citkar wins new partner with excellence

Will soon also be driving through Berlin for Mail Boxes Etc.: The Loadster from citkar.

The Berlin-based e-mobility start-up citkar was not only awarded the German Excellence Prize 2019, but has also gained an important new partner in the logistics sector with Mail Boxes Etc.

Berlin, January 25, 2019 – Mail Boxes Etc. is the world’s largest corporate franchise network for outsourcing solutions in the areas of shipping logistics, graphics & printing and micro-logistics. Mail Boxes Etc. in Berlin-Adlershof – Germany’s largest science and technology park as well as Berlin’s most important media location – cooperates with citkar from the end of January. During a test phase lasting several weeks, the company is using the e-cargo bike Loadster developed by citkar in southeast Berlin.

Mail Boxes Etc. Berlin-Adlershof is also significantly involved in the development of an innovative concept for city logistics. It is planned to set up an independent and neutral micro-depot and to deliver packages on the so-called last mile. The daily use of emission-free e-cargo bikes such as the Loadster is intended for this. That would help to reduce traffic congestion considerably.

Thanks to the transport box with a capacity of 500 l and a load capacity of 100 kg, the standard battery range of 100 km and the innovative canopy as weather protection, the e-cargo bike offers the logistician the desired application options. It was particularly important to Mail Boxes Etc. that the Loadster, due to its design, can be used on all bike paths without a license and can stop right at the customer’s door. “We attach great importance to being the link between companies and their customers quickly, efficiently, flexibly and environmentally friendly. Urban traffic in Berlin in particular is often a difficult to calculate challenge for which the Loadster can be a sustainable solution,” says Theo Heckes, Managing Director of Mail Boxes Etc. Berlin-Adlershof.

Excellence – Made by citkar

citkar was also able to convince the jurors of the German Excellence Award and was named the winner in the category “Products & Further Developments” 2019. At the award ceremony last Thursday in Frankfurt am Main, it was said that diesel driving bans and similar restrictions would be difficult to convince citizens. Rather, that is only possible with innovation and the Loadster is one of them. “You have been honored for this, congratulations!”

For the third time, the German Excellence Award honors outstanding achievements from a wide variety of industries and disciplines in the German economy in the B2B area.

The citkar founder, Jonas Kremer, is motivated: “Real change requires innovative solutions that know how to convince. We are therefore very much looking forward to the intensive exchange with Mail Boxes Etc. The recognition by the jury of the German Excellence Award motivates once again to stick with it and actively shape the change.” The innovative Berlin start-up has already been among the winners of the 2017 start-up live competition, the start2grow start-up competition and the renowned German Design Award 2019. The German Excellence Award is now continuing the success story.