Cambio CarSharing

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cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 2000
Seat Bremen
management Joachim Schwarz, Bettina Dannheim
Number of employees circa 230 (2019)
sales 30.7 million euros (2018)
(Germany: 17.8 million euros,
Belgium: 12.9 million euros)
Branch Car sharing and services for car sharing companies
Website cambio-carsharing.de

Cambio CarSharing (proper spelling: cambio CarSharing ) or short Cambio (proper spelling: cambio ) is a European services - group of companies in the car sharing industry by providing in Germany and Belgium is represented. The holding company , cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG , was founded in 2000 as a merger of three "pioneering car sharing companies" from Aachen, Bremen and Cologne and has since been based in Bremen . The Cambio Group offers car sharing for private and business customers and operates jointly with investment and partner companies currently (2019) in 23 German and 49 Belgian cities of more than 1,000 stations a total of almost 2,900 vehicles for more than 115,000 customers.

aims

When two associations were founded at the same time in 1990 in Aachen and Bremen that wanted to promote “ environmentally friendly traffic behavior” , according to Joachim Schwarz, founding member of StadtAuto Bremen and today's managing director of the Cambio Group, a “simple idea” was the basis: “We wanted Save costs and reduce the number of cars on the streets. "

Currently (beginning of 2019) a Cambio car is driven by an average of 42 customers and replaces between 8 and 20 private cars . “The communal use relieves the pressure on densely populated residential areas in particular. Our most important corporate goal is to increase the urban quality of life through more space on the streets, ”explains Joachim Schwarz in the Cambio Group's self-portrayal.

The group of companies

structure

The Cambio group of companies is currently (beginning of 2019) an amalgamation of 16 investment and partner companies in Germany and Belgium. The holding company, cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG , has been based in Bremen since it was founded in March 2000; The managing directors are Joachim Schwarz and Bettina Dannheim.
Dannheim worked as a radiation protection expert at Robin Wood . Schwarz, a social pedagogue, worked as a moderator for squatted houses in Bremen and in self-managed businesses.

The holding company does not operate a car sharing service, but rather provides the subsidiaries and partners with central services in the form of a franchise-like offering, in particular software and call centers . Through the subsidiary Carsharing Service GmbH (CSS) founded in 2005, the company also offers IT and call centers for other car sharing companies.

The actual car sharing business is operated on site by independent companies , which are mostly limited liability companies . Both customer relationships and customer care, as well as the entire vehicle fleet, are the responsibility of the local providers. The Cambio Group is mainly owned by customers and employees, which is due to the emergence of Cambio from the environmental movement and the ecological and economic key objectives.

Key figures and locations

The turnover of the Group amounted to 2,018 Cambio total of 30.7 million euros , of which 17.8 million in Germany and 12.9 million in Belgium were generated. At the beginning of 2019, the group employed over 280 people in Germany and Belgium. Since it was founded, Cambio Carsharing has been consistently awarded the Blue Angel eco- label .

At present (beginning of 2019) the group of companies has more than 115,000 customers in Germany and Belgium, including more than 78,000 in Germany. It provides more than 2,900 Cambio vehicles at a total of 1,050 stations, including more than 1,600 in Germany. 15 vehicle models are offered in four price classes. In addition, Cambio customers have access to a total of more than 5,700 vehicles in more than 210 cities in Germany and Belgium. a. through so-called cross-use at (other) partner companies outside the corporate group. Around a third of users are business customers who usually book vehicles for normal working hours, while private customers tend to drive in the evening and on weekends.

Cambio Germany is currently (beginning of 2019) represented in the following 23 German cities with 530 stations: Aachen , Achim , Berlin , Bielefeld , Bonn , Bremen , Bremerhaven , Düren , Eschweiler , Flensburg , Hamburg , Herzogenrath , Hürth , Jülich , Cologne , Lilienthal , Lüneburg , Oldenburg , Saarbrücken , Uelzen , Winsen (Luhe) , Wuppertal and Würselen .

Cambio Belgium is currently (beginning of 2019) represented in 49 Belgian cities with 530 stations, including: Aarlen , Antwerp , Bergen , Bruges , Brussels , Chiny , Gent , Hasselt , Kortrijk , Löwen , Lier , Liège , Mechelen , Mons , Namur , Oostende , Ottignies , Turnhout and Zwijndrecht .

The Cambio group of companies is the second largest car sharing company in Germany among the station-based car sharing providers .

Vehicle use

The vehicles can phone around the clock by the customer via the Internet and with the help of smartphone - apps be booked up to 180 days in advance. The journey can take anywhere from an hour to 30 days. The booking is transferred to the vehicle station within a few minutes. At the station, the key safe or the vehicle is opened with a personalized chip card . After the car has been returned, the trip data is sent to the head office for accounting.

The number of kilometers driven and the period of use are calculated. This includes the cost of gasoline, auto insurance, taxes, maintenance, and depreciation.

history

Cambio CarSharing station in Brussels, Belgium (2019)
Cambio electric vehicle in Aachen, Bielefeld, Hamburg, Cologne; Lüneburg and Saarbrücken is used: Renault ZOE (2019)

The Cambio group of companies emerged from the environmental movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Committed people in Aachen, Bremen and Cologne started using vehicles together independently of one another. StadtAuto Bremen and ViertelAuto Aachen were created at the end of 1990 and were among the first providers in the car sharing industry, while StattAuto Cologne was created in 1992. Increasing customer numbers led to increasing professionalism and in March 2000 the previously independent car sharing companies from Aachen, Bremen and Cologne merged and founded the Cambio Group - the holding company Cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG was created , based in Bremen. As a result, the offer was gradually expanded and extended to other cities in Germany and in neighboring Belgium. The Cambio Group is still predominantly owned by customers and employees.

In 2000 , the Aachen District Auto District brought in a newly founded subsidiary , Saarmobil Carsharing GmbH . In addition, in the founding year 2000, the possibility of booking Cambio vehicles via the Internet was introduced. In October 2001, the Bielefeld car sharing company CityMobil joined the Cambio Group. In April 2003 the company Cambio Oldenburg emerged from the Oldenburg car sharing association StadtTeilAuto , and Cambio Hamburg also opened in 2003 .

Since 2002, Cambio Belgium in Wallonia , since 2003 in the Brussels region and since 2004 in Flanders . In Belgium Cambio currently (beginning of 2018) has more than 31,500 customers and more than 1,160 vehicles at 458 stations.

Since 2008 there has been a Cambio offer in Berlin and under the name GoCar also in Ireland ( Cork ). In 2009, the Lüneburg provider Campus Mobil, operated by Campus Management GmbH , was connected to the Cambio system, which has one of the highest customer numbers per inhabitant with 700 customers. Since 2010 Cambio in Wuppertal has continued the former car sharing offer Carriba of the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke under its own brand.

In 2010, the service and quality of Cambio Carsharing in the cities of Aachen, Bielefeld and Cologne were awarded the service test angel of ADAC Nordrhein e. V. excellent.

Since March 2011, Cambio and Greenpeace Energy have initially been using six electric vehicles in car sharing operations in Hamburg, which are charged with green electricity from additional eco-power plants. In mid-November 2011 Cambio opened two car sharing stations in Bonn, the group of companies was represented in 14 German cities. Together with Greenpeace Energy, Cambio will be using electric cars in Cologne from March 2012 that are charged with green electricity.

Since May and November 2012 it has been possible to use the Cambio booking app to book vehicles or change bookings using Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. This is linked to a voluntary direct quality control of the vehicle condition.

In April 2013, Cambio joined the European Cleaner Car Contracts campaign . As a result, the company undertook to only purchase cars from 2014 that emit less than 105 grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per kilometer on average . For this step, the car-sharing company was awarded the Golden Fleet Award of the Cleaner Car Contracts awarded.

In September 2014, the first Cambio station was opened in Eschweiler and Herzogenrath, some of which use electric vehicles. In spring 2015, Cambio opened five stations in Flensburg in cooperation with the Flensburg Climate Pact .

Divisions

  • Car sharing : Subsidiaries in Aachen, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Flensburg, Hamburg, Cologne, Lüneburg, Oldenburg, Saarbrücken and Wuppertal as well as in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia. There are car types available from small cars to vans in four price classes, which can be booked by the hour, by the day or by the week.
  • Car sharing service : booking service with its own call center.
  • Technical service : car sharing software and vehicle access systems for on-board computers and key safes.

criticism

In the car sharing test conducted by Stiftung Warentest in September 2012, Cambio came last. The testers particularly criticized the general terms and conditions of the group of companies; in detail it was about the exclusion of liability when using vehicles without winter tires in winter as well as ambiguities regarding the transfer of customer data. Due to the criticism, Cambio's general terms and conditions were revised on July 1, 2013. In the follow-up test in July 2015, Stiftung Warentest found only minor deficiencies in the general terms and conditions, and Cambio took third place out of eleven tested providers with the grade “Good” (2.0). In the latest study (test 5/2020), Cambio also received the grade "Good" (2.3).

literature

Non-fiction

  • Willi Loose, Michael Glotz-Richter (Ed.): Car-Sharing and Public Transport. Relief potential through networked offers. Contributions to traffic practice . ksv Kölner Stadt- und Verkehrsverlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-940685-18-6 , p. 39-50, 63-70 .
  • Gisela Warmke, Bettina Dannheim: cambio . In: Bundesverband CarSharing e. V. (Hrsg.): CarSharing in Germany from the beginning until today . Second, expanded edition. ksv Kölner Stadt- und Verkehrsverlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-940685-15-5 , p. 29-40 .

Print and online media

Web links

Commons : Cambio CarSharing  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Data and facts - cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG (as of April 2019). (PDF file; 54 kB) In: cambio-carsharing.de. cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on March 8, 2019 (as of April 2019).
  2. ↑ (rv): cambio is turning 25: A simple idea - a clear statement. (PDF file; 988 kB) In: cambioJournal, edition 31. cambio CarSharing, November 2015, p. 2 , accessed on January 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jürgen Hinrichs: Car sharing is booming . In: Weser courier . January 15, 2018, p. 9 ( online at weser-kurier.de from January 14, 2018 [accessed January 15, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Company portrait - CarSharing relieves traffic and wallet (as of January 2019). (PDF file; 56 kB) In: cambio-carsharing.de. cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Company development >>  Milestones in the company's history. In: cambio-carsharing.de. cambio Mobility Service GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on January 22, 2019 (as of January 2019).
  6. ↑ (bcs): Current figures and data on CarSharing in Germany >>  CarSharing in Germany. In: carsharing.de. Bundesverband CarSharing e. V. (bcs), accessed on January 11, 2018 (as of January 1, 2017).
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Mag: Cambio takes over Carriba. (No longer available online.) In: Fahrtpark.de. bfp fahrpark + management , January 6, 2010, archived from the original on January 13, 2018 ; accessed on January 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fuhrpark.de
  8. ↑ Kristina Jürgenhake: Car sharing in the test. Bielefeld at the forefront. (PDF file; 16 kB) In: direkt-bielefeld.de. June 27, 2010, accessed on January 12, 2018 (digitized version in the 2010 Medienspiegel of the Bundesverband CarSharing e.V. on carsharing.de).
  9. ↑ Joachim Pohl: Provider Cambio: It's finally starting: car sharing for Flensburg. In: Flensburger Tageblatt (shz.de). September 14, 2014, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ See car sharing test by Stiftung Warentest . In: magazine test , issue 10/2012, pp. 68-73, and on test.de from October 5, 2012; accessed on January 14, 2018.
  11. ↑ See car sharing test by Stiftung Warentest . In: magazine test , issue 7/2015, pp. 74–79, and on test.de from July 10, 2015; accessed on January 14, 2018.
  12. ↑ See car sharing test by Stiftung Warentest . In: magazine test , issue 5/2020, as well as on test.de from April 29, 2020; accessed on May 17, 2020.