Carsharing

Avant Car runs Slovenia's biggest electric car sharing system, Avant2Go, with a fleet of 500 fully electric vehicles. Further expansion is planned, says director Matej Čer.

Additional locations and vehicles will be added in Slovenia to ensure broad coverage and meet the needs of users, Čer told the Slovenian Press Agency.

The 11th Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled to uphold the decision to block access to Uber, a popular internet-based private transportation service, and ban the company from operating in Türkiye.

Ride-hailing company Uber announced on Wednesday in New York that it is about to launch water taxis in Greece, starting with Mykonos.

Holidaymakers on the Cyclades island will from mid-June be able to book a boat trip through the Uber app, for a maximum of eight people per ride.

'Fun' and 'freedom' came at a price, however.

Not formally employed by the digital courier giant, Marin [not his real name] couldn't be paid directly into his personal bank account, so managers at Glovo recommended he try an intermediary, a so-called aggregator, which would become his official employer.

The mobility platform Free2move launched its car rental service in Slovenia on Thursday, announcing that additional services, such as fleet sharing vehicle financing and the use of car parks and electric charging points, are to follow.

Uber paid the U.S. state of New Jersey $100 million in back taxes and fines for labeling nearly 300,000 of its drivers as self-employed and withholding required benefits, officials said on Sept. 13.

Greece beat Belgium in Athens 85-68

An increasing number of Greek businesses are implementing work-from-home programs to protect their employees and the public from the new coronavirus.

Companies whose staff are or will be working from home include online shopping platforms such as Skroutz and efood, as well as the taxi service Beat.

Uber company inaugurated on Tuesday in Bucharest the largest center in Central and Eastern Europe that offers assistance to drivers and business partners in Romania, a center where they can contact directly Uber representatives to discuss various issues.

Spark, a new car-sharing service, entered the Romanian market offering local customers electric cars to drive themselves and use over the desired period of time, Economica.net reported.

Spark was set up in Lithuania in 2016 by Lithuanian entrepreneurs, after which the Bulgarian entrepreneurs joined in 2017.