Toyota Established Mobility Services Platform

Nov 10, 2016

“As a mobility service platform provider, by collaborating with various companies and services, we would like to help create a new mobility society in order to offer safer and more convenient mobility to our customers,” said Shigeki Tomoyama, President of Toyota’s in-house Connected Company.

Toyota has already begun to change our mobile society by partnering with Uber, one of the largest ride-sharing services in the US, and car-sharing company, Getaround. The next step is for Toyota to introduce their Mobility Service Platform (MSPF), which will help mobility service providers serve their customers better.

MSPF empowers drivers and passengers through functions like leasing programs, vehicle management systems, and technological innovations like Toyota’s new Smart Key Box (SKB). The Smart Key Box makes lending and renting cars easier and more secure by giving car-sharing users the ability to lock, unlock, and start their vehicle from their smartphone.

Toyota will roll out the MSPF and the SKB with Getaround in a pilot program beginning in January 2017 in San Francisco, CA.

“Toyota to Establish Car-Sharing and Other Mobility Services Platform Announces Collaboration with U.S. Car-Sharing Company – Getaround.” Toyota USA Newsroom. Toyota, 31 Oct. 2016. Web. 03 Nov. 2016.