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Membership and Usage Costs

Member Shares

Your one-time member share purchase reflects your share of ownership of the Co-op. You will receive a full refund for your member shares if you decide to leave the Co-op.

An Individual Membership ($400 of shares) allows two drivers in the same household. A Group Membership ($700 of shares) allows up to 4 drivers from a small businesses or organization. You can add a driver for an extra $100 share each. Contact us for options for larger businesses.


Monthly Fee

Members pay a small monthly administrative fee of $15, but may "inactivate" their membership during months when they will not use a vehicle. Inactive members are not charged this administrative fee. Members may call or email to activate or inactivate.


Use Fees

Every time you use a vehicle, you pay for both the time used and distance traveled:

  • $0.42/km for the first 40km of your trip, then $0.25/km for each additional kilometer. This long-distance discount is offered through December 31st but may be made permanent.
  • $2.82/hour, billed by the half hour ($1.41 for each half hour). There is no hourly charge from 11pm to 7am. To make longer trips more affordable, our daily rate is $35.25 for the first 24 hours and $29.61 for additional days. Hourly and daily rates do not include kilometers driven.

Rates include gas, insurance, cleaning, and maintenance, but not GST, PST, and PVRT (a car rental tax: $1.50 per 24 hours for trips over 8 hours). Our rates may increase up to 5% per year. A fuel surcharge may be added to if a month's fuel expenditures are >30% of kilometer revenue. We have not had a fuel surcharge since October 2008.


Sample Trip Costs

Quick shopping errand or date or sporting event (10kms and 2 hours)
Car Sharing: $9.84
Taxi: $30
You save: $20.16

Round trip from Victoria to Nanaimo (200kms and 10 hours)
Car Sharing: $85
Car Rental and insurance: $92.37
You save: $7.37

Round trip from Victoria to the Airport/Ferry (50kms and 2 hours)
Car Sharing: $25
Airporter: $37
Taxi: $120
You save: $12 - $95


Is Car Sharing Affordable?

Car Sharing is usually less expensive than car rental for trips under 200 km. We have developed an excursion rate to make longer trips even more affordable. Car Sharing is usually cheaper than car ownership for people who need a car (or a second car) less than five days per week.

According to BCAA, the annual cost of Canadian small car ownership is about $7000 more per year than our average member spends on Car Sharing. Could you use an extra $7000?