Carré Mobility

Carré Mobility is a German shared mobility platform that equips residential neighbourhoods ("Karrees"/Quartiere) with pooled vehicles and neighbourhood services, and sells the underlying platform to the housing industry. Residents use a mobile app to locate and book vehicles available near their building — electric cars, e-cargo bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters — either from commercial sharing fleets or from privately owned vehicles shared within the neighbourhood. For housing companies, the platform is positioned as a way to optimise use of space and reduce costs while offering tenants convenient, lower-emission mobility, with tooling to manage services, track usage and analyse data.

Beyond vehicle sharing, the company defines three service categories: sharing services, ride-sharing (Mitfahrdienste) and "bring-along" services (Mitbringdienste), in which residents assemble a digital shopping list from the assortment of local shops and have goods brought home. The resulting neighbourhood marketplace is intended to connect residents with local commerce; during the COVID-19 period it was described as a way to supply at-risk groups with everyday goods. The company name is explained as a play on several meanings: "care", the French "carrée" (quarter/neighbourhood), "car-e" (electric car) and the German colloquial "Karre".

Founding story

Founder and CEO Franziska Weiser has said the concept grew out of her interest in future mobility and her experience as a resident of a multi-party building in Rüsselsheim, where irregular public transport, few sharing options and patchy access to everyday goods made life without a private car difficult, particularly for the ill or elderly; the idea combines community cohesion, sharing offers and platform technology [3].

Business model

B2B2C: Carré Mobility supplies its shared mobility platform and services to housing companies, which in turn offer mobility to their residents; the consumer app lets tenants redeem a monthly mobility budget included in their rent (available only in some areas) or book mobility subscriptions ("Abonnements") for reduced fares [0][2].

Sources indicate monetisation through mobility subscriptions offering reduced fares and rent-embedded mobility budgets provided via landlords, alongside services sold to housing companies [0][2].

Traction

The Android app had 500+ downloads recorded on Google Play; the company works with housing, municipal, academic and local partners including gewobau, GBG Mannheim, the city of Rüsselsheim and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, and was selected as a Best Practice of the Deutscher Mobilitätspreis 2020 [0][3].

Latest developments

The Google Play listing for the Carré Mobility app records an update on 2026-08-03 citing improved application stability [0].