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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor

‘A long road ahead’: could community car-sharing help UK hit climate targets?

A man with a walking stick exits a white electric car, branded 'Green Fox', while a woman in a green tunic stands beside it.
Tilton launched its electric car club in 2023, which allows residents to hire vehicles by the hour or the day. Photograph: Green Fox Community Energy

In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic Miriam Stoate, a regenerative farmer from rural Leicestershire, noticed that too many people in her small village in England’s East Midlands were struggling to get around.

Although there were plenty of cars parked in Tilton, too often she found some of the village’s residents did not have access to one when they really needed it.

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