Robocars Podcast - Upshift founder Ezra Goldman on fractional car ownership (A car for 8 days/month)

This week, I talk with Ezra Goldman, whose company sells fractional lease ownership of cars. You pay a monthly fee to get a car some number of days a month, they delivery it to you, pick it up and manage it. Goldman thinks this is the right sort of car access for many people, especially once remote driven or self-driven delivery makes it easy to share cars this way.

You can read a text story on this at https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/03/23/upshift-offers-fractional-car-subscriptions-where-does-that-fit-in-the-mobility-future/

https://www.upshiftcars.com/ is the company's site.

0:00 Intro and issues: Origin, Reposession
10:55 Upshift
14:00 Different styles
18:00 Keeping stuff
20:00 Personalization
21:15 Is sharing cars worth it?
31:00 Compared to car rental
37:00 Fleet owned robotaxi or hired-out?
41:40 Does robotaxi kill Upshift?
45:00 What approaches dominate?
47:00 Families and minivans
49:40 Younger drivers
52:30 Convenience of rental cars and others
54:20 Thanks

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