The owner of the London Taxi Company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, has raised £275m for the development of greener hybrid taxis that will be made and ready to hit the streets in 2017. We covered the TX5 black cabs when details were released last year, but now the money has been raised, development and production can begin. Former Mayor of…

Summer 2016 sees a plethora of festivals take place, and more events than ever are encouraging revellers to liftshare there and back – to help keep the sites green, cut back on traffic queues, and extend your journey into a proper road trip! So, where to go this summer? Allow us to advise… Isle of Wight Festival – June 9th-12th Seaclose Park, Isle…

  Festivals are one of the times when Liftshare gets extra busy. There are a load of music fans out there who want to get to their events affordably, and have a fun journey too. Our member Jackson Jones is just one of them. He lives in Nottingham with his girlfriend, and really…

The AA have released their Fuel Price Report for May – and it’s not good news for car owners. The continued increase in world oil price has already pushed prices in the UK up to 109.10p per litre… and unfortunately it doesn’t look like it’ll be decreasing any time soon. Since mid-April, the average price of petrol has risen almost 2p,…

Every now and again we feature a great organisation or charity when we find one, and for this blog, it’s Kickstart. Kickstart are based in Dereham, Norfolk, and offer moped hire to people needing transport to work. A great service, and one that it seems not many people know about – so here’s some info on them. If you…

There’s so many buzzwords floating around about shared and sustainable transport options at the moment that it can be difficult to understand exactly what people are talking about. So, we’re going to try and explain each. Here’s our shared transport glossary to try and help: Carsharing def. the practice of sharing a car for regular travelling, especially for commuting. Carsharing is sharing spare…

The terms ‘sharing economy’ and ‘ridesharing’ have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries, alongside such terms as ‘janky’ and ‘superfan’ – among others. Liftshare started in the sharing economy space in 1998, so we were certainly at the spear-tip of the sector before the collective term was even invented. It’s taken a while, but recognition of the term is surely…