BlaBlaCar has announced a mass expansion of its carpooling service into 20 new countries worldwide.
This will double the French platform’s footprint to 41 nations across Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and now Africa for the first time.
The move marks BlaBlaCar’s first major international expansion in a decade with rising fuel costs cited as the primary driver behind the scaling.
“20 years ago, we started BlaBlaCar with a clear ambition: to make everywhere possible for everyone,” Co-Founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson said on social media.
“Fom day one, my conviction has been that to survive and truly scale a consumer marketplace, you have to go global early on – a controversial one back in the days.”
Brusson added that, today, fuel prices are “squeezing household budgets worldwide” with transit infrastructure in many regions that “hasn’t kept pace” with demand.
“Carpooling is a direct answer to both.”
BlaBlaCar matches drivers who have empty seats with passengers headed the same way. The aim is to enable riders to share the cost of the trip.
The concept has taken off in Europe. In France, BlaBlaCar transports 40,000 commuting passengers per day according to 2025 data. That success, however, didn’t cross the pond to Britain. In an interview with Zag Daily last year, Brusson admitted that the UK was “the most staggering fail” for the company.
Where is BlaBlaCar headed next?
The international rollout sees BlaBlaCar scale across four major geographical regions.
In Latin America, the service will enter Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
The entry builds on a strong presence BlaBlaCar already has in Brazil and Mexico. In Brazil, where the service has operated for a decade, more than 25 million passengers used the platform in 2025. Meanwhile in Mexico, more than six million passengers used the service last year.
In Southeast Asia, BlaBlaCar currently operates in India where a 47% year-on-year growth was recorded in 2025, making it the company’s largest market with 19 million passengers. BlaBlaCar now brings its service to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.
BlaBlaCar’s European expansion spans Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia and Moldova. And with Morocco, the platform enters the African continent for the first time.
“Our model works because it solves an economic reality for the consumer,” added Brusson.
“Last year alone, our drivers saved over €568 million in travel expenses. As we scale into 20 new markets, we are unlocking considerable and untapped purchasing power for millions of travellers and commuters.”
An expansion of this scale today is rare for an industry that has historically been burnt by rapid growth. Brusson admitted that a decade ago, expanding into 20 countries simultaneously would have been an “operational nightmare”.
He said that, today, AI has “changed the game”, enabling the company to manage localisation across new languages, adapt marketing assets to each market and build “trusted” communities across new cultures.
