Delimobil Flees Russian Regions, Dumping Gear and Evacuating Cars

Commercial procurement platform Bidzaar listed liquidation sales for car service station gear owned by carsharing giant Delimobil across five major hubs: Kazan, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, and Sochi.

The operator is offloading repair lifts, diagnostic tools, office furniture, and IT equipment, some of which had been bolted to garage floors for barely a year or two. While clearing out workshop inventory, the company chartered transport carriers to evacuate 1,710 vehicles out of 12 regional cities straight back to Mytishchi in the Moscow suburbs.

This logistical retreat strips massive chunks of regional transport fleets. In Novosibirsk alone, 252 cars are getting loaded onto flatbeds, wiping out up to a third of the local supply, while 77 vehicles plucked from Naberezhnye Chelny likely represent every single branded car parked in that municipality.

Back in late 2024, chief executive Vincenzo Trani boasted about running 15 proprietary repair centers across 40,000 square meters, claiming in-house mechanics shaved maintenance costs by up to 50%. The ambitious corporate strategy to blanket every operating city with dedicated workshops soon shrank to 11 hubs by early 2026, before finally hitting the auction block.

Official quarterly metrics show active app users collapsed by 17% year-over-year to 554,000 people, accompanied by a 13% tumble in total trips. The overall car fleet dropped 9% down to 25,936 units, leaving bloated maintenance stations facing rising mechanic wages and astronomical replacement part costs for aging foreign sedans.

Stripping regional hubs down to the drywall while centralizing whatever intact sedans remain near the capital paints a grim picture of purchasing power outside Moscow. When keeping basic rental sedans operational in millionaire cities becomes an unsustainable luxury, corporate ambitions quickly get dismantled and sold off for spare parts.