Ecoloc’Car has been offering inhabitants of the Ile-de-France region a full range of electric vehicles, with or without driving licence, and aimed at a very wide target audience, since March 2010. Businesses or people can thus hire a clean vehicle for several hours or several months. The "Mouv’in Paris" service also allows visitors to Paris to drive around without polluting the capital. The cars are fitted with iPhones that are programmed with around twenty tourist routes. The cars all have a 150-km (93-mile) range and can reach up to 80 km/h (almost 50 mph).
Thanks to the Ecoloc’Car service, users no longer pollute as they drive around the Ile-de-France region, and see themselves rewarded with not insignificant advantages: free vehicle charge in the 120-odd terminals in the region and free parking in Paris.
Self-service by 2011
Autolib', the Parisian self-service electric car hire network, will only be available from September 2011. In the meantime, the four consortia selected by the Autolib' local authority co-operative will submit their final proposals in the month of June. The one chosen to undertake this enormous project will be designated in autumn. The challenge faced by the Bolloré group, rental company ADA, VTLib' (Veolia Transport) and the group made up of Avis, the SNCF, the RATP and Vinci, is to find an economically viable solution. Additionally, many unknown quantities remain: the problem of vandalism, that of getting cars back to the stations, that of the actual choice of model … The only certainty at the moment: the €70m subsidy granted for the implementation of the stations and the battery charging.
A small life-sized test before the Parisian launch: Nice will in fact be launching the first self-service electric car system in France, a few months before Paris. Around fifty cars should be on the roads of the Côte d'Azur in early 2011.
Reservations will be made by telephone or online, before collecting the vehicle in one of the 17 stations that will initially be installed in the communes of Nice, Cagnes-sur-mer and Saint-Laurent-du-Var. Eventually, 200 electric vehicles and 70 electric charging stations will be made available to the public.
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