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Thomas is an entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of electric mobility with more than 20 years of experience in this field. After years in Hong Kong and a successful exit from e-max that was acquired by Vmoto, Thomas founded Govecs in 2009.

Today, Govecs has a 10.5% market share in the fragmented shared electric moped market, making it the fourth-largest manufacturer in the world and the largest from Europe.

We spoke with him about the benefits and advantages of being a German-based company with production facilities in Europe, the increasing importance of total cost of ownership (TCO) for a...

Christian began his entrepreneurial career in his teenage years when he founded and ran a successful web design agency. In 2007, he co-founded Jimdo, which went on to become one of the world’s leading DIY website builders. After stepping back from daily operations at Jimdo, he founded Dance, the premium e-bike subscription provider, with SoundCloud founders Quidenus-Wahlforss and Ljung.
We spoke to Christian about the market potential of tech-enabled e-bike subscriptions, how they stand out from existing sharing models, and the increasing challenges in the supply chain.

Silvia joined FREE NOW in 2020 to support the strategic transition from a pure ride-hailing provider to the leading Mobility-as-a-Service platform in Europe. In her role, she is responsible for integrating mobility operators into the FREE NOW platforms to achieve the goal of comprehensive multimodality.
With her, we talked about the conscious decision to become a multimodal platform:
- What’s behind the strategy to become Europe’s super mobility app to get from A to B?
- What’s the business model of FREE NOW?
- How do you differentiate from Bolt, Uber, Cabify or SIXT?
- What's the size and scale...

Nico is nothing less than a home-grown SIXT veteran. He started his career back in 2004 as a trainee and steered the SIXT core business of car rental with the branch network as Operations and Business Development Manager before he shaped free-floating car sharing as Co-CEO at DRIVE NOW. Since 2018, Nico has served as Divisional Director Mobility Operations and was thus responsible for the digitalization initiatives, the car-sharing offer and the SIXT ONE platform at an early stage. In January 2021, Nico was appointed Chief Operations Officer.

Together we shed light on the reasons for SIXT's expansion from the...

Oliver Mackprang is a native Canadian who has lived in Berlin for 15 years. In 2012, he founded the carsharing aggregator company CarJump which was sold to PSA in 2016 and where the app was subsequently renamed in free2move. He has previously worked for the management consulting firm KEARNEY as well as the ridepooling provider MOIA before joining MILES in 2019.

We spoke to Oliver about how MILES differentiates itself in a competitive market, what developments he has seen in recent years and what he expects in the coming years, how they are improving their operational excellence and finally the...

After having built up the career platform squeaker.net, Jonas is leading for the last ten years large-scale digital strategy and transformation projects in the automotive, mobility and TMT sectors at Strategy&, part of the PwC network.

He focuses on digital innovation, data-driven business models, ecosystem partner management and corporate venturing. We explored with Jonas the question of how large automotive companies innovate and which business models he believes are emerging. In particular, the question of where new value is being created and who has the greatest chances of succeeding in those new value pools.We explored with Jonas the question of...

Detlef Müller is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

He strongly believes that the federal government needs to invest money in public transportation if it wants to overcome the status quo and reach the climate goals of the Parisian Climate Agreement.

In this episode, he explains the role he sees public transport and private (shared) mobility providers playing and how the providers harmonize without cannibalizing each other.

Daniela Kluckert is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and serves as deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

Daniela is committed to ensuring that all road users have equal rights and that decisions about the future are made in a non-ideological way.

In this episode, she tells us how she envisions multimodal transport smart connections between different mobility modes in the future and how the governing authorities can provide the right impulses.

Since 2017, Stefan Gelbhaar has been a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) as the spokesperson for urban mobility and cycling.
Since 2020, he is the spokesperson for transport policy for the Green Party.

We spoke to him about the three most important transport policy cornerstones of the Greens’ election program:
a. tackling the climate crisis by de-carbonizing the transport sector
b. improving road safety
c. addressing urbanization by restructuring transport flows and introducing new mobility services (Mobility as a Service)

At just 32 years old, Matteo founded Estrima with the vision to improve the quality of mobility in the city, thanks to a vehicle designed not only for private use but for hiring and sharing as well.
He takes us onto the journey of his company, explains the advantages of a covered LEV and why they designed a new type of vehicle including a peer-to-peer solution.