Carpooling for traditional taxis launches in NYC 🚖
UBER-style carpooling is set to launch in traditional yellow New York City cabs, seeing traditional taxis take on on-demand firms for the first time.
Tech transit companies Curb and Via have joint forces in the US to roll out carpooling for cabs – the first time such technology has been explored and the infrastructure built for traditional taxi firms. It’s…
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Zenith, the UK’s leading independent leasing, vehicle outsourcing and fleet management provider, has hopped on board with Liftshare to promote sustainable travel amongst their employees – with 68% of the workforce signing up!
Launching their scheme, Driven Together, in April at their Leeds site, the Liftshare team visited their offices to deliver presentations on the benefits of shared travel. 150…
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If you too are looking to become ISO accredited in any area of environmental management or sustainability, contact our Business Team today to discuss how we can help.
The International Organisation for Standardisation has launched a new sustainability standard this week – ISO 20400 for Sustainable Procurement.
Replacing the BS 8903:2010 Principles and Framework for Procuring Sustainably, the new ISO…
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Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop’ transport system has been raced in a prototype competition in the US this week.
A competition was held for student groups to design prototype pods for the system, which is a futuristic transportation network that has carbon-fibre pods travelling through tubes to set destinations. It uses magnetic levitation technology to power pods through a vacuum.
Thirty teams of…
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Car sharing has gone mainstream, with videos springing up online of celebrity matches and friendly singalongs. There’s been loads of great driving duos on this blog through the years, but who’s our favourite? Read on the for our top 10, ranked.
Think you can beat this list with you sharing story? Email Liftshare Marketing Manager Lex at lex@liftshare.com now!
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Westminster City Council will become the first in the UK to impose a surcharge for diesel cars parking in the area.
The so-called “D-charge” will be an extra £2.45 an hour for a maximum of 4 hours, so the levy could be up to £9.80. This is on top of the usual £4.90 an hour to park in a pay-to-park…
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Insurer Direct Line has launched a new app named Shotgun – to reward drivers aged 17-25 for safe driving.
The app, to be downloaded to a smart phone, uses GPS technology to track routes and monitor speed and braking. Elements of the user’s driving will be rated and users can earn points to trade with brands such as Pizza Express,…
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Sending your car for its annual MOT can be daunting, as it’s often an occasion for you to discover repair work required that you weren’t expecting… and therefore also an occasion for you to part with some cold, hard cash that you hadn’t intended to.
It can be difficult to judge what to do when facing a big bill, particularly…
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New Year, New Me or New Year, Same Old Me? Either way, the first few months of a new year can be tight; and driving around to get errands done can add to the bill. We’ve compiled 7 tips for you to try to help slash your motoring bill for the year ahead.
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Well, we couldn’t not mention it, could…
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Following our blog on surging car insurance premiums being blamed on a whiplash ‘claims culture‘, new plans have been suggested to cap or cut whiplash insurance claims – saving £40 a year for most motorists.
If put into place successfully, millions of motorists across the UK would benefit from the lowered claim levels, as insurers promise to pass on…
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This week sees a new feature added to Liftshare communities and schemes – social directories.
Where overarching Liftshare schemes exist with smaller groups underneath, the directories show these groups along with how many people belong to them, and the avatars of the latest registrations.
Remember our previous blog on our Tech Team A/B testing new features? This was one of…
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Welsh-based insurer Admiral has announced that it will analyse the personalities of first-time drivers by checking their Facebook profiles before offering them policies.
The scheme will be optional, but will see Admiral use an algorithm to examine social media pages to determine whether or not the customer is likely to be a careful driver. A ‘snapshot’ of their social media…
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A historical employment tribunal has ruled in favour of Uber drivers in the UK – confirming that they are not self-employed, and so should receive the national living wage alongside other employment benefits. Uber will appeal the judgment.
James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam brought the case to tribunal on behalf of a group of 19 drivers, arguing that they were…
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Jaguar Land Rover staff at the company’s Halewood site took Liftshare Week 2016 as an opportunity to galvanise their sharing culture – and signed up almost 350 new members to their scheme as a result of the campaign!
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The AA has reported that motorists face paying nearly £82 more for car insurance than a year ago, with prices predicted to continue heading upward in the near future.
The latest British Insurance Premium Index shows that typical premium quotes have risen by 16.3% over the last year. The AA attribute this upsurge to three main factors; two increases in Insurance…
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This year our Tech Team have increased the number of experiments that they run on Liftshare.com, implementing dozens of them, often as multi-variant A/B tests. On this blog I share on some of the lessons learnt from our Chief Product Officer, Sergio.
In case you’re not familiar with the term, according to Optimizely, A/B testing (also known as split…
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Insurance is a huge expense for most drivers, and especially those who haven’t been driving long. Using Liftshare doesn’t affect your insurance, and we’re supported by the ABI (that’s the Association of British Insurers). Liftsharing may save you money on fuel, but how can you save on insurance, without compromising your safety?
We caught up with Luke, Chief Marketing Officer at ingenie…
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The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has lent it’s support to a call for car insurers to be more upfront with price information on renewal notices.
The proposal is that insurers have to include previous price information on renewal notices, so that it would be as easy as possible for customers to see any change in their premium – whether…
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