Making Payments for EV Charging Easy and Safe: Experts Weigh in on How to Overcome the Challenges
Electric vehicle charging networks are growing substantially in such countries as the UK, but there are challenges to deal with, including how to ensure ease of payments while avoiding fraud.
There has been no shortage of ways to pay for the electricity needed to power the growing number of EVs on the road today. Historically, public charging networks have relied on multiple methods of taking payments. In addition to a large variety of mobile apps, customers have also used RFID fobs, contactless cards, QR codes and open-loop payments.
Small Dutch Start-Up that Bought MaaS Global Assets Says It Can Avoid ‘Pitfalls’ That Defeated Whim App
The small Dutch start-up that bought pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global from a bankruptcy administrator told Mobility Payments it has learned from the “pitfalls encountered” by the Whim app provider.
But recent Rotterdam-based start-up umob, which last week announced it had acquired the assets of
From Guru to Poster Child for MaaS’ Failures, Whim App Founder Calls it Quits
Sampo Hietanen, founder and CEO of high-profile mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global this evening issued some of first comments since his company filed for bankruptcy yesterday, lamenting, “Nothing breaks like a dream.”
Hietanen, considered a guru of the technology early on during his eight-year run as head of the Finnish start-up, later became the poster child for MaaS’ disappointing start.
MaaS Global Discloses Licensing Deal for Its Technology; Will It be Enough to Save Company?
MaaS Global founder and CEO Sampo Hietanen disclosed this week that the mobility-as-a-service start-up has a licensing deal with major Italian insurance company Unipol to introduce MaaS, though could offer few other details about the project.
Market Opportunity or Last Gasp? Pioneering MaaS Start-Up ‘Pivots’ to Stay in Business
Pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global plans to drop its B2C business model and will instead try to license its Whim platform and expertise to non-transport companies that want to launch MaaS to their customers, Mobility Payments has learned.
MaaS Global Lays Off More Employees; Faces Uncertain Future
The CEO and founder of financially strapped Finnish start-up MaaS Global, creator of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company is “reorganizing. That includes laying off more employees, after having closed at least one country operation last month.
Pioneering MaaS Start-Up Seeks Buyer, New Investors as Cash Crunch Worsens
MaaS Global, a pioneering mobility-as-a-service platform provider, is looking for a buyer, as it faces the prospect of running out of cash, Mobility Payments has learned.
MaaS App Trial in Sydney to Include Numerous Subscription Plans, Separate Booking for Private Mobility Services
The New South Wales government in Sydney has released more details about its “Opal Plus” mobility-as-a-service trial, which will offer a large number of weekly subscription plans that bundle rides on the metro, trains, trams and buses in the Australian state. In addition, users will apparently have to book rides with private mobility providers separately.
Updated: New South Wales Government to Roll Out Digital Opal, Launch MaaS Trial App
The New South Wales government in Australia plans to spend just under AU$568 million (US$395 million) to upgrade its Opal fare payments system, including rolling out a digital Opal card and launching a mobility-as-a-service app.
Insight: Whim Chief Seeks Scale with Acquisition; Says It’s Too Soon to Cast Doubt on MaaS
Sampo Hietanen, CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global, said his company’s acquisition of the Brazilian trip-planning and tracking app Quicko would help turn the app into a full-fledged mobility-as-a-service platform, while building scale for MaaS Global and its Whim technology.