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Podcast: Peggy Smedley Show
Episode: What’s Driving Rental Cars?
Description: Julie Shainock, managing director, travel, transport & logistics, Microsoft, joins Peggy Smedley to talk about what is driving the rental car industry. She says when you look at the rental car industry today, you are looking at a lot of different things that are happening in the marketplace: EVs (electric vehicles), AVs (autonomous vehicles), consolidation, digital transformation and a lot of legacy systems, and the new phenomenon around mobility-as-a-service. They also discuss: Strategic alliances, which company is using an EV fleet, and the trend around software-defined vehicles. Accelerating the commercialization of EVs and AVs. Mobility-as-as-service and hyper...