was announced this week that the smart fortwo electric drive in 2012 is produced in Hambach. On this occasion, the chairman of Daimler, Dieter Zetsche, announced that in early 2010 in Paris car2go start / can start. The "Sunday newspaper," said Zetsche: "We can do it there on its feet, with a few thousand vehicles in mid-2010, the concept could then be marketable internationally.. we extend it to other cities. "The first
sounds very promising and fits to the positive image that the project creates in Ulm. But both sentences with the" may "or" could "significantly qualifies. In terms of Paris, this is the challenge to participate in the planned tender , under which there will be 4000 electric-car sharing vehicles in Paris.
Six months after going public car2go can draw a first assessment. Central's success is the number of registered participants of 13,000. They are almost 20% of all license holders of Ulm. This is truly remarkable and shows the very strong interest in Ulm. Even the repeatedly published Number of trips of 500-1000 trips per day is remarkably high and was reached in May / June.
But the development over the months raises the first question: The number of participants multiplied, but the number of cars is still stable. In the fall, even expanded the service area, the number of vehicles still remains stable.
The publicly visible utilization of vehicles and publicly disclosed the number of trips over the months will not be felt. the average usage has halved after the first 6 months?
over the traffic and environmental impacts, there is no evidence, at least not positive. Whether one-way car sharing is an attractive addition to or rather a partial compensation for the environmental network, probably car2go and Daimler will not answer (do).
