“Exclusive: German government drafts law to support car sharing”

The government has put the finishing touches on draft legislation to support Germany’s booming car-sharing market, business daily Handelsblatt has learned. “The goal is to make it possible for the states to set up special parking places and free parking for car-share vehicles,” Transportation Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the business daily. To use reserved parking places, companies would have to show their vehicles comply with limits on CO₂ emissions, reports Handelsblatt. Germany’s car-sharing market has grown rapidly from 190,000 registered users in 2011 to more than a million by 2015, according to the report. Carmaker BMW offers car-sharing service DriveNow and rival Daimler car2go.

Read the report in English here.

For background, read CLEW’s dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.