car2go adding four-door vehicles to its fleet

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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Rapid expansion of car-sharing services continues as its largest player tries something new. car2go has added four-door vehicles to its lineup of tiny Smart cars in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

Each city now has 25 Mercedes-Benz B-Class four-door hatchbacks.

That’s the same type of vehicle offered locally by the BCAA’s Evo service, which uses four-door Toyota Prius C.

car2go’s Justin MacDonald says it’s not a response to Evo but rather its members’ requests.

“Since you know we launched here five years ago, [we asked] what kind of improvements do you want? What do you need? And they consistently said they wanted a roomier car so this is why we’ve launched the pilot in Canada.”

He says car2go recently doubled its local fleet of smart cars to 1,250.

Modo, the car-sharing co-op in Vancouver, offers a variety of vehicles from subcompacts to trucks.

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