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Zipcar and the City of Houston Launch First of Its Kind Electric Vehicle Car...
Zipcar is the leading car sharing network worldwide. It just recently launched the Houston Fleet Share, a municipal electric vehicle sharing program. 50 city-owned fleet vehicles will be equipped...
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Avis Buys Zipcar In Deal Worth $500 Million, But Zipcar Now Being Sued
It was announced Wednesday that Avis Budget Group has agreed to purchase Zipcar in a transaction that is worth approximately $500 million. Zipcar would act as a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group if the...
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LA Zipcar Fleet Now Includes 2013 Honda Fit EVs
Zipcar, the top carsharing network in the world, just announced that it is introducing the 2013 Honda Fit EV into its Los Angeles fleet of vehicles. The addition comes as a result of Zipcar’s recently...
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Boston (The Origin Of Zipcar) Adds 4 New Electric Cars (Honda Accord Plug-In...
Boston claims to be the world’s guiding car-sharing network. Indeed, many urban areas are sprouting car-sharing wheels and participating in the convenience of Zipcars. Staying true to its car-sharing...
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Nissan Leafs Bring $110,000 In Annual Savings To Houston City Government
Originally published on EV Obsession. We’ve written about it many times: electric cars are much, much cheaper to run. Based on the average price of electricity in the US, gas at $3.50/gallon, and the...
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Car Sharing Decreases Car Sales Profoundly
Originally published on Gas2. A new report by AlixPartners suggests that for every one car ZipCar adds to its fleet, 32 other new or used vehicle sales are lost. It won’t take long for those numbers to...
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Autolib’ Electric Carsharing Program
By Ben Holland This post is the first in a series of profiles on innovative programs advancing the future of electric mobility. These programs and others will be featured in the upcoming EV City...
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Car Sharing Reduces Members Need To Drive
A study finds that car sharing members are learning to divest their lives of the need to drive. Turns out we don't need to drive as much as we thought! Car Sharing Reduces Members Need To Drive was...
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How Car Sharing Changes The Ways We Live
Why are car and bike sharing systems so popular, and how are they affecting the rest of our lives How Car Sharing Changes The Ways We Live was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read more from...
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You No Longer Need To Own A Car To Have A Car
No longer do you have to actually own a car to have access to one, and it’s changing the dynamic of city life especially You No Longer Need To Own A Car To Have A Car was originally published on...
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Annual Transit Savings = $9,569 In US (On Average)
How we move about — to work, to play, for health needs, etc. — contributes to economic well-being as well as personal health (or lack thereof). People in record numbers are now choosing public transit...
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More Love, Less Stuff — 3 Cleantech Gift Ideas
We’ve got a cool holiday series running across Important Media this year: “More Love, Less Stuff.” As that article writes, “Instead of focusing on giving gifts for the sake of gifts, we want to talk...
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Ford Challenges Uber With EV Car Sharing, Premium Minibus
Is Uber sweating yet? Ford has rolled out 25 global experiments for future mobility, including EV car sharing and a collaborative premium minibus shuttle Ford Challenges Uber With EV Car Sharing,...
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Carsharing Can Take Millions Of Cars Off The Road, & My Electrifying Proposal
This article jumps into 3 things: 1) my experience using (& loving) carsharing 10–12 years ago, 2) a new study out of London on the benefits of carsharing (or “car clubs” as they call them there),...
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50 Volkswagen Golf GTE Chosen For Zipcar Fleet In London
Originally published on EV Obsession. As part of a new partnership with Westminster City Council and Volkswagen UK, Zipcar’s London fleet will now include 50 brand-new Volkswagen Golf GTE plug-in...
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Zipcar Testing New Pay-Per-Mile Pricing System For Quick Trips
While the carsharing firm Zipcar has historically made use only of a per-hour or per-day rental pricing system, the company is now testing a new pay-per-mile pricing system for short trips, in select...
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400+ Electric Cars To Launch Electric Carsharing In 2 Polish Cities
Originally published on EV Obsession. Poland isn’t always a bastion for cleantech leadership and urban innovation — the national government recently took a bat to the knees of the competitive wind...
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Zipcar Passes 1 Million Member Milestone
Multi-modal transportation choices are a clearly good thing — humans love having options, freedom. The success of Zipcar car is a sign of the times, an example of how we have more options at our...
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Zagster + Zipcar = Zipbike — A New Vehicle-Sharing Venture Not About Cars
Most urban environments don’t need more cars. Most times, they need fewer cars. Zipcar has joined the solution to problems of space, parking, congestion, and air pollution in yet another way (aside...
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Zipcar — 7,000 Vehicles Across US Free For Use On Election Night
In order to grease the wheels of the process, so to speak, the carsharing company Zipcar will be making more than 7,000 vehicles available for people to use for free (for members) on the night of the...
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Zipcar Baltimore Car Share Members Drive Less, Give Up Cars, Use Mass Transit
Zipcar members in Baltimore are driving less, using public transportation more often and selling, or dropping plans to buy or lease, a vehicle. That's translating into less traffic congestion, less...
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HOT Bamboo Bicycle, Mayor Crushes Illegally-Parked Cars with Tank (+...
Bicycles (most efficient mode of transportation known to mad) + bamboo (super fast-growing, environmentally friendly plant) = awesome bikes
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Scoot Networks Is the Zipcar of Electric Scooters
Scoot Networks, one of the companies chosen by the Greenstart accelerator program, is bringing the Zipcar idea to scooters. The start-up is offering its
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Zipcar Chicago Car Sharing Adds Electric Vehicles
Zipcar, as far as I know, is the largest car sharing company in the world. I was a member for years when I lived in Chapel Hill, NC, when it was still a young and largely unknown company, and I found...
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Clean Transportation News
Aside from our 15 or so clean transportation stories from the past week, here are a few more from around the interwebs: Green Cars Ford has unveiled the cost of its Ford Focus Electric batteries —...
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Is Cincinnati the Greenest City in America?
Many cities trumpet their sustainability initiatives to claim the title of “greenest” city in America, but it’s hard to argue with the ongoing turnaround from brown to green in Cincinnati.
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Clean Tech Investors Finding Opportunities at Nexus of Energy and IT
By Mark Golden STANFORD, Calif.–U.S. investors in clean energy technology are looking to make only modest financial commitments to startups now, but they still expect nothing less than total passion...
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Charged 2012 EV Symposium
Important Media writer Susanna Schick recently attended the Silicon Valley EV symposium Charged 2012. Here’s her first report on it from sister site Gas2: Charged 2012 | Silicon Valley’s EV Symposium...
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London Carsharing Goes Electric As Zipcar Adds 325 New Electric Cars To The...
Zipcar, the largest carsharing network in the UK, has announced that it will be adding 325 new Volkswagen e-Golfs to its carsharing network, in partnership with
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The Future Of Mobility Will Be Multi-Modal, Shared, & Zero Emission
The future of mobility will be multi-modal, and when it involves a motorized vehicle, that vehicle will be shared and zero emission.
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Big Automakers Grudgingly Buy Into EVs. Oil Majors Still Lag Behind
Small, nimble startups are leading the shift to electric cars, while big U.S. automakers and oil majors are struggling to keep up
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