Julien Honnart, president of Klaxit. Klaxit Blog
Thanks to the government bonus of 100 euros paid to drivers, the platforms that offer this service on short journeys are accelerating.
A meat lover, a vegetarian and a vegan in the same car; a passenger traveling with a naturist driver… The sketches of Cocovoit , which have millions of views on YouTube, capture hilarious situations during carpools. Rather long journeys than short breaks: if long-distance carpooling has become commonplace in France, welcoming strangers in your vehicle to go to work remains a fledgling practice.
“For daily trips, drivers are not very flexible: they don’t want to make a 5 km detour if the journey is 15 or wait ten minutes. It passes more easily for a route of several hundred km which takes a few hours“, explains Adrien Tahon, director of BlaBlaCar France, which, in addition to its historical activity on long trips, launched BlaBlaCar Daily in 2018. As a result, short-distance carpooling generated only 5.2 million trips last year, according to …
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