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...
View ArticleZagster + 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...
View ArticleZipcar — 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...
View ArticleZipcar 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...
View ArticleHOT 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
View ArticleScoot 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
View ArticleZipcar 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...
View ArticleClean 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 —...
View ArticleIs 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.
View ArticleClean 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...
View ArticleCharged 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...
View ArticleLondon 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
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleBig 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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