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"Mass" transit for Zipcar

Mar 29th 2007 7:41PM - 0 Comments

Zipcar, the carsharing service, is expanding its offerings in Massachusetts, and it's a seriously mass transit combo. The expansion is taking place in Malden, Quincy, Newton, and Braintree at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) T ...

BREAKING: Zipcar, Flexcar to merge

Oct 31st 2007 12:40AM - 4 Comments

There are reports that the car share companies Zipcar and Flexcar will merge. Financial terms were not disclosed but it looks like Zipcar is absorbing the smaller Flexcar. The name of the merged company, which will have more than 5,000 vehicles and ...

Profits absent as Zipcar grows

Sep 2nd 2008 10:12AM - 3 Comments

If Zipcar were available in the city where I live, I'm pretty sure I'd be one of the first to sign up. And the realization that sharing a car is a good idea has struck a lot of people around the country. In fact, Zipcar's membership should hit ...

Zipcar coms to University of New Mexico campus

Feb 3rd 2008 10:34AM - 0 Comments

We can add the University of New Mexico to the list that also includes MIT, Columbia, Georgetown, Ohio State, Arizona State University, American University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of Toronto, University of North ...

Philadelphia will use Zipcar for city fleet

Jun 12th 2008 2:22PM - 2 Comments

The city of Philadelphia has found a new way to cut expenses by eliminating vehicles from its city fleet. However, many city employees still need to get around sometimes. They've decided adopt the car-sharing model and they put out a request for ...

Zipcar-Flexcar merger update

Dec 14th 2007 4:02PM - 0 Comments

At the end of October, news came that the two biggest car sharing services in the U.S., Flexcar and Zipcar, would merge (and keeping the name Zipcar). In an email update to Flexcar members the other day, Flexcar included a few more details on the ...

Hertz puts the hurt on Zipcar at OSU

Jan 6th 2009 5:22PM - 0 Comments

The Ohio State University like a few alt-fuel cars: the Buckeye Bullet 2, hydrogen-powered golf carts and Zipcar/Flexcar. Well, scratch that last one. OSU has decided to give the campus car-sharing contract to Connect by Hertz instead of Zipcar. The ...

Video: CNN interviews Zipcar's CEO

Aug 7th 2007 2:24PM - 2 Comments

We have written about Zipcar several times. They are a car sharing service with rates as low as $50 a year and $9 an hour (for Washington, DC right now anyway). CNN interviews the CEO and follows him through the process of renting a car. Zipcar uses ...

Zipcar comes to Philadelphia with special deal for hybrid rentals

Mar 27th 2008 5:17PM - 1 Comment

With 110 vehicles - incuding 20 Priuses - now available for rental by the hour, Zipcar started service in Philadelphia this week. Haven't heard of Zipcar? Then you must be new here. Welcome, and here's what you need to know about car sharing, which ...

Zipcar-driving voters in Philly choose Obama

Apr 22nd 2008 7:31PM - 0 Comments

Not quite sure what to make of this, but on a day when America's political eye is turned to Pennsylvania, Zipcar would like us all to know that the car-sharing company took a weeklong poll of Zipcar members in Philadelphia and found that Barack ...

High gas prices a bonanza for Zipcar

Jul 11th 2008 7:17AM - 12 Comments

High gas prices have us all feeling the pinch ($65 bucks last night for me), and as you're all well aware, many folks are changing their driving style, the amount of driving they do, or, in some cases, saying good-bye to their cars or trucks ...

Zipcar reservations now possible over cell phones

Sep 20th 2007 3:12PM - 0 Comments

As if car sharing through Zipcar wasn't easy enough. Zipcar announced yesterday that the company's web-based vehicle reservation service will now be available on a mobile-friendly site. Thanks to a "robust GPS enabled Zipcar widget" from ULocate ...

Car sharing comes to Chicago with Zipcar's newest hub

Jul 13th 2006 5:27PM - 0 Comments

Zipcar, the largest car sharing service in the country, opened up shop in Chicago yesterday, with dozens of cars now parked throughout the city awaiting customers. But Chicago is not the last city in the Midwest the car ownership alternative company ...

Zipcar has largest service launch in Vancouver, BC

Apr 9th 2007 8:53AM - 1 Comment

Zipcar, the car sharing service, opened shop in Vancouver, British Columbia last week with a starting fleet of 100 cars. That may not seem like a lot in a city of 600,000, but it's the largest market launch in Zipcar's history. Zipcar made a move ...

Zipcar has 100 vehicles available now in Chicago

Sep 13th 2006 2:03PM - 4 Comments

100 cars are ready to be shared and are waiting in 14 neighborhoods around Chicago, part of yesterday's launch that gave Zipcar the largest car sharing fleet in Illinois. The state government is promoting car sharing through a $25,000 grant that ...

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