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Hourly car insurance app launches with focus on festival season
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 20 May 2016
A new app offering car insurance by the hour, Cuvva, has launched at The Great Escape, with a view to helping festival goers to travel to events using friends’ cars which may otherwise being going unused.
The app was launched by avid festival fan Freddy Macnamara, who found it difficult to get around the country from rural Scotland, where he was living. “Setting up Cuvva was really just solving my own problem”, he tells CMU. “I wanted to be able to drive other people’s cars with minimum hassle whilst knowing that I was fully insured”.
On why he’s chosen to focus on travelling to music festivals with his car insurance venture, he says: “Based on our research, people will typically spend somewhere around £150-200 renting cars to go to festivals. With Cuvva, you are looking at spending somewhere between £20 and £40 for the insurance, even if you’d like to make a generous contribution to your mate for borrowing the car, that’s a pretty big saving”.
“Also, we’re aware that if you are tired at the end of the festival, it’s often nice to have someone to share the driving with”, he adds. “With Cuvva, with a few clicks you can have a friend helping with driving and covered under fully comp insurance”.
Find out more about Cuvva here. And read more of our conversation with Freddy Macnamara here.
