The service has undergone successful testing in Stuttgart, and has started in Berlin.
Drivers of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and the V-Class of model year 2015 and newer – can use the Mercedes me connect service to have parcels or purchases delivered directly to their parked vehicle.
It makes no difference whether the car is privately owned, leased or a company car. Orders can be placed with any online shop worldwide.
Prerequisites for using chark is the Mercedes me connect ability in vehicles as of model year 2015 and the chark app which is available free of charge from the App Store (iOS).
chark works very simply: the user temporarily gives the digital vehicle key of the parked car to a service provider he/she has previously booked.
The vehicle can only be unlocked and locked once, and cannot be moved.
If a customer wishes to have an online purchase delivered directly to the boot of the car, he or she enters the address of the chark hub as the delivery address when ordering, and his or her personal chark ID as an address supplement.
The user can decide the time window and parking location in which the service provider is permitted to open the vehicle.
As soon as the delivery service is within a range of 500 metres of the indicated parking location, it is able to locate the vehicle by GPS and unlock it once.
