Bengaluru-based vehicle sharing Vehicle sharing platform Drivezy has announced a strategic partnership with Gurugram-based hospitality unicorn OYO Hotels and Homes.As part of this move,Drivezy will now be stationed at OYO properties across India as it partners with OYO with a target to leverage it’s network of over 10,000 leased and franchised buildings across 300 cities. The company said this figure is in addition to 1,200 bikes it has already stationed at OYO hotels in cities of Bengaluru and Hyderabad and create on-site hubs to station its bikes and cars.. OYO’s guests and other Drivezy customers have easy access to its vehicles.
Drivezy,a peer-to-peer bike and car sharing service platform was founded by Ashwarya Pratap Singh, Hemant Kumar Sah, Vasant Verma, Abhishek Mahajan, and Amit Sahu in 2015.It said it has 4000 cars and 14000 bikes listed on its platform.
Drivezy said on Monday that it also targets to enhance the tally to one lakh bikes and cars, at OYO properties across India, over the next three years.
Drivezy CEO Ashwarya Singh described these partnership move as a step towards ensuring the “well-being of the assets being rented and prevent vandalism.” “To counter this, we are establishing a dense network of parking spaces in all operational cities and our association with OYO is a step in that direction,” he said.
They have also initiated the deployment of keyless IoT locks to unlock vehicles with a QR code scanner, accessible on the app, Singh added.
As said by Cofounder of Drivezy, Amit Sahu, “Establishing on-site hubs with OYO will allow us to further increase our penetration in the growing tourism sector which is mostly dependent on cabs and chauffeur- driven car rentals.”
To avail Drivezy, OYO guests need to sign up on the Drivezy platform and type the pin code and he/she will get the first preference to hire the vehicle and as the vehicles are parked in the property itself.
The car rental space is rapidly growing in India and one of the major factors has been the changing consumer behaviour when it comes to mobility and vehicle ownership. On a year-on-year basis, the overall passenger vehicle sales has come down to 17% to 2,45,599 units in April 2019 as compared to 2,96,369 units in April 2018, according to a report by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).
Drivezy is now in the fray in car rental space with taxi aggregators and ridesharing startups such as Ola, Uber, QuickRide, Bounce, ZoomCar, among others.
