Respiro Car Sharing offers an alternative to car ownership in cities by providing a car sharing service with vehicles available by the hour in neighborhoods. The company has experienced exponential growth since 2010. It aims to be carbon neutral through calculating and offsetting its greenhouse gas emissions via reforestation programs. The service seeks to reduce costs, cars, and emissions in cities through providing shared vehicles as a more sustainable form of urban mobility.
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1. RESPIRO CAR SHARING
IMAGINE A NEW TYPE OF CITY
WITH CARS BY THE HOUR IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Featured by:
E-mail: ian.paterson@respiromadrid.es, Tel.: +34 722 498 535
2. TARGET AUDIENCE PROBLEM:
CAR OWNERSHIP IS COSTLY
(5059/YEAR)
UNDERUSED: parked 97% of its life
POLLUTIVE: the motor of climate change
4. SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY NETWORK
+189 cars in 91 parkings
Free acces to restricted traffic zone
Secure parkings open 24/7/365
Partners with Universities
Partners with hotel chains
Corporate Car Sharing
Launching in more cities soon
5. VISION & MISSION
BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THIS WORLD
CARS ONCE REVOLUTIONISED CITIES,
NOW IT IS TIME TO REVOLUTIONISE CARS.
100 years ago the car made its revolutionary appearance in society.
Ever since cities have been designed around the needs of cars, giving top
priority to roads and parking spaces in downtown areas.
However, as urbanisation rates continue to rise, our ability to further adapt
our city centres is limited.
A respiro car
on every corner
of every block in town
7. C02 COMPENSATION
WITH
OUR COMMITMENT
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem
ACT CONSCIENCIOUSLY
Calculation of greenhouse gases for compensation:
Car manufacture
Fleet petrol consumption
Energy / electricity use (office)
Paper usage (office)
Water usage (office)
Use of plastics (office)
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
8,77 tC02 53 tC02 86 tC02 331 tC02 903 tC02
HOW?
Donation proportional to total yearly CO2 emissions
8. C02 COMPENSATION
WITH
In辿s de Saralegui receives the Green Mobility Prize
Town Hall of Madrid, 2010
Collaboration 2014: reforestation programme in Limay, Nicaragua.
Plan endorsed by VIVO PLAN (Auditor) and the NGO Taking Root,
endorsed by the UN
9. A PARADIGM SHIFT
LESS COSTS-CARS-EMISSIONS
Car Sharing is breaking the rules (disrupting)
traditional rent-a-car y and car sales business models
Source: Oliver Wyman study on urban mobility (2012)