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-just-bikes-you-don-t-need-to-own-a-car-if-you-don-t-drive-to-work-carsharing 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/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- 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/media/667632/Het_1ste_witkar_station_geopend https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/55749/Nieuwe_impulsen_witkar 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/article/S2542-5196(19)30046-4/fulltext Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors "Cars are parked 95% of the time". Let's check! https://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/cars-are-parked-95-of-time-lets-check.html 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