WhipCar wins Best Cleantech Startup 2010 at the TechCrunch Europas

24Nov10

We are grateful and proud to report that we’ve won TechCrunch Europe’s Best Cleantech Startup award for 2010. According to the judges, WhipCar “has the potential to change the nature of car use to one which is many times more efficient and ‘green’ than it is today.” It’s fair to say that we agree with their assessment!

It’s early days as we launched just seven months ago but we’ve calculated a few statistics along the way and determined that the average car registered on WhipCar generates less than 156.5 gCO2/km, which is more fuel efficient than the UK’s averge car at 176.3 gCO2/km. Furthermore, over 30% of WhipCars generate less than 140 gCO2/km.

The RAC released some new statistics today indicating that the annual cost of owning and running a car increased 6.3% over the last 12 months to £5,869. If we adjust this figure to exclude depreciation, which is a non-cash expense, the average new car owner has parted with £2,797 in hard earned cash this past year for something that lies unused for roughly 336 days of the year!

WhipCar now has over 1,000 cars on offer across 450 towns in the UK. Many members are earning hundreds of pounds per month by renting our their cars to local people who want to drive more sensibly. If you haven’t yet joined us what are you waiting for?