This is the end of the Zity adventure in Paris. The Renault subsidiary Mobilize announced on Tuesday that it was ending its self-service car rental service due to the “constant damage” caused to its fleet. Arriving in Paris in May 2020, Zity offered its customers the opportunity to rent electric cars (Renault Zoé then Dacia Spring) for several minutes or hours, picking it up then returning it to any public parking space. But despite 100,000 registered customers, the service has failed to become profitable.
Closing January 15
“The significant and repeated damage (to) our vehicles in Paris very often made them unavailable and generated maintenance costs that had become unmanageable,” a Mobilize manager told AFP.
Zity will no longer be available from Monday January 15 in the capital and the few towns in the western suburbs it served (Boulogne, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Vanves), the company said in an email sent Tuesday to his clients.