Cycling, public transport, trains, car sharing, electric cars, boats and planes.
Bike, train and car sharing cover many everyday trips, and this category starts with them. For people who need their own car, it also lists small electric models built in Europe.
L’Heureux Cyclage is the French network of community bike workshops: associations where you repair your own bike with their tools and the advice of volunteers or staff, for a small membership fee.
Alternative to paying a bike shop for every repair, or buying a new bike
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Citiz is a French network of car-sharing operators, most of them cooperatives. Members book a car by the hour or the day, pick it up from a fixed station near home and bring it back there, paying for…
Alternative to owning a car that stands still 95 % of the time, and free-floating car rental run by large groups
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Mobicoop is a carpooling website and app that takes no commission and shows no advertising: passengers share the driver’s costs, paid online, and nothing is added on top.
Alternative to BlaBlaCar and other carpooling platforms that take a fee on every booking
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Nightjet is the night-train brand of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), with trains from Vienna, Munich, Zurich and other cities to more than 25 European destinations, among them Hamburg, Berlin…
Alternative to short-haul flights and low-cost airlines between European cities
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Rezo Pouce is a free, organised hitchhiking network in rural and suburban France: members wait at signposted “arrêts sur le pouce” stops, show where they are going, and a driver from the network…
Alternative to needing a car, or a second car, in the countryside
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MAIF is a French mutual insurer, owned by its 4.2 million members, that insures homes, cars, bikes and borrowers. It became a société à mission in 2020 and gives 10 % of its profit to environmental…
Alternative to shareholder-owned insurers for home and car
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MesAidesVélo is a free French website that lists the public subsidies for buying a bike: after entering where one lives, it shows which aids from the town, the intercommunality, the department and…
Alternative to searching every town hall and regional website for bike purchase subsidies
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Wimoov is a French non-profit network of mobility centres for people who struggle to get around, mostly people in social and professional integration: a personal mobility assessment, advice and…
Alternative to losing a job or training for lack of transport
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The Renault 5 E-Tech is a small electric car built at Douai in northern France since October 2024, with a range of 300 or 410 km depending on the battery. For households that can’t do without a car…
Alternative to petrol and diesel cars, and large electric SUVs imported from China or the United States
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BlaBlaCar is a French carpooling platform: drivers publish a trip and sell the empty seats in their car to passengers going the same way. Booking and payment go through the website or the app.
Alternative to driving alone, or to expensive train tickets between poorly connected towns
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Getting around with less impact
Repair and do it yourself
Second-hand, swapping, lending and sharing
Work and cooperative economy
Travel and tourism
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