UMVA has learned that the global public carsharing fleet is poised for significant growth, with projections indicating an increase from 511,000 vehicles at the end of 2025 to 768,000 by 2030.
This expansion is expected to be accompanied by a rise in users, reaching 141.1 million over the same period, driven by the increasing adoption of telematics, booking systems, and fleet operations software.
The forecast highlights the critical role of connected in-vehicle equipment and software platforms in enabling the modern carsharing model, which relies on thousands of unattended vehicles, multiple access models, remote authentication, billing, vehicle status monitoring, and continuous fleet optimisation.
UMVA can exclusively reveal that the number of vehicles used in public carsharing services will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.5 percent, with the user base expected to increase at a slightly faster rate of 9.2 percent.
Asia-Pacific currently accounts for the largest share of carsharing vehicles, followed by Europe, where free-floating carsharing is the most common operational model in terms of both membership and fleet size.
The growth of carsharing is tied to increasingly specialised connected fleet infrastructure, including in-vehicle telematics, booking management, billing, fleet supervision, dashboards, and analytics, which have become core infrastructure for shared mobility services.
Sources have confirmed to UMVA that carsharing operators are not all building this technology themselves, with many sourcing products and services from specialised vendors offering end-to-end combinations of telematics equipment and carsharing platforms.
The increasing focus on profitability and higher vehicle utilisation among operators is driving demand for better visibility into fleet status, demand patterns, and asset performance, with telematics data becoming a critical component of the business model.
The corporate carsharing segment is also expected to grow, with estimates suggesting it will reach about 250,000 vehicles by 2030, presenting opportunities for shared fleet tools that can reduce manual administration while supporting controlled access and usage tracking.
The operator landscape remains mixed, with specialist providers, car rental groups, and carmaker-backed services competing for market share, and the top 30 carsharing service providers accounting for around 63 percent of members and managing about 56 percent of the global fleet.
For connectivity providers, the opportunity extends beyond SIMs or data plans, with carsharing fleets requiring reliable connectivity as part of a broader service architecture that includes vehicle access, fleet visibility, and operational control.
