Passengers travelling to the capital on long-distance trains will be able to book an electric car for when they arrive starting this week, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) informs. Adding electric car rental to your train ticket will cost EUR 29, with customers able to hang on to their borrowed wheels for up to a week.
The cars themselves will be provided by DB subsidiary Flinkster, one of Germany’s largest car-sharing services alongside BMW and Sixt’s DriveNow and Daimler’s Car2Go.
Its fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles currently stands at 700 nationwide.
„We’ve planned the first phase of ‘Flinkster Connect’ consciously as a test,” DB director Berthold Huber said.
DB hopes that doing away with charges for registration and distance travelled will make their offer attractive compared with traditional car rental firms.
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