{"id":15021,"date":"2018-12-07T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2018-12-07T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:02:42","slug":"the-sofia-based-e-car-sharing-company-spark-to-expand-to-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/the-sofia-based-e-car-sharing-company-spark-to-expand-to-bucharest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sofia-Based E-Car Sharing Company Spark to Expand to Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14740 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars.jpg 958w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-600x331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-260x143.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Spark-E-cars-136x75.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/>Spark, the first electric car sharing company in Bulgaria, announced its plans to enter the market in Romania. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spark.bg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spark <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launched its business a year ago in cooperation with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulgarian company <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eldrive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, active in building infrastructure for charging stations for electric cars, and with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lithuanian e-car sharing company <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rideshare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September 2017, Spark started its activities with 25 cars in Sofia, but increased its fleet to 100 cars this year. The company plans to expand its fleet in the capital to 400 cars in 2019. Spark grew in Sofia with an investment from the NEVEQ EU Venture Capital Fund. The service quickly found clients in Sofia and is now looking for further expansion to other European capitals. Bucharest is chosen to be the next destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Sofia, the service has over 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">000 users registered in the Spark mobile application allowing them to find and rent cars. Eldrive has more than 60 charging stations in the capital. Users are mostly people with modern urban lifestyle in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25-40 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">age group. The service is mostly used as an alternative to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">private cars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with an average driving time of about 20 minutes or between 8 and 12 kilometers per rental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can learn more about Spark and Eldrive from the Bulgarian section of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online media<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendingtopics.at\/ev-carsharing-spark-new-markets-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trendingtopics.at<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Spark, the first electric car sharing company in Bulgaria, announced its plans to enter the market in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}