ZipCar

Making a new car that is more fuel efficient than an older model is certainly a good thing, but if that car sits still for 22 hours a day – when it could be used by someone else and thus eliminate the need for another vehicle to be built altogether – then that's even better, right? If ...

It's great when a business has a model that provides a service at benefit to the environment. It's even better when that business also turns a profit. Zipcar reported its third quarter financials this week. If you only looked at the resulting change in the stock price, you might think that ...

The nation's biggest car-sharing service, Zipcar, just keeps on getting bigger. This week, Zipcar announced it would now offer short-term car rentals on 36 new higher education schools in North America, trying to capture the use-don't-own spirit of today's young people. The company's new Facebook ...

They walked more than 2,250 miles, biked nearly 4,200 miles, took 1,175 trips on public transit, and lost 165 pounds. Those are the results of the Zipcar 30-day "Low-Car Diet." This is a situation when numbers truly tell the tale. Recently, Zipcar announced the results of its fourth annual ...

What's the best way to avoid the cost of car ownership, keep the flexibility of having four wheels available when you need them and – possibly – save the world? How about car sharing? A large-scale study of 6,281 carsharers by University of California Transportation Center shows that ...

Zipcar has a long history of promoting its collection of Minis and Priuses that members can rent by the hour, but after today's announcement that 1,000 Ford vehicles will join the car-sharing program – making it the largest automotive source in Zipcar's University program – we may see ...

Having been ready for download in the Android market for a while now, Zipcar has officially dropped the beta tag from its Android app v1.0 and made it available to all. The official Zipcar Android App v1.0, which runs on Android OS 2.1 or higher, is now faster and packed with more features than ...

While the Android market is predicted to finally outgrow Apple's iTunes App Store sometime this year, many mobile software developers still focus on iOS apps before turning their attention to other platforms. That's exactly what Zipcar did with its iPhone app (which, for those keeping score, was ...

Last week, Zipcar announced a move that will almost surely appeal to its outdoorsy customers. With sunny days ahead, Zipcar plans to tap into the need for exercise and open-air recreation by adding some complimentary items to 20 of its Ford Escapes in New York City. As part of Zipcar's ...

Zipcar's initial public offering (IPO) earlier this month turned a concept – vehicles available for rent by the hour – into a $1.2 billion stock-market value, according to Barron's, America's so-called "premier" financial magazine. However, the car-sharing company, as we've pointed ...