New car sharing club to ‘massively’ boost mobility in UK

A brand-new car club has launched in the UK, providing flexible, no-strings-attached mobility for businesses and individuals.

The Yourparkingspace.co.uk car club has initially launched with a pilot at five locations but the goal is to roll the scheme out across the UK over the next yea

The scheme enables drivers to access a vehicle from just £3 per hour without being tied to ownership – allowing businesses to offer cars on an ad-hoc basis. Daily rates stand at £29 or £144 per week.

It’s the result of a tie-up between peer-to-peer car rental firm Hiyacar and Yourparkingspace.co.uk; an online parking marketplace for parking spaces, driveways and garages for rent in the UK.

The car club has initially launched with a pilot at five locations but the goal is to roll the scheme out across the UK over the next year – the Yourparkingspace.co.uk website has a network of 65,000 parking spaces which have the potential to host cars.

Harrison Woods, CEO of YourParkingSpace.co.uk, said: “This is a brand-new venture for YourParkingSpace.co.uk and by working closely with Hiyacar it has the potential to massively grow car sharing in the UK.

“The benefits for customers, both individuals and businesses, is that it’s incredibly quick to sign up to the car club and then cars can be booked from only £3 per hour.

“Furthermore, cars can be booked for just one hour or however long the customer wants, with no strings attached that would come with traditional car ownership.

“And we’ve already found that having a car on their doorstep is very helpful for our private space owners who typically don’t own a car, while our commercial clients often want to be able to offer hire cars to their guests and customers.”

Graeme Risby, CEO of Hiyacar, added: “Our purpose at Hiyacar is to connect drivers to a car, when and where they want one.  Our partnership with YourParkingSpace enables us to achieve this across more locations within the UK whilst offering a greater choice of cars to rent for our members.”

YourParkingSpace.co.uk car club members can make bookings at www.hiyacar.co.uk and current locations include the Holiday Inn Express Bicester, Republic London, Tesco Brixton, The Mall Maidstone and Premier Inn London Hampstead.

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Natalie Middleton

Natalie has worked as a fleet journalist for over 20 years, previously as assistant editor on the former Company Car magazine before joining Fleet World in 2006. Prior to this, she worked on a range of B2B titles, including Insurance Age and Insurance Day.