On-demand car-rental competitors ReachNow and Car2Go will soon become one and the same company.
The startups’ German parent companies — BMW and Daimler, respectively — announced Wednesday they would combine their “mobility services” into one entity.
That includes Seattle-based ReachNow, a service that was launched in 2016 and has 1,300 cars across Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn; and Austin-based Car2Go, founded in 2008 and with 3,100 vehicles across seven U.S. cities.
ReachNow has offered the most significant competition to Car2Go since it launched two years ago. It has more than 80,000 members across its three cities. Car2Go has 499,000 U.S. members, with 113,000 in Seattle.
