Car Sharing

Did you know…?

• Most cars are unused 97% of the time.

• The average car costs its owner £300-400 per month (including depreciation).

• Half of the carbon emissions from cars comes from making them.

Car club

• Allows you access to a car without the hassle and expense of owning one.

• Can make you money from your car.

• Works well in combination with other modes of transport, like walking, cycling, electric bikes, cargo bikes, taxis, and public transport.

• Is good for the environment and climate change.

  • Fewer cars on our streets.

  • People tend to use cars less.

• Helps you get to know your neighbours and build community.

How to join

1. Enterprise car club operates a car near the centre of Ilkley (enterprisecarclub.co.uk)

2. Share your car directly with neighbours through hiyacar.co.uk (a bit like Airbnb for cars)

We operate a ‘closed loop’ under Hiyacar. This means your car won’t be shown on the public site; only people who register through us will be able to see and hire cars that are available locally. 

Here’s how to do this:

1. If you want to share your car, register it with hiyacar.co.uk in the normal way.

2. If you want to hire your neighbours’ cars, register yourself with hiyacar.co.uk (NB: you have to do both steps 1 and 2 if you want to share and borrow cars.)

3. Email us (car-club@climateactionilkley.org.uk) letting us know the email address you registered with.

4. We contact Hiyacar to include you in the closed loop.

We currently have a single closed loop that covers all of Ilkley but as more people share their cars, we hope to split this loop into two, then three, and so on, until we have lots of very local loops!

Email us if you have any comments or questions: car-club@climateactionilkley.org.uk

Just to note that we took much of our inspiration from the wonderful work done in Oxford. Have a look at their website, which has much more information about why car clubs are so great.