Vehicle Subscription Firm Autonomy Teams Up With Equifax

Digital vehicle subscription service Autonomy has launched a partnership with Equifax to use the credit bureau’s InstaTouch identity and authentication tool, allowing customers to subscribe using their smartphones.

The collaboration, announced in a news release Friday (March 11), lets consumers subscribe in as fast as 10 minutes. It follows Autonomy’s launch in January, when it unveiled its Tesla Model 3 Vehicle subscription program in California.

“Consistent with our mission to deliver the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to get a Tesla Model 3, and to make access to electric vehicles easy and affordable, Equifax has enabled us to deliver on a 100% mobile and digital experience for consumers in 10 minutes,” said Scott Painter, CEO and founder of Autonomy.

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The company said it will soon expand geographically and offer subscriptions for other electric vehicles. Autonomy’s subscription model lets customers pay a monthly fee and start fee that covers the cost of the vehicle subscription, routine maintenance costs, roadside assistance and – eventually – auto insurance.

Equifax InstaTouch uses differentiated and alternative data sources to authenticate a consumer’s identity, allowing for pre-population of consumer data during the application.

With the Tesla partnership, Autonomy said it hopes to offer 10,000 of the electric vehicles by the end of the year.

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The Tesla subscription service starts at $550 a month, but people who pay that price also must pay a $5,500 “start fee,” higher than a deposit on a base Model 3 lease with Tesla.

In July, Tesla launched its subscription service for a self-driving car package, which adds a number of features for self-driving cars, including navigating on autopilot and auto-park.