http://gigaom.com/2011/10/21/the-economics-of-peer-to-peer-car-sharing/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/21/the-economics-of-peer-to-peer-car-sharing/#comment-790401 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:08:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=425195#comment-790401 Private carsharing now is also becoming more and more popular in Europe. Examples of this include WhipCar in Great Britain on http://www.whipcar.com/ and rent-n-roll in Germany on http://www.rent-n-roll.de/ .

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/21/the-economics-of-peer-to-peer-car-sharing/#comment-667275 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:59:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=425195#comment-667275 didn’t see any reference to the actual, real world cost of operations, ex. installation costs of in-car card swipe and tracking technology-on average $400/car. Not to mention back office operations etc. Who pays for this up front cost? Then typically, car owner and Peer-t-o peer company split the fees, Is this really sustainable? car rental, car share biz are a low margin business with car rental companies squeezing dimes out of literally hundreds of thousands of vehicles in their fleets (ex. Enterprise has 800 thousand cars). So, the long term prospects of splitting the revenues between company and private car owners is questionable.
Larry Shaeffer
co-founder PhillyCarShare

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