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BlaBlaCar closes strategic investment in Obilet

Dec 12 / 2024

BlaBlaCar announces that it has closed a majority investment in Obilet, the leading online bus travel agency in Turkey, and in the top 3 inter-city bus marketplace globally. This move further confirms BlaBlaCar’s global footprint as an aggregator of shared ground transportation.

BlaBlaCar launches Zen, a new app to crack carpooling for occasional short-distance trips

Dec 10 / 2024

BlaBlaCar aims to fill a gap in carpooling services, ensuring every car trip becomes an opportunity to carpool. Zen leverages the inherent flexibility of occasional trips, allowing carpoolers to adapt their personal travel plans more easily. BlaBlaCar is expanding its experimentation to about ten regions in France, following a pilot phase conducted on a smaller sample.

BlaBlaCar adds train booking in Spain

Nov 07 / 2024

BlaBlaCar announces the integration of train ticket offers from Spanish operators Renfe and Iryo into its platform. This initiative marks a new step in BlaBlaCar’s multimodal strategy, which aims to consolidate all sustainable transportation options within a single application. BlaBlaCar thus becomes the first platform in Spain to enable passengers to compare and book seats for carpooling, buses, and trains, simplifying access to shared and sustainable mobility while reducing single-passenger car travel.

In the press

Oct 19 / 2021

Rising fuel prices: carpooling takes off, according to Nicolas Brusson, CEO of BlaBlaCar. Watch the interview.

Oct 19 / 2021

BlaBlaCar reaches 100 million members, partly due to the price of fuel. Read the article.

Sep 14 / 2021

BlaBlaCar launches insurance and driving coach. BlaBlaCar's insurance offer is accompanied by a smartphone application that studies driving and provides road safety advice. Read the article.