Communauto

Communauto
Private
Industry Car rental
Founded 1994 (1994)
Headquarters Montreal, Québec, Canada
Area served
 Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau, Sherbrooke and Paris
Key people
 Benoît Robert (Chairman and CEO)
Services Car sharing
Number of employees
 Equivalent to 68 full-time
Website www.communauto.com

Communauto is a company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that operates a carsharing service in four cities in Quebec: Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau and Sherbrooke. The company has partnerships with VRTUCAR in Ottawa[1] and CarShare Atlantic in Halifax,[2][3] which allows customers to access cars in any city. Communauto also acquired Mobizen, Paris carsharing company, in 2012.[4] As of June, 2015 it had 40,000 users who shared a fleet of approximately 1,350 vehicles, station-based and free-floating. The users-per-vehicle ratio can rise in winter to 20 users per vehicle and drops to about 15 users per vehicle in summer.

History

VRTUCAR, the carsharing service operating in Ottawa and Kingston was acquired by Communauto.

Founded in Quebec City in 1994 by Benoît Robert, its current CEO. Cycling advocate and environmentalist Claire Morissette (1950–2007) played a major role in its evolution starting in 1995, when Communauto established itself in Montreal as a private company. The company goal is to provide a convenient and economical alternative to owning a car.

Impact

The impact of carsharing in Quebec was evaluated in a study from Communauto and conducted by Tecsult Inc. in 2006.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Good news: Communauto subscribers can now access the self-service vehicles of VRTUCAR in Ottawa!" (Press release). Communauto inc. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "CarShareHFX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH CARSHARING LEADER COMMUNAUTO FOR ITS SECOND ANNIVERSARY" (Press release). CNW Group Ltd. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "CarShareHFX becomes CarShare Atlantic and increases its fleet by 30%". May 3, 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Metro France – "Communauto, l’Autolib’ québécois" (FRENCH) Archived 2008-10-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "CO2 emissions reduced by 168 000 tons per year thanks to car-sharing" (Press release). Archived from the original on 22 June 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.

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