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| Industry | Carsharing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 [1] |
| Founder | Gijs van Lookeren Campagne[2] and Jan Borghuis[3] |
| Headquarters | Rotterdam, Netherlands[1] |
Area served | Germany (40+), Netherlands (130+) |
Key people | Phillip Gronstedt - director, Andrew Berkhout - director [4] |
| Services | Carsharing |
| Revenue | 13 millions € (2015)[5] |
Number of employees | >50 |
| Divisions | Greenwheels Germany |
| Website | www |
Greenwheels is the largest carsharing corporation in the Netherlands and also operates in Germany. Operations in the United Kingdom ceased on 1 March 2013.[6]
Founded as Collect Car B.V. on 21 June 1995 by Gijs van Lookeren Campagne and Jan Borghuis, who were inspired by car sharing by German students in the 1980s.[7] Now the biggest and most successful carsharing company of the Netherlands, Collect Car B.V., Rotterdam, - better known by its trademark 'Greenwheels' - bought the majority of the shares of StattAuto, a German carsharing company (founded in 1994 as StattAuto Hamburger CarSharing GmbH) in 2004. The car sharing firm received a financial boost by Dutch entrepreneur Eckart Wintzen[8] in 1997. By the end of 2005, Greenwheels owned 98.5% of StattAuto shares. Greenwheels also operated in London as Greenwheels UK until 1 March 2013.[6] In April 2013 it was announced that a consortium consisting of the Volkswagen Financial Services AG ( 60% ) and the Dutch VW importer Pon Holdings B.V. ( 40% ) acquired an unspecified amount of shares in CollectCar B.V.[9]
Early 2016, the CarSharing company Quicar in Hannover was acquired by Volkswagen Leasing GmbH. Greenwheels will continue 60 Quicar stations from 1 April 2016 and occupy a total of 80 vehicles of the types VW up !, VW Golf Variant 5th generation and VW Caddy .[5]
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- ^ "Impressum". greenwheels.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019.
- ^ a b Volkswagen Quicar - Neues Konzept für Carsharing, 15. Januar 2016
- ^ a b "Greenwheels end all activities in UK". 1 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
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- ^ Autoflotte online: VW Financial Services steigt bei "Greenwheels" ein, 26 April 2013.