BlaBlaCar, a virtual community connecting people willing to share the costs of a road trip, is up and running in Brazil. EFE/File Sao Paulo, Nov 30 (EFE).- BlaBlaCar, a virtual community connecting people willing to share the costs of a road trip, is up and running in Brazil, the company said Monday. The Brazil launch marks the debut of the service in Latin America. BlaBlaCar said that Brazil offers a great potential for car-sharing as a result of high tolls, recent increases in gasoline prices and the extensive use of the Internet and social networks. The Sao Paulo office is the 13th for the French start-up, which has 20 million users in a score of countries. BlaBlaCar said the Brazilian rollout is its first new initiative since raising $200 million in a funding round in September and follows launches earlier this year in India and Mexico and the acquisitions of Germany's Carpooling and Hungary's Autohop.
BlaBlaCar , the world's largest long-distance car-sharing service with 50 million members, the roads daily announced it is launching in Mexico . Having already launched services in Mexico in April and raised $ 200 m in new investment in April , some 20 million said it saw great potential in Brazil , where 50 million cars hit the roads daily . " Brazil has immense potential for long-distance car-sharing," BlaBlaCar said in a statement. "The cost of car travel is excessively high for the majority of Brazilians . The country's tolls are the highest in the world while Brazilians must face a recent hike in the price of fuel."