Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sharing car ownership, organized ride systems

[Kevin Wolf (kwolf]

Rob
Eight of us at N Street bought a Honda Insight 2 
seater hybrid.  We have a website to make 
reservations - 
http://www.strategicoptions.org/carshare.  5 of 
us have our own cars and provide them for back 
up. So if someone has checked out the hybrid for 
a short trip and one can use it for a long trip, 
they trade and the longer trips have the 
priority.  Use of your own car by the car coop 
reduces your bill to the coop accordingly.  We 
handle insurance by having one of the members be 
the "owner" and pay the insurance.   We had a 
member get in an accident. The insurance company 
paid the for the accident. The "owner" didn't 
want to risk having another accident by a 
non-"owner" of the car so he "sold" it to another 
member.    We bill on a per hour and per mile 
basis.  There are also opportunity times so that 
if the car isn't reserved, one can just use it 
and only pay the per mile and not the per hour 
expense.

Kevin

>  I would be interested to hear about cohousing groups which have people that
> share ownership of cars and/or systems that groups have developed to share
> rides.
>
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Sharingwood Community, Snohomish County, WA
> Naturalist, Writer
> The Environmental Science School
> http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
> > <((((º>`·..·`·..·`·...><((((º>...·`·..·`·...><((((º>.·`·..·`·...><((((º>.·`
> ·..·`·...><((((º>·.. ><((((º>
> ·`·..·`·...·..·`><((((º>.·`·..·`·...><((((º>.·`·..·`·...><((((º>..·`·..·`·..
> .><((((º>·.. ·`·..·`·....·`·..·`·...><((((º>
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.0/420 - Release Date: 8/16/2006
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at:
> http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/