And Now… Car Sharing Comes to Town
By Ernest Mah Herh Sun
October 2020 FEATURE
THE TIMING COULDN’T have been more fortuitous for TREVO, a peer-to-peer car sharing platform. A subsidiary of SOCAR, TREVO was launched in February in the Klang Valley, and it is becoming popular in Penang.It employs a sharing economy model, much like AirBnB in home sharing, that encourages people to optimise the benefit of car ownership while presenting Penangites the opportunity to recover some semblance of financial stability.But how is the platform to complement the state’s mobility ecosystem? “Penang is a...
Ernest Mah Herh Sun
is currently pursuing his Master’s in English Language Studies at Universiti Malaya. A member of the varsity debating team, he loves singing, enjoys speaking and writing, and dreams of becoming the Malaysian Ryan Seacrest.
