Wunder Mobility Podcast

The episode contains a useful cluster of operational benchmarks (rides-per-day thresholds, utilization percentages, density targets, trip durations by city) that operators would find practical, but they are buried in extensive hedging, throat-clearing, and meandering responses that dilute the signal-to-noise ratio significantly.

“four maybe five two seven rides per car per day. then You were for sure scratching the profitability”

“twenty-five to thirty-five percent is absolutely feasible to achieve”

Most of the content is standard operational wisdom that experienced car-sharing operators would already know - dynamic pricing, gig relocation, fleet density - with very few genuinely counterintuitive angles; the insurance-per-ride margin math and the airport relocation cost-save are the most distinctive moments but are still incremental rather than reframing anything.

“if you average cost per trip might be let's say ten euros and your putting a one euro reduce your deductible on top of people can opt into That's ten percent more revenue. But your margin on this one year old might be fifty percent”

“airport relocations we did chair now. It was a really very important pillar on our hand side to optimize or cost them”

Slavko is a genuine practitioner who was CPO then COO at ShareNow (the Car2Go/DriveNow merger, the largest free-floating car-sharing operator globally) and subsequently led tech at a major EV charging platform - he has done this at real scale and speaks from direct operational experience rather than punditry.

“Slavko spent five years as Chief Product and Technology Officer then COO at Chernow the merger of Car to go and drive now”

“we from instance from Cardigo or Chernow in the past...What for us was very important and crucial To have a deeper possible integration into the car estate optimize the maintenance”

There are named companies (ShareNow, Miles, CityBee, Waymo), city-level benchmarks, and ranges for key metrics (rides per day, utilization %, trip durations, forecast deviation), but nearly every figure comes with wide bands and the revenue uplift claims (25 - 70%) are asserted without any verifiable customer data or methodology.

“seven to nine rides per car per day absolutely feasible impossible in berlin”

“five thousand crowd our community with roughly five-thousand Streetcrowers”

The host shows genuine preparation - structures sections upfront, pushes back on the petrol-head anecdote, and correctly probes the cost side of claimed revenue uplifts - but repeatedly accepts non-answers when the guest declines to share percentages (e.g. fulfillment rate, walking-distance drop-off), leaving several important threads unresolved.

“going to push back a little bit on this because I feel like there's might be sort of the petrol heads talking in a way”

“I would be worried. That yes, i can fulfill all this one. if i do a ton of manual relocations but then not actually...i might actually be losing more money”