel and a checklist that he needs to fill. After the drive, he has to return the car with a full tank of fuel and with a filled checklist. Voler will refund his security deposit.

Voler has set conditions for customers. Users must be over 18 years of age and must possess a driving licence for a light motor vehicle. Users should not have been booked for traffic violations. Payments are accepted through debit or credit cards or Voler wallet.

Delivery and pick-up of cars is chargeable if the booking is for less than a week. Cancellation, rescheduling, change of pick-up / drop-off location, upgrade of car model with less than 24 hour to go for the scheduled ride, will attract additional charges. Late return is also chargeable and downgrade of car model is not allowed.

Like other self-drive rental cars, Voler cars attract taxes when entering different states or cities. The user will have to bear this expense. Toll charges, fines for traffic violations and charges for cleaning the car in case it is extremely dirty will also have to be borne by the customer.

Voler plans to expand its service to major cities in India over the next six months. The company also plans to expand its fleet to 1,000 cars.

Web-based cab aggregator Uber, has started accepting cash payments in three more cities - Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Kolkata.

With the addition of these three cities, Uber's cash payment model is now available in 21 cities including Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Mysore, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam.

According to the company, while booking a cab, users have to select the cash payment option. After the ride, they have to pay the driver in cash.

Uber is trying to compete with its main rivals - Ola Cabs, which accept cash payments and controls a much larger share of the market.

In most cities Uber has been accepting payments through credit cards and other electronic payment methods. With the move to accept cash payments, the company will try to attract more customers and expand its business.

Uber has plans to roll out the cash payment model in Mumbai as well.

Source: ET Auto

Just a couple of days ago we had reported that a new, Delhi-based self-drive car rental service, Revv, had begun offering doorstep delivery and pickup to its user. Now, Myles, a self-drive service (by Carzonrent), announces this facility of home delivery & pickup for its Gurgaon customers.

At a fee of Rs. 500, Customer will be able to opt for this facility while booking a Myles car. Presently, there are nearly 25 pickup locations across the city of Gurgaon. This delivery and pickup service, will eliminate the need of customers to travel to these pickup locations altogether.

In the coming months, Myles plans to integrate this facility across 21 cities. The company will add 5,000 cars & 1,000 pickup locations to its fleet in the next 12 months.

Customers can book for Myles cars through the mobile app or by simply calling 08882222222 for hourly, daily, weekly or monthly need of cars.

Now here's a self-drive car rental service that offers some added convenience. Delhi-based Revv offers its customers a one-of-a-kind doorstep delivery and pick-up of their self-drive car fleet.

Each time you book their car, Revv offers you the convenience of doorstep delivery of the vehicle. At the moment, the delivery and pick-up location have to be the same. One-way bookings aren't available yet. Their executives will use foldable electric scooters (which fit in the boot of the cars), to travel back to the car parking lots after a successful delivery. Customers have a further advantage of clocking unlimited kilometres per hour in these rental vehicles.

Revv is the brainchild of Anupam Agarwal and Karan Jain, both were Associate Partners of McKinsey with over a decade long experience on their profile. The company was launched on July 27, 2015 and has already experienced a 45-50% utilization in its first 3 weeks.

All cars will be provided with a full tank of fuel and customers are expected to return it the same way.

Hourly rentals are as follows:

• Hyundai Grand i10 - Rs.59
• Honda City - Rs. 89
• Mahindra Scorpio - Rs. 89
• Ford EcoSport - Rs. 89
• Renault Duster - Rs. 95
• Toyota Innova - Rs. 129
• Audi Q3 - Rs. 229

(These are indicative rates which may vary on weekdays, weekends, peak season, festivals etc.)

For more details, visit their FAQ section.

Recently, online taxi aggregator Ola, went the app only way. Now the company claims to have a market-share 80% of the online space by the number of registered vehicles (including autorickshaws). In November 2014, Ola commanded about 60% market-share.This figure includes the share of TaxiForSure as well. Ola acquired TaxiForSure earlier this year.

There is no breakdown of the Ola-TaxiForSure share provided by Ola. The market share data was based on “available or estimated data of registered vehicles on respective platforms”. Meru claims that it had 20,000 registered vehicles across 7 cities. Uber did not to disclose its numbers.

Ola also claims that it does 7,50,000 rides every day and has over 250,000 vehicles. It is adding 1,500 vehicles daily.

Earlier this year, Ola mentioned that TaxiForSure had 24,000 cars on its platform and the total number of vehicles was about 1,50,000. Ola claimed to be doing around 2,00,000 rides every day in January 2015 with a month on month growth rate of 35%. Calculations show that the resulting number for July 2015 would be 15,13,358 - approximately twice as much as Ola is claiming at the moment.

Other calculations reveals that if 2,00,000 cars make up 80%, Meru, which has a 12% market-share, has 30,000 vehicles in the 7 cities that it operates in. Uber, which has a 4% market-share and operates in 18 cities, has 10,000 vehicles.

Source: Medianama

Myles, the self- drive service by Carzonrent, has announced that it is expanding the number of  pickup and drop locations in Mumbai. Twenty new locations have been added in the city with the aim of reducing the last mile connectivity and reducing car pick up time.

Customers will now be able to rent a car of their choice by picking it up from locations such as Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Juhu, Vashi, Churchgate Station, BKC, and more. The new locations will take the total count of pickup and drop locations in Mumbai to more than 30.

MYLES self-drive rental cars are available on hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis as per the customer’s requirements. Customers can choose from a range of cars including electric vehicles, cars with automatic transmissions, SUVs and luxury cars.

Before the addition of the new locations, the service was present at landmarks in Mumbai such as Mahesh Lunch Home (Juhu), Juhu Beach near Ramada Plaza Palm Grove, Hotel Sear Princess, Hotel Novotel, Powai Plaza, Hiranandani Hospital, IIT Main Gate and Marol Naka McDonald's.

All MYLES cars are centrally tracked through GPS technologies and enable the consumers to find a car through a simple mobile application or the internet or by calling 08882222222. The service has more than 1000 cars and 34 car models in India.

Self-drive rental car company ZoomCar, has announced that it will launch a doorstep pickup and drop service in select cities. This service will be started by the end of the year.

At present, ZoomCar users have to pick up cars by themselves from select locations. With the new service, the company will aim to make the service more convenient by having cars dropped off at locations chosen by the users by executives. The cars will be picked up by executives after the users have finished using them.

At present, ZoomCar services are available in Bangalore, Pune, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. The company recently made an announcement that it had raised $11mn from Sequoia, Empire Angels and NGP for the improvement of customer convenience and expansion of locations across India.

Additionally, ZoomCar is looking to expand its fleet of cars to over 1,000 across 250 locations in Mumbai. The company is also planning to introduce Zoom Commute, a service for office-goers. Under this service, users will be able to get a car from Sunday 8 pm to Friday 8 pm for a sum of Rs. 2,500, which include fuel, taxes and insurance.

Source: Next Big What

Taxi aggregator Uber, is set to invest a sum of $50 million (Rs. 317 crore approximately) over the next five years in India. This is a part of the $1 billion investment that the company was planning for India and China.

The San Francisco-based company is planning to set up a new facility in Hyderabad. The new facility is expected to be its largest outside the US and will house around 500 employees.

The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Telangana to create jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities. It is collaborating with Telangana Academy for Skills and Knowledge to train 2,000 candidates by the end of 2016. These candidates will then become Uber cab drivers.

Uber claims that its vehicle finance programme and technology platform will help first-time vehicle ownership and provide economic opportunities for its trained candidates. The company also plans to work with the government to develop a new regulatory framework for on-demand transportation technology aggregator services.

Uber's services are available in 18 cities in India.

Myles, the self-drive service offered by Carzonrent, has added a new range of automatic cars to its fleet. The new range includes cars like the Honda City, the Hyundai Grand i10 and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and C-Class among others. These cars can be booked on hourly, daily and weekly basis depending upon the need of the customers.

According to the company, automatic cars are likely to benefit customers who drive every day for long hours. These cars can prove to be less stressful to drive in bumper-to-bumper traffic as they do not require the driver to operate a clutch or shift a gear lever constantly.

Zoomcar, already offers the Ciaz AT in some cities.

All Myles cars are centrally tracked through GPS technologies and can be booked through the Mobile, web or calling 08882222222.

EasyCabs, the radio taxi service by Carzonrent, has tied up with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The step enables customers to book EasyCabs on the IRCTC website at the time of train reservation. Currently the service is available for Delhi and NCR. In the coming few months the service is expected to be extended to other cities.

EasyCabs claims that the association with IRCTC will make travelling convenient, hassle-free and safe for customers. It will mean that customers will not have wait in long queues to get a cab after a long train journey.

All the EasyCabs are centrally tracked through GPS.

Click here to book EasyCabs through the IRCTC website