Il Car sharing, that is the self-service car rental that you pay only for the time you use. This great innovation, born at the end of the 80s, has only taken hold a few years ago in Italy, which today has the primacy in Europe having 58 cars for every 100 inhabitants. And to say that this great phenomenon is widely used in Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Scandinavia, where it counts more than 100.000 associated people with 4.000 vehicles available, it takes a while to be recognized by us too.
This service of shared car offers very advantageous offers both to those who have a family allowing a subscription year with unlimited service of kilometers and time slot for a cost of € 110, plus the fee of € 30 for the membership card and a security deposit of € 150.
They can use them companies paying 180 € per year with the same costs and the same options as the family subscription. Finally the single or tourist who decides to resort to this splendid initiative can make a quarterly subscription of 30 € without other additional expenses. The car is booked through the internet, or call center and taken from the depot of your city. Everyone has their own car sharing scheme that they will use once the car is returned to be recognized as a member.
Il cost it is calculated on the basis of the kilometers traveled and the time slot. To give you an idea, if I take a small car, a smart or a peugeot 107, and use it from 7 to 22, the time slot will mark me € 2,10. From 22pm to 7am, on the other hand, € 1, more if I travel up to 100 km with my smart, the kilometer rate will mark me € 0,40.
I advantages? in addition to the reduction of emissions, the advantage of having less traffic and more free time, a short test will convince you of the enormous money saving of this service. On the car sharing site you can calculate the annual cost of your car and compare it with a car sharing subscription. Another big plus is that you can get into the limited traffic areas of each city and you can park for free in the blue lines. So what more do you want?
