Looking back at 2011, one the biggest areas of change has been sharing cars (sharing the ownership of cars rather than the equally important lift sharing). Cars represent a huge opportunity for sharing because of the number of very expensive assets which spend the vast proportion of their time unused. Shared ownership of cars [...]
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This video about car sharing was the winner of the Liftshare member video competition - enjoy! See yours2share for more information about car sharing, car shared ownership and lift sharing. Daimler (Mercedes Benz), a German car manufacturer is launching a liftsharing pilot in Ulm, Germany. In 2008, Daimler and Peugoet started a pilot carsharing scheme again in Germany, the first car manufacturer to offer a car share service. The new liftsharing operation called car2gether is the first time a car manufacturer has offered a ridesharing service. (Car share [...] Following up from an earlier blog post about RelayRides, there is an interesting article in the Economist today about peer to peer car sharing. As well as RelayRides in the US, there is another operator WhipCar operating a similar peer to peer car rental service. I’ll have to try it out. And I had to [...] Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...] Here is another great article from shareable.net (would you share a car with a stranger?) outlines some of the ground breaking car sharing schemes being tried out in the US (astonishing really, as prising the average American out of his SUV isn’t something most of us would attempt, let alone ask him to let someone [...] I’ve blogged before about shared ownership of cars and car clubs, but saw these articles on shareable.net: How to share a car, part 1 and How to share a car part 2. The articles are written by Janelle Orsi the author of a new book The Sharing Solution. The first part broadly covers car clubs, [...] When I started yours2share, I didn’t realise that I was starting a social enterprise, I just wanted to help people share stuff. As the number of private syndicates that were helped by yours2share increased, I also became aware that if as the number of partners in a private syndicates increases substantially, it becomes a [...] |
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