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Electric Car2go Carsharing Service - Click above for high-res image gallery
Using 300 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicles, Daimler's Car2go carsharing program will expand to San Diego, CA this fall. The program - using standard, gasoline-powered Fortwos - already exists in Austin, TX and Vancouver, BC and in some European cities (Amsterdam, for example, will be getting the Fortwo ED Car2go experience before the end of the year). As you might already know, the basic gist of Car2go is that the Fortwos are parked in an urban area and program members can hop in any available vehicle and pay a per-minute fee (in Austin, it's 35 cents) to go anywhere within the predetermined "geofence." Once at his or her destination, the driver simply locks the car up and walks away. It's the K.I.S.S. way to car share.
The all-electric Fortwos that will be used in San Diego have "high-efficiency lithium-ion batteries" that can go around 84 miles before needing a charge. And, given the use pattern for car sharing - Daimler says that "the daily stretch covered by car2go drivers in urban areas rarely exceeds 6 miles" - and the fact that fast charging can get the packs from 20 percent to 80 percent full in three-and-a-half hours, it'll be interesting to see how often these cars are actually recharged. Car2go's partner in San Diego is ECOtality, which will install around 1,000 Blink chargers throughout the city by the end of the year. We'll have more from San Diego soon. Until then, you can read this detailed post on how Car2go works in Austin.
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