Greenwheels
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company (Germany) |
| Seat | Dortmund , Germany |
| management | Alexander Hinz, Andrew Berkhout |
| Number of employees | > 30 |
| sales | 13 million € (2015) |
| Branch | car sharing |
| Website | www.greenwheels.de |
The Greenwheels GmbH is a car sharing provider, which is 1988 in Berlin , first as StattAuto car sharing was established. This made her the first car sharing company in Germany and the inventor of the name StattAuto, which was used in several cities. In 2016, Greenwheels was represented in 22 German cities with 330 of its own vehicles.
Company history
The company was founded in 1988 with Markus Petersen as managing director, initially as StattAuto CarSharing GbR and then as a GmbH in Berlin . It was the first car sharing company in Germany . In the early 1990s, Petersen's brother Carsten joined the company as managing director, which initially only operated in Berlin. In 1994, the StattAuto Hamburger CarSharing GmbH was founded in Hamburg by Bernd Kremer and Stefan Wendt-Reese, which finally merged with the Berliner GmbH in 1998 to form StattAuto CarSharing AG, the first German stock corporation in car sharing.
Bernd Kremer (1998–1999), Stefan Wendt-Reese (1998–1999) and Carsten Petersen (1998–2001) were the first board members of StattAuto CarSharing AG. Markus Petersen was chairman of the supervisory board until 1999 and then moved to the executive board. After 2001 there were changing board members.
In 2000, after an investment course that had begun in 1999, the company got into a severe financial crisis, which was averted by the customers foregoing their deposits and the participation of numerous German car sharing providers via shareway AG. Thanks to a far-reaching restructuring concept and the participation of CollectCar BV (a company operating in the Netherlands under the Greenwheels brand), which has existed since 2004 , StattAuto was saved.
Since the end of December 2005, StattAuto CarSharing AG has been wholly owned by CollectCar BV. In March 2006, the Berlin subsidiary was renamed Greenwheels AG. After the Dutch parent company had taken over ShellDrive Deutschland GmbH , which mainly operates in West and South Germany, at the beginning of 2006 , fundamental restructuring measures began, at the end of which the integration of ShellDrive Deutschland, which was renamed Greenwheels GmbH during the takeover, into Greenwheels AG and the name change of the entire company in Greenwheels GmbH (December 2006). This makes Greenwheels one of the largest car sharing providers in Germany, with 20,000 customers and over 500 vehicles in 7 federal states, including Berlin , Hamburg , Saxony , Bavaria and various cities in North Rhine-Westphalia . In a car sharing test by Stiftung Warentest in 2012, Greenwheels was one of the test winners with the grade "Good" (1.8).
In April 2013 it became known that a consortium made up of Volkswagen Financial Services AG (60%) and the Dutch VW importer and mobility provider Pon Holdings BV (40%) had acquired an undisclosed amount of shares in CollectCar BV. In August 2015 the ADAC tested greenwheels in Berlin as the "cheapest provider tested in Berlin".
At the beginning of 2016, the car sharing company QuiCar from Volkswagen Leasing GmbH from Hanover was taken over and ceased operations on April 1, 2016. Greenwheels then continued 60 of the Quicar stations and filled them with 80 VW up! , VW Golf Variant of the 5th generation and VW Caddy .
Greenwheels has been working with Europe's largest car sharing platform Drivy since August 2018. With 300 vehicles in Berlin, Drivy and Greenwheels will jointly become the third largest car sharing provider in Berlin after Car2Go and DriveNow.
StattAuto Berlin eV
The history of the Berliner GmbH and the StattAuto CarSharing AG also includes the StattAuto Berlin eV , an association that was supposed to ensure contact between the company and customers or shareholders and was initiated by Markus and Carsten Petersen. The function was ensured by the supervisory board together with the Hamburg association also in the AG. In 2006 the association was incorporated into the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD), in which context it is dedicated to general transport policy issues.
StattAuto Hamburg eV
In Hamburg, the CarSharing company was launched in 1991 by Stattauto Hamburg eV. Due to the strong growth, the business was handed over to Hamburger GmbH in 1995 under the direction of Bernd Kremer and Stefan Wendt-Reese. However, the association continued to represent the interests of customers through the GmbH's supervisory board. In 2001 the association was dissolved.
literature
- Markus Petersen: Economic Analysis of Car Sharing. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-8244-6111-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.greenwheels.com/de/privat/impressum
- ↑ a b c Volkswagen Quicar - New concept for car sharing , January 15, 2016
- ↑ Carsharing: Car sharing provider in a practical test. In: test. 10/2012, pp. 68–73 and on test.de (magazine of Stiftung Warentest)
- ↑ Car fleet online: VW Financial Services joins "Greenwheels" , April 26, 2013.
- ^ [1] ADAC test 2016: car sharing in German cities
- ↑ Drivy press release, 25. October 2018 [2]