The all-electric automobile sharing Car2go fleet began with a bang in 2011. The state of mind was favorably bright, with then-CEO of Car2go North America Nick Cole informing that these little, short-term rental EVs were, “a reasonable option to standard vehicle ownership.” Regardless of the fast approval of the zero-emission runabouts by countless regional users, things have actually turned sour.
After upgrading the fleet to more recent EVs in 2015 as well as supplying incentives to users to charge up when they were done driving, Car2go has actually revealed it will eliminate all the electrical Smart Fortwos and change them with gas-powered automobiles. Car2go is putting part of the blame on the Department of Energy, which had a strategy to set up 1,000 charging stations in San Diego by the end of 2011. There are just 400 set up around the city today, and just 126 are inside the Car2go Home Area. That’s why, “we have all been entrusted insufficient EV charging facilities in San Diego that makes it really challenging to preserve an EV fleet,” Car2go states in an e-mail. For the remaining of the year, Car2go San Diego is dropping its rates to simply 19 cents a minute (the typical cost is 41 cents).
San Diego city councilman Todd Gloria informed The San Diego Union-Tribune that, the statement is “a lesson to everybody that we need to work more difficult to construct the facilities needed to support electrical cars and other transport modes”.
