What’s Car Sharing Doing to Auto Sales?


A lot, according to this Planetizen piece (linking to the original Wall Streetcar Journal article, which is behind a paywall).

One estimate is that 500,000 less cars have been sold in the last 7 years because of the availability of car sharing services.

How many parking spaces does that save?


One response to “What’s Car Sharing Doing to Auto Sales?”

  1. “How many parking spaces does that save?”
    Zero, in most places where parking minimums are set in stone by zoning regulations, no matter how many cars are actually used.
    But in the long term this needs to change.

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