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Why car sharing with e-cars is currently an almost impossible task

2021-11-09T14:01:56.120Z


If you want a car, then car sharing, and preferably electric - this is what many climate protection experts recommend. In practice, however, the concept also fails due to an unworldly regulation.


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The car sharing provider Weshare has a fully electric fleet.

However, the vehicles are only available to customers in Berlin and Hamburg

Photo: Jürgen Ritter / IMAGO

The lack of charging options in Germany makes it difficult to expand car sharing offers with electric cars - this is criticized by the Federal Association of Carsharing.

A spokesman for the association said that vehicles were only allowed to stand at charging stations in public spaces while they were being charged up.

This is a "practically unsolvable logistical task" for customers and providers.

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The association therefore demands that the funding guidelines be revised.

The federal and state governments are obliged to support the municipalities in financing the charging points.

"What we don't need are large SUVs"

Environmental protection organizations have long called for the increased use of e-cars in the fleets of car sharing providers.

"From our point of view, sharing vehicles must above all be small, they must be economical and they should be electric," said Jens Hilgenberg from the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany.

"What we don't need are any large SUVs, and what we also don't need is the combustion engine for the foreseeable future."

In Germany, the proportion of e-cars in the vendors' fleets is very different, as a survey by the dpa news agency showed among companies.

The front runner is therefore the provider Weshare, which is part of the Volkswagen Group.

All 2300 vehicles are fully electric, the company said.

This offer is still only available in Berlin and Hamburg.

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Share Now - a car sharing company run by BMW and Daimler - has around 20 percent e-cars in its fleet of 5,650 vehicles.

Around a third of the cars in Sixt's car sharing fleet are electric.

The provider Cambio comes to six percent.

At Flinkster, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, around ten percent of the cars do not run or do not run exclusively on petrol or diesel.

The provider Miles did not provide a specific number on request.

Ford Carsharing came up with the lowest proportion of the companies asked: Only 0.3 percent of all vehicles are powered by an electric or hybrid motor.

Car sharing - which means "car parts" in German - means the option of renting cars for a short time, for example via an app.

The use of the vehicles is usually billed via a time or kilometer tariff, or a combination of both.

Investments are also being made in e-cars in the USA

The US car rental company Hertz recently announced that it would add 100,000 Tesla electric cars to its fleet.

According to its own information, Hertz wants to build "the largest electric vehicle fleet in North America and one of the largest in the world."

According to experts, Tesla's dense charging network was also an important reason for the cooperation.

vki / dpa

Source: spiegel

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