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Carma and City CarShare Form Strategic Alliance

Leaders in Shared Mobility Join Forces to Fight Bay Area Traffic   SAN FRANCISCO – August 12, 2015 – Carma, a world leader in commuter solutions, and City CarShare, the original Bay Area carsharing network, have announced their partnership. This strategic alliance allows the organizations to merge operations; creating new services that will transform the… Continue reading Carma and City CarShare Form Strategic Alliance

#LoveMyCommute
Carma is made up of a community of members with different lifestyles and reasons for carpooling. Austin members, to help show the rest of the city how carpooling benefits us all, we want to invite you to tell us your story.

 

Submit your best video, photo, song, or written entry that shows just how passionate you are about commuting with Carma. The top submission will receive a Dream Commute for a month! 

 

The prize includes:

  • Exclusive use of Carma’s Tesla Model S for 30 days
  • Brand new iPhone 6
  • A Coffee a Day ($150 gift card to Starbucks)
  • $100 in TxTag credit

 

Plus, 5 Runners-Up will receive a backpack of commuting goodies.

 

Submit your entry between now and March 10th at:
www.carmacarpool.com/love

 

We can’t wait to hear your stories and get the rest of Austin excited to try Carma. Cheers to loving your commute!

 

 

Carma AXLR8R meet: SafeMotos

  This week, I caught up with one of the teams taking part in Carma Axlr8r, SafeMotos. They’re building a motorcycle taxi-hailing app in Rwanda. Below, co-founder, Barrett Nash, talks a bit about what motivates them to work on changing transportation in Rwanda.   “Every twelve days, more than nine thousand people die across Africa… Continue reading Carma AXLR8R meet: SafeMotos

Carolina Rossi: What a month at Carma AXLR8R has taught me

  It has been a month since we got to Cork: a city in south west Ireland, where Carma Axlr8r is located. Probably, one of the most remarkable assets of this SOSventures-funded accelerator is that not only has it united carpool lovers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs, but, that it has put them together in an office… Continue reading Carolina Rossi: What a month at Carma AXLR8R has taught me

Sharing the Love with Toll Refunds Across Central Texas

We have to say it: we love Austin! Over the past year, the Carma community has grown and shown activity far beyond our program goals. 10,600 carpool trips over 172,000 miles were shared by members, 8,200 gallons of gas saved, $3,600 in commuting costs shared, and 160,600 pounds of CO2 emissions avoided. In addition, Carma gave over $2,500… Continue reading Sharing the Love with Toll Refunds Across Central Texas

10 million scheduled trips in 2015: time to talk occupancy

In a media landscape so awash with legislative warfare and the astronomical seed funding associated with taxi and taxi-sharing startups, it’s easy to forget where shareholders’ interests end and real societal benefit begins.   The taxi industry has successfully been disrupted, and those of us seeking short-range, on-demand transportation solutions have never had so many… Continue reading 10 million scheduled trips in 2015: time to talk occupancy

Trip the light fantastic

Everyone here at Carma has made resolutions for 2015. From crushing it at a local gym, to attempting some Tuvan throat singing, we’ve all resolved to push ourselves. And of course that means the app doesn’t escape our focus. ‘Match me’ in 2014 In the most recent version, we matched you to your next upcoming trip. If that trip didn’t… Continue reading Trip the light fantastic