“Carsharing companies call for own parking sites”

Providers of carsharing services in Germany have called for new legislation that would grant them their own parking sites in crowded inner cities, Max Hägler writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Companies operated by carmakers like Car2go (Daimler), DriveNow (BMW) or Multicity (Citroen) claim limited parking space is a major obstacle for their growth and, therefore, to the contribution they can make to cut emissions in German cities, Hägler writes. “We quickly need a law, still in this legislative period, which gives cities more leeway” to assign parking areas to shared cars, Thomas Beermann, from Car2go, told Süddeutsche Zeitung. The positive contribution of carsharing to cutting emissions is still being debated but many city dwellers embraced them as an alternative to owning a car, Hägler writes.

Read the article in German here.

For more information on the shift of the German automotive industry to decarbonised vehicles read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.