The Share of cars in the city is becoming ever more popular. Nearly 2.5 million people in the past year were customers of one or more car-sharing providers – 350000 more than in the previous year. Overall, nationwide 20200 vehicles for a short or longer period of time could be rented. The offer was increased after two years without growth to 2018 2250 cars, announced the Federal Association Carsharing (BCG) in Berlin on Wednesday. The development shows that more and more traffic participants “responsibility to properly manage the resource,” said BCG managing Director Gunnar Neske. Especially positive is the fact that the station waxes based Carsharing in 740 cities and municipalities significantly, because 70 to 80 percent of the users were not to own a car.

Many of the free-floating users. a private car

This is the so-called free-floating car sharing, which serves 9000 vehicles and without fixed stations requires that different Here to be registered for the part of “car buffs” who wanted to make use of in addition to the Private Cars temporarily to another vehicle, said Neske. The majority of the customers (1.8 million) is registered in this Segment. The market leader in Car-2-Go (Daimler) and Drive-Now (BMW), which together alone in Berlin 500000 customers, will announce on Friday the Details of their merger. The new joint venture will have its headquarters in Berlin. Both of these providers are represented in seven major German cities.

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Christian hochfeld, Director of the policy Advisory Agora turning Traffic, appealed to the cities, Car-sharing-to place offers “more visible in the public space”. Also would have to change, with a view to the climate goals to 2030, the policy framework to facilitate sharing services, such Pooling – providers-the competition. High-field called for a “systematic Parking space management”, the expansion of environmental zones and the introduction of a Blue badge. Total registered in Germany 46.4 million passenger Cars. “In order for the car-sharing fleet shrinks to 0.04 per cent of the passenger Car population in Germany. “There’s a lot of air is still upwards,” said the Duisburg auto expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer.