Birmingham medical students create green car-sharing app

Daniel Chivers and Michael Trueman were third-year medical students when they started to build the app

The app works out how much a passenger should pay and they can voluntarily contribute to environmental schemes."Trying to keep track... [of miles] is quite laborious. People don't know how much fuel costs because it's so difficult to calculate.In March 2020, while in their third-year, the pair started to create Commute: Fuel Splitter after calculating the average medical student in Birmingham is required to travel over 3,000 miles a year for clinical placements.

On the basis of an individual's "personal miles", which would be 10 miles for a 20-mile journey shared with another person, the app suggests how much you should pay towards projects to offset the carbon emissions of your trip.Daniel Chivers and Michael Trueman are looking for "eco-conscious investors"

They said they wanted "to make social change" and make personal petrol and diesel cars as sustainable as possible.

Perhaps, being medical students, their eyes will have been opened to the number of hospital outbreaks of COVID linked to staff car sharing...

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