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12 Christmas Markets for the 12 Days of Christmas 🎄

Local communities getting together to drink mulled wine, eat Belgian chocolates and buy festive gifts, who doesn’t love a Christmas market?!

3 ways to get to know your neighbours

More than half of Britons describe their neighbours as “strangers” and 73% of Britons don’t even know their neighbour’s names. Yes we were shocked as well! In fact, we did a quick...

New 'owner hub' and new availability calendar

This is a very exciting release. We’re committed to offering the best possible tools for car owners, so cars can become real income generating assets. The combination of the new...

When Alessandra said hiya to Laura's Alfa Romeo

This week I caught up with Alessandra from our community team. A few months ago she tested out the Hiyacar platform herself when she hired out Laura’s Alfa Romeo.

When Car Owners Hiya Out Other Owners Cars

We believe that sharing cars keeps communities moving. Share your neighbour’s car so you can drive what you want, when you want. You save money. Your neighbour makes a few...

Top 5 Spooky Halloween Road Trips

Many of us get into Halloween mode as soon as it turns to autumn, so in the spirit of all things spooky, we thought we’d put together our list of...

Booking extensions made much easier

Up till now if as a driver you wanted to request and extension, you had to get in touch with the car owner to check whether they were OK to...

Hack Day — The Final Push

End of quarter is always a busy time for tech teams and indeed companies as a whole, as everyone pushes to get those last projects finished and those last quarterly...

5 Reasons Why Sharing Your Car with Hiyacar is Stress Free

You’ve got a car, great. You’re not using it as much as you used to and you’re after some extra cash from it whilst it’s lying idle when you’re WFH....

Uber vs. Car Rental

Uber has become a more and more popular transport option for Londoners since its launch in July 2012. It has replaced black cabs to a large extend, with over 3M...

Hackday: The Referrals Scheme

Monthly Hack Days are back in the tech team’s calendar and although we have a list of weird and wonderful hacking ideas we wanted to get Sarah, our CMO, involved...

New sign-up & on-boarding for Hiyacar drivers

We’ve released a brand new sign up and on-boarding user flow for our drivers, available for our iOS and Android apps. We’re trying to make the verification process as slick...