Car sharing is quietly becoming a daily habit in the UAE — not just a tourist novelty. That is the pitch behind Udrive’s latest usage report, which claims residents now make up 90% of the platform’s customer base, a marker of everyday adoption rather than one-off rentals.
The pay-per-minute operator says its users drove more than 45 million kilometres in 2025 and logged over half a million trips during the year. Registrations grew 14% compared with 2024, and Udrive says it has now completed more than three million rentals to date across a fleet of over 2,000 vehicles.
Retention is the real story
The most telling figure is not distance or trips — it’s stickiness. Udrive says the share of active customers retained for 12 months or more jumped from 21% to 32%. In a mobility market crowded with apps that struggle to keep users past the first month, roughly a third of customers sticking around for a year suggests the model is edging from convenience into genuine routine.
“Stronger retention shows that flexible mobility is becoming part of daily life in the UAE, while supporting a more practical alternative to private vehicle dependency.”
Hasib Khan, Founder and CEO of Udrive
The company has expanded its network across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ajman, adding new “Business Zones” in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman to widen access across residential, commercial and lifestyle districts. The framing leans heavily on the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan and its emphasis on flexible transport — convenient positioning for a company whose growth depends on cities encouraging alternatives to private cars.
Udrive’s fleet spans Kia, Ford, BYD, MINI, Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan and Mitsubishi, with recent additions including MINI Convertibles and hybrid BYD Song and BYD QIN models — a nod toward electrified options as the service scales. One caveat worth noting: the figures come from Udrive itself, with no third-party audit, so the retention and adoption gains are best read as the company’s own scorecard. Even so, the trajectory points to car sharing maturing into a fixture of UAE urban mobility.
