Green Benefits
This idea is bigger than all of us…
Imagine a world with one million fewer cars on the road. We do. Every day we are working towards a place with less dependence on personally-owned vehicles. Why? Because it matters. Fewer cars on the road means less congestion, less pollution, less dependence on oil, and cleaner, fresher air to breathe. Some folks don't believe it's possible for car sharing to have such a huge impact.
Here's a quick checklist of the facts so you can see for yourself.
Fewer cars. Way Fewer.
Each and every Zipcar takes at least 15 personally-owned vehicles off the road. Multiply that by the more than 9000 cars in our fleet and you've got a really big number.
Less and less driving.
After joining Zipcar, 90% of our members drove 5,500 miles or less per year. That adds up to more than 121 million litres of crude oil left in the ground—or 829 litres saved per member.
Green gets even greener.
10% of the population is expected to adopt car clubs as their primary mode of transportation. Break it down and you have millions of people saving billions of gallons of gas and oil. Factor in the savings and you've got an economic revolution.
A penny saved, a community revived.
Zipcar members save more than £450 (vs. car ownership). What would you do with an extra £450 a month? Many members put it back into their communities by buying local and sustainable products.