Arcimoto recently partnered with JOCO on a three-wheel EV-sharing pilot program for last-mile delivery in Manhattan. Ÿnsect: Called “Europe’s best-funded insect farming startup,” the company is valued at $625 million and has raised $425 million since its founding in 2011, including $372 million in 2020, per Sifted.

The news: Tesla released more details on its planned robotaxi, a new vehicle it is building around the needs of ride-sharing customers, per Elektrek. Why it’s worth watching:  Robotaxis are just the latest in a long list of upcoming Tesla products. These include electric semi-trucks, the oft-delayed Cybertruck, an updated roadster, and a humanoid robot.

Sharing and pooling same-brand rewards with friends and family increases their utility and value. Sharing can translate to gifting, while pooling can make rewards go further. Both can trigger acquisition when customers promote cards to consumers who don’t have them. Donating rewards to a charity delivers altruism to cardholders and gives marketing opportunities to issuers.

Close to half of US adults believe widespread use of driverless cars would be bad for society. Meanwhile, 26% think it’d be good for autonomous vehicles to rule the roads, and 29% aren’t sure.

Uber and Lyft have continued to add users despite these roadblocks and have made transportation-sharing the key driver of the US sharing economy. Transportation-sharing is also benefiting from secular growth toward "Transportation as a Service" (TaaS), as some users are moving away from car ownership.

We expect Uber’s ride-sharing sales in the US to decline by 39.8% this year to $17.39 billion (down from $28.88 billion in 2019). Lyft’s sales will decline by 25.0% to $8.97 billion (down from $11.95 billion last year).

Cardholders earn 3 miles for every $1 spent on United purchases and 2 miles for every $1 spent on all other travel—including airfare, trains, local transit, cruise lines, hotels, car rentals, taxicabs, resorts, ride-sharing services, and tolls—as well as dining and streaming services. Customers also earn 1 mile for every $1 spent on all other purchases.

The shared mobility market will pick up considerably in 2022, as consumers get more comfortable sharing vehicles following the pandemic’s height. The uptick in flexible working arrangements will also incentivize flexible car usage.

The campaign includes a TikTok challenge, suggesting a desire to engage the brand's younger target market that prefers the video-sharing app.

This model has been a great fit for the recipe box industry, but there’s growing consumer thirst for it across many other sectors, from fashion to autos. Sectors that thrive on repeatable business might pique a good amount of interest pitching a subscription service to customers. This model will also furnish them with a great amount of consumer data that they’ve opted in to sharing.

It also pointed out things that we can improve on as an industry, and this is what some of the research that we'll be sharing at the NewFronts this year is. The rinse, wash, repeat cycle of planning, executing, and optimizing, it's been rewritten, accelerated by the pandemic, but now increasingly enabled by CTV.