Cities 101: Less cars, more life (Part V)

GoCar’s driving vision is to create sustainable cities by transforming urban mobility. Cities 101, a series by Yan Teh, contextualises this vision within wider urban perspectives. Part V explains why we need to leave behind private vehicle ownership and reclaim the city for people. In submitting to the reign of privately owned cars, we forfeit …

Cities 101: The hidden cost of car-centric cities (Part IV)

GoCar’s driving vision is to create sustainable cities by transforming urban mobility. Cities 101, a series by Yan Teh, contextualises this vision within wider urban perspectives. Part IV exposes how much we give up by prioritising private car ownership over people. Car-sharing offers a host of advantages over private vehicle ownership. As pointed out in …

Cities 101: The new players in city-making (Part III)

GoCar’s driving vision is to create sustainable cities by transforming urban mobility. Cities 101, a series by Yan Teh, contextualises this vision within wider urban perspectives. Part III introduces the new players on the city-making scene: businesses, brands, and you. Change is inevitable. Empires rise and fall. Society evolves, technology advances, and even in the …

Chasing the Milky Way with Jalan Susu

"Holding onto the side of a spaceship that’s moving around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, I could truly see the astonishing beauty of our planet, the infinite textures and colours. On the other side of me, the black velvet bucket of space, brimming with stars. It’s vast and overwhelming, this visual immersion, and …

Cities 101: Who makes a city? (Part II)

GoCar’s driving vision is to create sustainable cities by transforming urban mobility. Cities 101, a series by Yan Teh, contextualises this vision within wider urban perspectives. Part II looks at the people who shape our cities for a living. Cities are critically important, as established in Part I. We must pay attention to cities, and …

Travel Smarter with MoneyMatch

Tired of long queues at the money changer? Cut short that wild goose chase for the best rate with our friends at award-winning Malaysian startup MoneyMatch! Just as GoCar Malaysia provides car bookings on-demand, the MoneyMatch Exchange app puts currency exchange services in the palm of your hand. MoneyMatch boasts low handling fees and competitive …

Cities 101: Why cities matter (Part I)

GoCar’s driving vision is to create sustainable cities by transforming urban mobility. Cities 101, a series by Yan Teh, seeks to contextualise this vision within wider local and global urban perspectives. Part I makes the case that cities deserve our rapt and urgent attention. In February 2018, 23,000 people from every corner of the Earth …