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Zipcar offers CO2 reporting and full audit capability, so businesses can see who is hiring vehicles, when, what it costs and what mileage they are doing.
"You can compare different people in the same job roles and ask why some do more miles than others," said Edgar.
The council deal is something of a pioneer, and Edgar hopes it will be viewed as a template for other local authorities, but there are other ways businesses can and are using car-sharing as part of their business travel.
"Because our vehicle access is 24/7 and 365 days a year, it doesn't matter if they need a car for three hours on a Sunday afternoon, and you don't need to go to a depot or pay for longer than you need," explained Edgar. "Most of our business is something between staff using their own vehicles and running a fleet - we can flex up or down as required."
Zipcar currently operates in London, Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, although 95% of the UK?business and usage is in the capital, and it also has operations in the US, Canada, Barcelona and Vienna, with a total of nearly 800,000 members worldwide.
Further examples of business use Edgar mentioned includes companies whose workers take the train if they have to come into one of the four cities Zipcar operates in, and then collect a car-share vehicle rather than hire a car, or take a taxi or public transport.
"If people are having to get a train, and then take a bus to the outskirts of Bristol, getting a car that's already parked at Temple Meads station is more likely to get an endorsement from people on a business journey," he says.
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