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New scheme will allow you to hire electric By Miranda Robertson A brilliant new pilot scheme will be launched on January 9 in Tisbury – where people can rent electric cars by the hour. Tisbury Electric Car Club has been funded by Power to Change Lottery funding, and its founders were expecting to launch in April this year. However lockdown struck and, if you’ll pardon the pun, Power to Change pulled the plug. Now they are hoping their second planned launch will go smoothly. Julie Phillips started working on the project a year ago, based on successful car clubs in bigger towns and cities. She canvassed 95 householders in Tisbury to
BRIGHT SPARKS: From left, project manager Catherine Allison, Margaret Paul and Alan Maryon Davis
see if they would use such a scheme, where people will pay under £6 an hour to hire one of two cars. The pilot is aimed at people who cannot afford to buy and run a car, or one-car households who occasionally need a car or retired people who rarely use their cars. But it will be open to all – for whatever reason.
Julie said: “I planned the pilot and provided a business model to see if it could be sustainable long term. Three of us were working on it but unfortunately our funds were suspended because of lockdown. After lockdown we did some research and more than 92% of people liked the idea, mainly because of the environmental
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