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If you drive less than 6,000 miles per year then a car club will be likely to save you between £1000 and £1500 a year. Replacing a second family car with car club membership is likely to bring even more cash savings.
Most people do not think about the true costs of running a car, which once you include the finance cost, depreciation, tax, MOT, petrol, servicing, repairs, and parking can add up to an average of over a hundred pounds a week.
Some real examples of car running costs:
£5791 to run a Peugeot 407 doing 12,000 miles per year
or £3407 for a Vauxhall Corsa doing 12,000 miles per year
Source: RAC cost of motoring report 2005
Cost of car clubs
Car clubs give you greater flexibility charging only for the time you use the car not when it is sitting on the drive. Car clubs allow you to free up the travel budget to use on trains and buses or taxis when that is the more convenient way to travel.
The Carplus leaflet 'Add up your car costs' can be used to calculate the true cost of car ownership, (order paper copy).
This has been incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet 'Add up your travel costs' which allows you to compare your travel costs before and after joining a car club.
Use the cost calculator at www.carclubs.org.uk
Car Club costs
| Car club | WhizzGo | City Car Club | Streetcar | Zipcar |
| Membership fee | £49.50 per year | £75 one-off registration fee | £49.50 per year | from £25 per year |
| Returnable deposit to cover any insurance excess incurred | none | none | none | none |
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| Hourly rate | from £4.95 | from £4.75 | from £3.95 | from £4.21 |
| Mileage rate, including fuel | first 30 miles free, then 20p per mile (depending on Package) | first 50 miles free, then 20p per mile (depending on Package) | first 30 miles free, then 23p per mile | first 60 miles free, then 23p per mile (depending on Package) |
| Daily rate (per 24 hour period) | from £35 | from £47.50 | from £39.50 | from £38.25 |
| Weekend rate | from £35 (per 24 hour period) | from £71.25 | from £39.50 (per 24 hour period) | from £93.50 |
| Additional benefits | Discounts from partner organisations, and London cars exempt from Congestion Charge. | Special offers for members from selected organisations. | - | Membership covers London Congestion Charge |
Rates may vary depending on the car club, location and the size of the car.
Businesses can reduce the cost of owning, running and administering company pool cars by joining a
car club as a corporate member. Employees can then book the cars as
and when they need them for work trips. This has been proved to have the
knock-on effect of discouraging car commuting – staff no longer have to drive
to work as they can use car club vehicles during the day.
Other advantages include freeing up parking space or locating in more prestigious city
centre offices with less parking.
See the Carplus Car Clubs at Work guide for more details.
Cars affect how we live and run our economy in a
whole host of ways. Significant economic benefits can be made from having fewer,
more efficiently run, shared vehicles on the road.
Delays from congestion make business less efficient.
The cost of road accidents puts extra burdens on the tax payer.
The need to supply sufficient parking hinders city regeneration as ever increasing parking spaces are required.
Increases in insurance premiums can be attributed to global warming
Pollution clean up costs have to be met by business and government.
Accidents
lead to social costs of £2 billion per year, and greenhouse gas emissions, air
pollution, noise and infrastructure cost a further £2 billion.
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