Ola Shared Pass does 20 mn rides in 6 mths, shared rides up 5-fold in a yr

Ola says the service has reduced 12 mn kg of carbon dioxide, saved over 7 mn litres of fuel

India's leading ride hailing company Ola has sold over 20 million rides through its Shared Pass subscription service in the past six months, hugely boosting its largest shared ride category.

The company says it witnessed a five-fold growth in the number of shared rides customers took in the past year, with the charge being led by metro cities Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

While the company does not break out numbers for shared and non-shared rides, analysts say ride-sharing is the largest category in India's cab hailing market. Both large players Uber and Ola offer shared rides at