Zoomcar, self-drive car rental company has launched Hop, a one-way intercity self-drive service. Zoomcar’s new one-way intercity self-service allows a customer to travel from point A to point B which will enable customers to pick up a car from Zoomcar location from one city and drop it off to another city at a company’s location. For your information, Zoomcar is India’s first 100 percent self-drive car rental company and with the launch of one-way intercity adds flexibility & options to people’s travel plans.
The Zoomcar Hop will be available across 24 cities including intra-state and interstate route. The 24 city routes are Bangalore – Mysore, Bangalore – Mangalore, Mangalore – Mysore, Bombay – Pune, Ahmedabad – Surat, Kolkata – Siliguri, Chennai – Coimbatore, Vijayawada – Vizag.
The procedure for booking a car will be done through the app or website. The user will be asked about their drop off city and location. Based on the provided pickup and drop off, the minimum duration is computed to cover the distance. The price of the fuel is included. The price of the trip will be decided by the hours required to cover the distance between starting point to a destination with 20km/hr.
The company caters to an audience where travelers are looking for a self-driving purpose for both business and leisure purpose. The company has expanded from seven cities in 2016 to 24 cities in 2017 and looking forward to expanding to more than 30 cities later this quarter.
Press Release Quote:
Commenting on the announcement, Greg Moran, CEO & Co-founder, Zoomcar said:
“With the launch of our path-breaking one way, inter-city self-drive rental product, Hop, we’re offering a whole new level of convenience for our 20 lakh plus Zoomcar customer base. After careful study and countless deliberations with customers, we have designed a product offering that caters to a wide range of point to point, inter-city self-drive use cases. We anticipate strong demand for Hop from both business and leisure travellers. We look forward to pushing out to more than 30 routes later this quarter.”
Adding further,
“With increasing cities and cars, there is a need to augment the demand and traffic to match the increase in supply. With the Hop launch, our primary focus is to target those travelers who are specifically seeking to travel on a daily or weekly basis. With our dramatic city expansion, it has given us an opportunity to start one-way inter-city travel option which is one of the ways we can manage our weekday demand for usage of cars.”
