GoGet CarShare is a car sharing service operating in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The service was the first of its kind in Australia.[1][2] GoGet was launched as Newtown CarShare on 6 June 2003 with three vehicles and twelve founding members.[3] Following interest from the City of Darebin, the service was extended to Melbourne under the name "GoGet" in November 2004. With the growth of the service to other areas in Sydney, Newtown CarShare was renamed GoGet in May 2005.
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| Industry | Carsharing |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 2003 Newtown, New South Wales |
| Founder | Nic Lowe and Bruce Jeffreys and 10 other members |
| Headquarters | Sydney |
Area served | Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane |
Key people | Nic Lowe and Bruce Jeffreys |
| Services | Carsharing |
| Owner | CarShare Australia, Archer Capital |
| Website | http://www.goget.com.au/ |
GoGet members choose a rate plan and pay an annual or monthly fee. Fees cover fuel, insurance, maintenance, and cleaning. The vehicles are mostly late-model hatchbacks, but also include vans, utes and premium vehicles. Each vehicle has a home location, referred to as a "pod", either in a car park or on a street, typically in a highly populated urban neighbourhood. Members reserve a car by web or telephone and use a key card to access the vehicle.
In June 2014, GoGet had over 1300 vehicles Australia-wide.[4]
In October 2015, GoGet had over 65,000 members, which is estimated to take 100,000 cars off the road.[5]
References
edit- ^ Scott, Rebecca (6 April 2005). "Councils thinking small". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 9 November 2008.
- ^ "GREEN LIGHT FOR $6 CAR HIRE IN CITY". Messenger – The City. 29 March 2006.
GoGet provides cars for hire to people for between $4 and $6 an hour, ... People sign up to become GoGet members and pay a monthly fee of between $15 and ...
- ^ "Carsharing Revs Up". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 November 2004.
- ^ Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Su-Lin Tan: Property Developers ride the car sharing trend with GoGet Partnership Archived 30 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine in BRW 27 May 2014
- ^ Jeffreys, Bruce (29 October 2015). Trailblazers: Conversation with Bruce Jeffreys (Speech). UTS: Hatchery.
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