ekar is the only company in the Middle East able to offer users access to the entire self-drive vertical for cars from pay-per-minute to monthly rentals. Users can choose from thousands of short-term pay-per-minute, daily, and weekly carshare options, plus longer-term monthly car subscriptions packages with ekar’s ‘Self-drive Super App.’ ekar is releasing Peer to Peer rentals, or the Airbnb of cars, in select cities over the next few weeks.
Since its inception in 2016 by Founder Vilhelm Hedberg, ekar has grown from a 15-vehicle pilot program with Etihad Airways to a multi-country service used by more than 250,000 customers and booked an impressive 1.5 million trips. ekar operates in UAE, KSA, and will be launching Thailand and Malaysia in December 2021 with Egypt and Turkey launches scheduled for early 2022.
