tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post4488226131527689612..comments2024-03-17T08:16:42.227+01:00Comments on World Streets: The Politics of Transport in Cities: Autolib' – Paris bets big on new carshare technologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-16789223342169917792011-01-03T07:28:54.000+01:002011-01-03T07:28:54.000+01:00[...] World Streets you will find a machine transl...[...] World Streets you will find a machine translation of an article prepared by Sylvain Marty, director of the much-awaited Autolib’ program at the City of [...]Annals of Motordom – 19 « Price Tagshttp://pricetags.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/annals-of-motordom-19/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-81954871443554213812010-12-20T20:11:58.000+01:002010-12-20T20:11:58.000+01:00I am happy about this but would be excited if: 1 -...I am happy about this but would be excited if: 1 - The vehicles ran on renewable energy (i.e. only sustainable power was purchased for the charging station use -- as it is this is the largest nuclear fleet outside of the U.S. Navy); 2 - There was no exaggeration about the noise benefits (in a sense this both low, as tyre noise is significant at higher speeds, and high, as slowly moving, very Todd Edelmanhttp://www.greenidea.eunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-59475844078134127242010-12-24T00:53:59.000+01:002010-12-24T00:53:59.000+01:00Paris is indeed betting big on Autolib. Much bigg...Paris is indeed betting big on Autolib. Much bigger than Velib for 3 reasons: <br>- Politically - because the system is not going to be indirectly subsidized by advertising; <br>- Operationally - because they are bringing on line a lot of new technology quite rapidly and <br>- Policy - because it's not clear (to me at least) that cars, even electric cars, will have some transformative Dave Brookhttp://www.carsharing.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-20048501895634881382010-12-30T15:24:30.000+01:002010-12-30T15:24:30.000+01:00There was a debate on french tv yesterday evening ...There was a debate on french tv yesterday evening that you can watch (in french)<br>http://www.france5.fr/c-dans-l-air/index-fr.php?page=resume&id_rubrique=1609<br><br>A keypoint of the success of such a system is the reliability for the customer, will he be sure to have a car when he really needs it ? (I've heard it was one reason of stopping diracc in singapore). A carsharing user has schmider jbhttp://www.franceautopartage.comnoreply@blogger.com