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NEW: Labour would put a huge fleet of publicly-owned electric hire cars — "People's Zipcars" — on the streets of Britain in a radical plan for "collective car transport"

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Here's how it works

— Labour government would buy 30,000 British-made electric cars
— they'd be leased to "community car clubs" run by cooperatives and local authorities
— you can rent them through an app
— targeted at marginalised and held back areas

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The policy is a direct challenge to privately-owned car-sharing companies like Zipcar

Zipcar has 2,600 cars in the UK mainly in cities like London and Bristol

Labour's publicly-owned rival would make 30,000 electric cars available in towns and villages

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Here is @RLong_Bailey on the plan for 30,000 publicly-owned electric cars buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/la…

Zipcar backs Labour's publicly-owned car-sharing alternative: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/la…