‘Work in progress for car sharing providers’
Will car ownership soon become less self-evident and will we massively switch to shared cars and other forms of mobility? If it is up to providers of shared cars, that will of course be the case. Yet we do not all seem ready to ban our own car.
About 40 percent of Dutch car owners do not want to give up their own car, according to research carried out by the shared car provider Greenwheels. Four out of ten surveyed Dutch people with a car indicate that they only want to get rid of their own car if they are no longer able or allowed to drive themselves. In addition, about 15 percent of car owners indicate that they would possibly get rid of the car if there were better public transport facilities.
The research results are on the one hand not very surprising, but on the other hand somewhat remarkable. Last year, the Dutch CEO of Siemens Mobility expressed the expectation that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries in the world where the private car will disappear.
Greenwheels’ research also shows where we prefer to park our car. One in three car owners indicate that they prefer to park their car in front of the door or on their own property. About 20 percent indicate that it is also fine to have to walk 500 meters to the car. More than half of the respondents with a parking permit indicate that they do not want to give it up. Greenwheels concludes in a sense that the Dutch are not yet fully convinced of the shared car. “There is still work to be done to inform more Dutch people about the convenience and benefits of shared cars, both for people and the environment,” said Andrew Berkhout, director of Greenwheels, in an accompanying letter.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl