RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Road transport ride hosting platform BlaBlaCar intends to triple its user base in Brazil by 2022, said the European company on Monday, pointing out that it has reached the five million users mark in the country this month.
The startup, which is present in 22 countries, saw its user base in Brazil grow 315 percent since the beginning of 2018, cementing the country as the company’s third-largest market, as announced in a press release. Worldwide, the company claims to have a total of 80 million users.
BlaBlaCar provides a system in which people traveling to other cities may offer space in their cars to other users who are going in the same direction by charging a fee.
“In a country of continental dimensions, which depends on road transport for the displacement of people and with one of the largest fleets of vehicles in the world, working to fill the maximum number of available seats is crucial,” said the financial director of BlaBlaCar, Julien Lafouge, in a statement.
According to Lafouge, around 20,000 of the routes registered in BlaBlaCar are between cities which are not interconnected by any other type of transport. The company has 40,000 routes registered in its App in Brazil.