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How can I live without a car?

May 14th 2009 11:59AM - 16 Comments

Overall, the trend for the upcoming years will be more and more cars, maybe up to 3.5 billion around the world (there are about 800 million on the roads today). Cars like the ultra-cheap Tata Nano are opening the door for more and more people to own ...

Carsharing, yes; owning, no #4: Ready to go

Oct 18th 2007 8:03PM - 3 Comments

As you can see in the pic, my car sharing user card arrived in the post today. That's nice, 48 hours after I faxed all the documentation they requested. The pic also shows the T10 cards that allow 10 trips on any kind of public transport in ...

Courier-sharing scheme appears in France

Aug 5th 2008 7:03PM - 7 Comments

Most of us are unaware of the impact of couriers services. Yes, it's good to get everything we ordered delivered straight to our door and it's usually greener than going to the mall to look for it, but here's an idea we just saw in France: courier ...

Paris' electric vehicle car-sharing system put on hold

Apr 16th 2009 8:58AM - 4 Comments

Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced an all-new EV public rental service, called Auto'lib, one year ago. Inspired by successful public bike rental system Ve'lib and the German Car2Go system (pictured above), the idea was that you could rent ...

When is carsharing not carsharing? When its Thrifty's "hourly rental"

Oct 30th 2007 8:11AM - 1 Comment

I suppose the best thing that Thrifty Car Rental's new "Hourly Rentals" deal has going for it is that it sort of bridges the divide between flat-out renting a car for the day and belonging to a carsharing service. Thrifty's new service, which started ...

Carsharing, yes; owning, no - An AutoblogGreen writer's story

Oct 13th 2007 11:20AM - 5 Comments

I need to replace my car. But, I have decided, more exactly, that I'm going carless. I currently have a car which has served me good. My late-1998 Seat Ibiza TDI Hit has reached 200,000 km on the odometer. The car has been a constant source of ...

Carsharing in Paris? Get your subscription for free

Apr 18th 2008 4:35PM - 0 Comments

Carsharing is quite a good thing. I'm actually using one in my own city (although, sadly, not regularly). One barrier to use is the monthly or yearly fee. A company in Paris has decided that this was unfair and has launched a set of carsharing ...

Forget Zipcar - Smart reportedly readying car2go car-sharing program in Texas

Nov 17th 2009 9:58AM - 6 Comments

Steers and Smarts - Click above for a high-res image gallery Daimler announced in March it would bring the tiny Smart car to the big state of Texas through its car-sharing service car2go. At the time, the German automaker declared that entering ...

Governor Schwarzenegger, eCarTec like Zero Motorcycles

Nov 13th 2009 1:02PM - 4 Comments

Gov. Schwarzenegger with the Zero S Zero Motorcycles is getting more than its fair share of attention. Recently, the company's Zero X was selected as the "Best Electric Motorcycle" during eCarTec in Münich, Germany in mid-October. This year's ...

Gallery: Field Museum Bike Share

Videos: not-for-profit City Car Share has 15,000 drivers

Dec 26th 2007 12:21PM - 1 Comment

The video above is a France 24 news report about City Car Share, a not-for-profit car sharing program based in San Francisco. The video report says City Car Share has 15,000 members that pay rates of $4 an hour and 44 cents a mile. A mother of two ...

Better Place and DSB to pilot electric car sharing for train travelers

Oct 25th 2009 11:51AM - 7 Comments

Will trains and cars become the voyaging version of peanut butter and chocolate? Perhaps. Better Place is partnering with DSB, Denmark's largest rail service provider, to offer an electric car sharing service at its train terminals. The project ...

CityWheels carsharing program offers alternative to car ownership

May 25th 2006 1:04PM - 79 Comments

"You must learn to share." I always hated that line.  I had two brothers and a sister so I got my fair share of that parental pronouncement. But I grew up (my wife's opinion not withstanding), and now I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford ...

Car sharing is the new hip thing in Japan

Jun 19th 2007 8:09PM - 1 Comment

We've heard of car sharing in Europe and North America, and now the only-have-it when-you-need-it model of car "ownership" is becoming more popular in Japan, according to Japan for Sustainability. Thanks in part to more government support and rising ...

Peugeot launches EcoSharing, a new Facebook car sharing app

Sep 17th 2008 1:36PM - 0 Comments

Using the Internet to share a ride is not new at all and we've found another system to help you share a car if you use Facebook. There's a new Facebook application developed by Peugeot called EcoSharing and it allows Facebook users to get in touch to ...

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