CarSharing Isn't Quite Ready for Electric Cars... Yet: #evworld

CarSharing Isn't Quite Ready for Electric Cars... Yet: City CarShare, a popular nonprofit carsharing service in

City CarShare, a popular nonprofit carsharing service in the Bay Area, has taken the plunge with both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). But CEO Rick Hutchinson told us at the recent Meeting of the Minds conference that the organization isn’t offering EVs for use because they’re cost-effective; they’re offering them to increase awareness--something City CarShare can do because it’s a nonprofit. So why don’t EVs make sense for all carsharing services? City CarShare has a long history of offering EVs--the service’s first electric cars became available in 2003 (City CarShare was founded in 2001), when it conducted a pilot study of six vehicles. It didn’t pan out, obviously; modern EV technology was in its infancy then.

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