Car sharing pilot project: Bayrischzell offers e-cars for hire
Created: 04/21/2022, 11:00 am
Handing over the keys for the e-car: (from left) Harald Gmeiner with Peter Wichert (Urban Mobility Innovations), Stephanie Hintermayr and Mayor Georg Kittenrainer.
© Thomas Plettenberg
The municipality of Bayrischzell offers e-cars for hire - to make it easier for tourists to travel by public transport.
Locals should also benefit.
Bayrischzell – Making tourism ecologically clean is one of the challenges that communities like Bayrischzell have to face.
One answer could lie in the car-sharing offer that the community has recently started.
The two new rental vehicles are electrically operated.
They should be used by vacationers to enable them to travel in an environmentally friendly way, says Stephanie Hintermayr, head of the Bayrischzell Tourist Info.
"People can travel by train if they are sure that they are mobile on site.".
Three euros for the start - then 29 cents per kilometer
It's easy to use: you register with the car-sharing provider OMU, load their app on your mobile phone, and you can start your journey.
A one-time fee of three euros is required to use the vehicle, plus an additional 29 cents per kilometer driven.
The cars can be borrowed at the train station in Bayrischzell, where they also have to be returned.
However, according to Hintermayr, car sharing should not only be attractive for holidaymakers.
Locals should also benefit.
The rental cars are intended to help reduce the number of second vehicles.
Many households have several vehicles, especially in rural areas.
"Anyone who only has to drive to the weekly market in Miesbach once a week could save the cost of their own second car," explains Hintermayr.
Bayrischzell does not incur any costs
The electric cars in Bayrischzell are part of a research project funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
According to its own statements, this aims to develop algorithms "to enable proactive positioning and optimization of the state of charge of e-vehicles in sharing mode for tourists".
The main concern is therefore to collect data, the e-cars are part of a "real laboratory", as can be seen on the project homepage.
The project is being managed by the data company Urban Mobility Innovations (Munich), other partners are Continental (Hanover) and Stadtwerke Bamberg.
Harald Gmeiner from Alpenregion Tegernsee Schliersee (ATS) arranged the contact to the project.
According to Gmeiner, the model project is to be tested across the district, and further stations are planned for Fischbachau and Schliersee.
The project will be financed by the Free State until 2023, and Bayrischzell will not incur any costs as a result, Hintermayr explains.
What happens after that depends on how it is used, she adds: "We hope that it will then be privately financed".
Andreas Wolkenstein
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