May 20, 2018. By Alex Colosivschi
To further aid our customers in estimating the benefits of joint car subscriptions we have built a simple indicative financial calculator.
The calculator is built to demonstrate the power of “compound interest” when applied to potential savings from sharing a vehicle with 2 or 3 other subscribers.
After all car is the second largest expense item of American families after housing.
What is “compound interest”? Imagine you saved $350 a month by sharing a car with another subscriber. Annualized savings would be $4,200 ($350x12 months).
If invested in S&P 500 stock market index, and assuming the US stock market maintains an approximate 10% growth per year (average growth between 1997 – 2017), $4,200 saved and invested in Year 1 could be worth over $23,000 in 18 years, if all profits and dividends are reinvested. Just in time for college tuition payments if you have a newborn.
Once you start considering that you can achieve such savings and returns for every year of car use, numbers “really” start adding up.
Here is how the numbers add up:
Here are the inputs used to calculate the value of shared car subscription savings:
Basically what we have done here is assumed that every year the savings from joint car subscriptions will be invested in S&P500 index for a period of 18 years with dividends being reinvested.
You may ask but how is this possible? How can $4,200 or $5,600 in annual savings possibly become worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in 18 years? How?
There is a reason Warren Buffet attributes his financial success to the power of “compound interest” and Albert Einstein called the compound interest the eighth wonder of the world.
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