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Zity will relaunch its carsharing next on May 20 at 8:00 a.m. after two months of inactivity. The company stopped its activity after the state of alarm was decreed on March 14. Now, the company is restarting its operations in Madrid, to which is added the launch of the service in Paris, which will also be available on May 20.
For this new stage, Zity has established a series of new rules and recommendations for use in order to guarantee the safety of its users and avoid contagion. In this sense, the company recommends taking the temperature before using the service and urges those users with suspicions of having the disease or who exceed 37 degrees body temperature not to use their cars.
Similarly, to use your vehicles from now on the use of a mask will be mandatory. A measure that accompanies that, in each of the trips, the users will be able to occupy the five places only if all the occupants reside in the same address.
Zity Cargo Center, Madrid.
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If not, the vehicles can only be used by two people at the same time and recommends that the second passenger travel in the rear row of seats.
“For ZITY, the safety of our users and employees is the most important thing, especially now that we are experiencing a pandemic situation in which we must take all measures to protect our health. Therefore, with the support of security specialists and health of Ferrovial and Renault, we have implemented the operating procedures and the new rules for the use of the service, which guarantee the development of our activity in the safest way for everyone, “says Javier Mateos, CEO of Zity.
In parallel with these recommendations, the carsharing It has increased the cleaning and sanitizing frequencies of its fleet, and has established a disinfection protocol. Vehicles will be disinfected 100% of the times they pass through the charging stations, which will occur at most every 48 hours.
To increase the frequency of disinfection, the company is deploying itinerant cleaning and disinfection patrols in all areas of the Community of Madrid where the service is available with the aim of achieving daily cleaning of the fleet.
New rates and more options
The company will take advantage of this relaunch to adjust its rates and extend the scope of its service in Madrid. Dynamic rates will continue to adjust the price per minute to existing demand. Starting next May 20, and temporarily, the minimum price per minute goes from 0.21 euros, to the new minimum rate of 0.17 euros per minute.
Similarly, Zity is launching new flat rates for rentals of up to three days. In this way, users will be able to use the vehicles for one day for 30 euros, two days for 50 euros and three days for 60 euros.
The company’s application will always automatically choose the cheapest rate for the user, so that if the user reaches a consumption of for example € 30, they can enjoy the vehicle for 24 hours from the start of the rental without any additional charge.
Gold Pin
Added to these rates is a new functionality called Gold Pin. From May 20, the Zity application will show with a yellow icon those cars that will be promptly promoted with the minimum available price.
This functionality will allow users to reserve these vehicles under the same conditions as the rest of the fleet, but benefiting from a rate of up to 0.17 euros per minute.
The company also will open all the public car parks it has available, and will keep child seats in 300 cars, with the obligation that children under the age of four who use them must be equipped with a mask. Airport service will not be operational until further order.
“Now more than ever we have to offer our users a more flexible and complete service, which allows them to make their necessary trips with maximum freedom and security, and at an even more affordable cost. It is also up to us to minimize the impact of the health crisis we suffer and to help the citizens of Madrid in this complex time “, concludes Mateos.
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