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CAR-SHARING AS A CONCEPT

Car-sharing is a form of vehicle leasing. It offers users an opportunity to share one or more vehicles without actually owning them. Users may reserve an “à la cart” vehicle for their use.

CAR-SHARING: PEOPLE HAVE HEARD OF IT BUT DON’T USE IT ENOUGH!

Car-sharing is widely known as a concept but is still underused, for various reasons:

• Lack of information: many people are familiar with the concept but not with how it actually works in practice. Car-sharing is often confused with, and overshadowed by car-pooling.
• Accessibility: those who live in the suburbs or rural areas may find it hard to combine car-sharing and other modes of travel into a single trip.
• Local culture: in Luxembourg, people love their private cars; they are uncomfortable with car-sharing and prefer to get about with their own vehicle.

SO, WHAT’S THE POINT OF CAR SHARING?

“In Luxembourg, there would be no point in wanting to completely ban private cars, but we want to make car-sharing more attractive than car ownership for those driving less than 20,000 kilometres annually”, said Sam Tanson, Minister of Culture and Lodging.

Car-sharing’s value is in making cars available to people only when they need one. In fact, almost 95% of the time most vehicles sit unused at home or work. This works out to 22 hours per day.

Car-sharing also helps reduce traffic, emissions and crowding in urban carparks. One shared car can replace an estimated nine individual cars. Combining car-sharing with public transport is also an environmentally responsible act. Over the long term, this can save you time and money, especially as public transport will be free of charge by March 2020.

Financially speaking, car-sharing happens to be more economical, as leasing saves you the initial investment for a vehicle.Moreover, car sharing optimises mobility costs and offers many advantages, such as lower parking costs, optimised use of the pool vehicle, less need to find a parking space, and the possibility of rebilling private use and other management costs. Fuel savings can also be achieved with electric cars, which are more suited to low-mileage use.

Moovee has been our corporate car-sharing partner since 2018. This partnership has led to the emergence of a new multimodal service offering a turnkey solution, including car-sharing, bike-sharing, scooter-sharing and car-pooling. Thanks to the app developed by Moovee, users are a few smartphone clicks away from accessing any of these.

To find out more, go to our website : www.aldautomotive.lu/car-sharing