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Hertz joins the car-sharing: In New York, London and Paris itself, in Germany as a partner of DB Carsharing

was in the U.S. media is so repeatedly in recent months, evidence that Hertz einsteigt into car sharing. Now the website is with the stations in Paris, London, New York and Park Ridge (Hertz headquarters in New York), commonly www.connectbyhertz.com accessible.

If one looks at the site, first surprised the cautious start. Three of the major world capitals with only 13-18 vehicles each. This is not much. We'll see if there is more is. At least that would be Hertz at the beginning of each much smaller competitor. But perhaps even come up to the launch at 16.12. many cars to do so.

The tariffs are also quite interesting. The fares are in each country a little differently. In the United States is like Zipcar km always free, but the time costs $ 10 from a European perspective with very high. Another feature of the U.S. tariffs in comparison to European: There are three tariffs: In addition to the standard rate of $ 50 fee per year, there are rates of $ 50 per month and even $ 125 a month (!). Monthly premiums of this magnitude are a novelty for car sharing.

the rates in England and France are similar to German. Every time there is an annual fee (UK £ 50, F 120 €), the hourly prices are higher at 4-6 € and £ than the normal car-sharing rates, but about the same level of Sistine and DB-sharing business. In general, when the Hertz car sharing in Europe, the first 30 km each way free, after that they cost 35 euro cents in France and 25p in the UK.

The Hertz offer is that no price-breaker, because the high time costs associated with a significant monthly price. Irritating the very high prices have km from 31 km in Europe. This is very untypical for car rental and is way above what has proven successful in car sharing.

Maybe the price level is the reason why Hertz in Germany in recent months does not occur with its own offer, but as a partner of DB-sharing business. It is noteworthy that these Hertz DB Carsharing stations currently mainly Stuttgart and Cologne are located, in which even starts the Flink Ster-offer, although precisely Flink Most customers can not access the wide fleet of normal DB-car-sharing offer can should.

The Hertz DB Carsharing Co-operation from the German perspective has another aspect: cambio and Green Wheels put yes on active cooperation with Hertz. Whether this was against this background will have to be shown in future.

short, with Hertz, another player moves in the global car-sharing. For Germany is the first in a change at the margin, you should follow but already attention.