Ola Consumer restarts car-pooling service after 4 years

Ola Consumers resumes cab service

Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Consumer has officially relaunched its car-pooling feature 'Ola Share' on its app, after nearly four years of shutting down the service due to Covid-19 protocols.

Ola Cabs launches share option

This comes a week after Aggarwal announced the feature at its annual community event 'Sankalp' on August 15.

"We are bringing back Ola Share for cheaper rides, with lower cost rides. This time the experience is much better with AI driven algorithm...We will look at expanding to other cities soon," Aggarwal said.

In 2020, Ola suspended shared rides temporarily in an effort to curb spread of coronavirus that has killed over 10,000 persons so far globally.

Ride-hailing firms are looking to launch car and auto pooling services in select cities. Uber launched Group Rides in Delhi and similarly Rapido launched auto-pooling services in Bengaluru.