You Don't Need to Own a Car (If You Don't Drive to Work)

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/not-j....ust-bikes-you-don-t-

For about the last twenty years, my wife and I have had a pretty simple rule: if we don't need to drive to work, we don't need to own a car. We applied this even in car-centric places by taking advantage of carshare services.

People don't seem to understand just how easy modern carshare services have become, which is too bad, as they would benefit almost everyone.

Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes

Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes
One-time donations: https://notjustbikes.com/donate

NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel):
https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvW

---
CarShare service shown in this video:
Enterprise CarShare (Toronto)
https://enterprisecarshare.ca
Fetch CarShare (Amsterdam)
https://fetcarsharing.nl
Sixt CarShare (Amsterdam)
https://www.sixt.com/share
GreenWheels (Amsterdam)
https://www.greenwheels.nl/
ConnectCar (Amsterdam)
https://connectcar.nl/
ShareNow (Amsterdam)
Share-Now.nl
MyWheels (Amsterdam)
https://mywheels.nl/

---
References and Image Credits

Witkar launch video:
https://www.openbeelden.nl/med....ia/667632/Het_1ste_w
https://www.openbeelden.nl/med....ia/55749/Nieuwe_impu

Witkar [Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkar

You're Going to Love AutoShare [2011]
AutoShare [YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HIqha-5bvY

Global, national, and urban burdens of paediatric asthma incidence attributable to ambient NO2 pollution: estimates from global datasets
https://www.thelancet.com/arti....cle/S2542-5196(19)30

Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors

"Cars are parked 95% of the time". Let's check!
https://www.reinventingparking.....org/2013/02/cars-ar

Amsterdam CarShare services map from:
https://ritjeweg.nl/

---
Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:06 When we lived without a car
0:45 Carsharing is really easy
1:04 It's not like a rental car
1:48 A brief history, Witkar, and AutoShare
2:26 An intro to carsharing types
2:53 How fixed carshare works
3:43 Different types of vehicles
4:59 How free-floating carshare works
5:54 Pricing and how to compare to owning
6:28 Car breakdowns: owning vs. carshare
7:30 Longer trips and weekends
8:15 I don't like paying for a parked car
8:53 Carsharing options in Amsterdam
9:13 How to use a typical carshare program
10:44 Charging & driving electric cars
11:22 Benefits of free-floating carshare
11:39 Conclusion
12:18 Patreon shout-out
12:31 Outro

#carsharing #carclub #autoshare #autodelen