{"id":215393,"date":"2019-05-22T01:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=215393"},"modified":"2019-05-22T01:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:11:20","slug":"gm-canada-to-keep-maven-car-sharing-in-toronto-as-number-of-u-s-cities-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/22\/gm-canada-to-keep-maven-car-sharing-in-toronto-as-number-of-u-s-cities-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Canada to keep Maven car sharing in Toronto as number of U.S. cities reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GM Canada has also designated Toronto as the future home of a \u201cmobility campus\u201d at the Eastern Avenue industrial corridor, east of the Don River Valley. (Denise Kappa \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 General Motors will continue to operate its Maven car-sharing service in Toronto despite plans to pull out of eight North American markets, including New York City and Chicago.<\/p>\n

GM Canada spokeswoman Jennifer Wright says the company continues to look for opportunities to improve and expand its Maven car-sharing operations in Canada.<\/p>\n

Maven’s Toronto fleet started in February 2018 with about 40 vehicles and a dozen Toronto locations \u2014 mostly in the downtown core and midtown neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n

The number of locations has more than doubled to 29 with more than 60 vehicles.<\/p>\n

Toronto was the first city outside the United States to have Maven, starting about two years after it was launched in 2016 in the United States.<\/p>\n

GM Canada has also designated Toronto as the future home of a \u201cmobility campus\u201d at the Eastern Avenue industrial corridor, east of the Don River Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a multi-use site (that includes) a dealership \u2014 you know, retail sales \u2014 but also a hotbed to show some of these latest innovations,\u201d Wright said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

GM continues to say it is committed to doing research and development in Canada, even as it plans to end vehicle assembly in Oshawa, Ont., by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

GM Canada president Travis Hester announced May 8, along with Unifor national president Jerry Dias, that about 22 hectares of the Oshawa facility will be converted into a test track for autonomous and other advanced vehicles.<\/p>\n

That would complement a nearby GM R&D centre in Oshawa and another north of Toronto in Markham. The two R&D facilities work on advanced safety, infotainment, software development and autonomous vehicle technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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