06 newtown new south wales founder nic lowe and bruce jeffreys and 10 other members headquarters sydney area served sydney melbourne brisbane and adelaide key people nic lowe and bruce jeffreys services carsharing owner carshare australia archer capital website 1 goget carshare is a car sharing service operating in sydney melbourne canberra brisbane and adelaide and the first such program in australia . 1 2 goget was launched as newtown carshare on 6 june 2003 with three vehicles and twelve founding members . 3 following interest from the city of darebin the service was extended to melbourne under the name goget in november 2004 . with the growth of the service to other areas in sydney newtown carshare was renamed goget in may 2005 . goget members choose a rate plan and pay an annual fee . fees cover fuel insurance maintenance and cleaning . the vehicles are mostly late model hatchbacks but also include vans utes and premium vehicles . each vehicle has a home location referred to as a pod either in a car park or on a street typically in a highly populated urban neighborhood . members reserve a car by web or telephone and use a key card to access the vehicle . goget is an invented word which reflects the utility you get from using rather than owning a car . as in go get the shopping go get the kids . in june 2014 goget had over 1300 vehicles australia wide . 4 in october 2015 goget had over 65 000 members which is estimated to take 100 000 cars off the road . 5 current fleet edit goget fleet at central park in sydney australia goget toyota yaris in melbourne toyota yaris toyota corolla kia carnival toyota hilux toyota hiace toyota rav4 kia sportage hyundai i30 wagon audi a1 audi a3 references edit scott rebecca 6 april 2005 . councils thinking small . the age . melbourne . retrieved 2008 11 09 . green light for 6 car hire in city . messenger the city . 29 march 2006 . goget provides cars for hire to people for between 4 and 6 an hour ... people sign up to become goget members and pay a monthly fee of between 15 and ... access date requires url help carsharing revs up . the sydney morning herald . 16 nov 2004 . caitlin fitzsimmons and su lin tan property developers ride the car sharing trend with goget partnership in brw 27 may 2014 jeffreys bruce october 29 2015 . speech . trailblazers conversation with bruce jeffreys . uts hatchery . missing or empty title help external links edit goget carshare v t e vehicle rental brands car rental ace rent a car advantage rent a car alamo rent a car auto europe avis rent a car budget rent a car carzonrent citer dollar rent a car enterprise rent a car europcar firefly hertz kemwel localiza national car rental payless car rental redspot car rentals rent a wreck sixt thrifty car rental taxiforsure meru cabs carsharing autolib autoshare buffalo carshare cambio carsharing car next door car2go city car club city carshare cityhop communauto vrtucar community carshare drivenow enjoy enterprise carshare evo car share flexicar flinkster getaround go op gocar goget greenwheels hertz 24 7 justshareit mobility carsharing modo momo car sharing mylescar reachnow rideshare delaware stadtmobil turo uhaul car share yourdrive zipcar zoom recreational vehicles bunk campers canadream cruise america wicked campers truck rental budget truck rental enterprise rent a truck hertz moving truck rental northgate penske truck rental ryder u haul united rentals defunct flexcar i go phillycarshare streetcar tilden rent a car whizzgo this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title goget & oldid 734304265 categories car sharingcompanies based in sydneytransport in sydneyaustralian company stubshidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlpages with citations lacking titlesuse dmy dates from june 2011use australian english from june 2011all wikipedia articles written in australian englishpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 august 2016 at 12 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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