City CarShare, I-GO’s nonprofit carshare counterpart in San Francisco and the East Bay, recently announced an ambitious “20,000 by 2020″ goal. Our Bay-area compatriots plan to take 20,000 more cars off the road by 2020. That stat sounds grand, but it’s based on research that every carshare vehicle replaces 15 owned vehicles, and carshare org members reduced their driving by half. Their announcement event was attended by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, and other city and state officials.
Of course, car sharing folks also save thousands on transportation costs, and City CarShare also aims to save its members an additional $1 billion over the cost of car ownership by the year 2020.
More exciting yet, our friends — with whom I-GO has a longstanding roaming agreement that lets our members skip the membership signup fees — plan to achieve a fleet mix of 50% electric-based or alternative-fuel vehicles by 2015.
We’re on the same page here: I-GO is making major progress on plans to deploy 36 electric vehicles with solar charging canopies across the Chicagoland area.
If you’re headed to San Francisco any time soon, we encourage you to get around town with our progressive carshare pals at City CarShare!
