Zipcar Launches All-Electric Car-Share Scheme

Andrew Williams — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:20:55 +0000

US-based car-share giant Zipcar Inc. has launched its first ever Electric Vehicle Pod, featuring an all-electric Citroen C1 and a Plug-In Toyota Prius. The vehicles, among the most efficient and technologically advanced on the road today, can be hired by the hour for a fraction of the cost of owning one.

The company figures that EVs are ideally suited for early, large-scale use in Zipcar’s car sharing platform since the average Zipcar trip lasts just under four hours and less than 25 miles, well within the range of a typical EV.

Car Sharing Competition: Hertz Chases Zipcar

John Addison — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:35:37 +0000

Editor’s Note: John Addison publishes the Clean Fleet Report. Excerpts of this article will appear in his upcoming book – Save Gas, Save the Planet.

Car sharing programs are popping up all over the place. Introduced first in Europe, car sharing is now growing in the United States with over 200 car share programs operating in over 600 cities.

If you’re not familiar with car sharing, these programs allow two or more people to need only one car through a well-organized sharing service. Each shared vehicle results in 6 to 23 cars not being owned and evidence shows that once someone joins a car share program, they cut their vehicle miles traveled up to 80 percent.

Zipcar is the current US leader in car sharing, boasting over 260,000 members — individuals who live car-free in a city, couples who share one car, university students and staff, and corporate fleet and travel managers.

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Zipcar Launches All-Electric Car-Share Scheme

Car Sharing Competition: Hertz Chases Zipcar

Car sharing programs are popping up all over the place. Introduced first in Europe, car sharing is now growing in the United States with over 200 car share programs operating in over 600 cities.