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Jaguar Land Rover and InMotion invest $25m in ride-sharing platform Lyft

  • InMotion invests in #Lyft to collaborate on mobility services
  • Jaguar Land Rover to supply #Lyft drivers with a fleet of vehicles
  • Technology collaboration will allow innovation and wide scale testing of new services
  • Lyft is the fastest-growing rideshare company in the US
  • InMotion Ventures is Jaguar Land Rover’s new mobility services business

Coventry, UK, 12 June 2017: InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover’s mobility services business, today announced a $25m (£19m) investment in #Lyft, the fastest-growing rideshare company in the U.S.

This investment will support Lyft’s expansion and technology plans. It will also provide Jaguar Land Rover’s #inmotionventures with the opportunity to develop and test its mobility services, including autonomous vehicles, and to supply #Lyft drivers with a fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.

We are excited to collaborate with a leading platform like #Lyft not only on developing premium mobility solutions but also devising innovative solutions to the transport problems Jaguar Land Rover’s customers face.

Personal mobility and smart transportation is evolving and this new collaborative venture will provide a real-world platform helping us develop our connected and autonomous services.

SEBASTIAN PECKINMOTION MANAGING DIRECTOR

We’re excited to join forces with #jaguarlandrover and InMotion. #Lyft envisions a future where shared mobility will transform cities and improve people’s lives. This #partnership will help us achieve that ambitious goal.

JOHN ZIMMERLYFT PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER

This is a strategic investment for both parties as we focus on innovating new mobility solutions for our customers. Collaborating with an expanding technology business like #Lyft is going to help us both accelerate our ambitions.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF #corporate AND STRATEGYHANNO KIRNER

InMotion’s latest investment follows its recent seed investment in SPLT, the Detroit-based digital carpool business, which works with #Lyft to provide non-emergency medical transport.

The #Lyft investment was included as part of the company's most recent round of fundraising, which closed in April.

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