Revv to Offer 1000 Cars to Healthcare Workers at Zero Fee

Self-drive automobile rental startup Revv on Friday said it will offer over 1,000 cars at zero fee to aid healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

This service is now live in five cities — Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Pune, the company said in a statement.

In each of these cities, Revv will make its current armada of cars available, free of accuse, to healthcare workers currently engaged in active duty at a hospital, upon submission of relevant ID proof.

Revv said information technology will mobilise over 1,000 cars to start with and include more as the need escalates.

Founded past ex-McKinsey executives, Anupam Agarwal and Karan Jain, Revv started in July 201 from Delhi-NCR.

"Healthcare workers battling the COVID-19 crisis at the frontline are our true heroes, and several of them are facing challenges with their commute to hospitals because of no availability of public transport. This is the least that we tin do for them," said the co-founders.

"We're inviting partners across these cities to help us accelerate this. For case, in Bengaluru, we are partnering with a 12,000 potent denizen volunteer grouping, to facilitate the distribution of these cars to healthcare workers that they are engaged with," they added.

In each of the five cities where Revv is providing this service, healthcare workers can attain out to the company at 9250035555 to place a booking, the visitor said, calculation that Revv will likewise add the service to its website and apps soon.

After placing the booking, the healthcare worker can pick upwardly the machine from Revv's delivery centres, and use information technology gratuitous of accuse.
Merely they volition have to make a security deposit of Rs ii,500 which is fully refundable.

Revv will require the user to share a copy of his proof of work (such as the hospital ID carte) at the fourth dimension of placing the booking.

All the cars will exist sanitised before handover, the company said.

Revv counts Hyundai as its strategic investor, and Hyundai and G&One thousand as its subscriptions partners.