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iPhone App Lets New Yorkers Share Car Service Rides
Anyone who has ever tried hailing a cab in New York City downtown on a weekend night knows it can be a combat sport. And then try getting that cabbie to take you to Brooklyn. If you live in Brooklyn...
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New Car-Share Service Lets Your Rent Your Wheels For Extra Cash
One of our favorite alternatives to hotels is Airbnb, a service that lets you rent out your extra bed to weary travelers to make a little extra cash and helps the traveler save money. It's a peer-based
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What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a
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Roo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)
Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo...
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BMW's New Car Share Lends You a Car Where You Find One, Lets You Leave It...
At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new
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How to Use Pocketbook Environmentalism to Convert the "Non-Greenies" in Your...
We all have that one person in our lives (or maybe more) who thinks going green is just not their thing. Perhaps it's your roommate who just can't seem to
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P2P Car Sharing Has Just Launched in Spain, an Interview with SocialCar
After car sharing services like ZipCar or BMW's New Car Share that lets you pick up and drop a car anywhere you want, it is no surprise that Person to Person car sharing is growing too. This works a...
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Paris Launches a Vehicle Sharing Program with 3,000 Electric Cars
When Paris' now famous bike share system Velib' in 2007, it was a pioneer in the field. Now similar programs are popping up in major cities all over the world, and Paris is looking to break the mold...
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EV Owners Offered $50 Reward for Sharing Their Car
Electric car owners are being offered cash rewards to share their vehicles and spread the EV love.
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New Idea For Sharing Urban Roads? Sidewalks Removed on Busy London Street...
Dutch Traffic engineer Hans Monderman is behind the revolutionary idea.
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All-Electric Minicabs - You Can Hail One in London
In London, there's now an all-electric car you can hail like a cab. No more range anxiety, congestion charge, or parking panic.
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Pocket $300 To Share Your Car
Portland changed its laws to allow people to share cars. Now the new service is giving car owners 300 bucks to share the sharing expeerience.
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How Millennials Feel about Cars, Public Transit and Electric Vehicles
Millennials are not happy with the sustainable options for transportation
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How Collaborative Consumption Could Help Shrink Government
Could sharing more be central to achieving the Right's biggest dream?
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Honda Partners with Zipcar, Will Provide Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrids, and EVs
Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing company in North-America, is partnering with Honda to include more models of greener cars in its fleet.
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Car2go Launches Car Sharing in Berlin - Why are the Germans Chuckling?
Daimler brings the flexible short-term rental concept to Berlin with 1000 SmartCars, raising smiles for more than just the pleasure of car sharing.
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How to Save Money By Sharing Your Car With Neighbors
Zipcar has made car sharing cool, but it doesn't always need a fancy business model. Sometimes you can just share with your neighbor.
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How Car Sharing is Taking Over Berlin
Robert Llewellyn explores Berlin's high tech systems for car sharing in an urban environment. He thinks he may have seen the future of mobility.
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Ridejoy iPhone App Makes Ridesharing Easy and Safe
The free app offers several ways of finding and posting rides for longer trips while verifying that your companion is legit and trustworthy.
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New Paris Car Sharing, Autolib', Expands and is a Success
Paris' Autolib started up last year and it's a big success now.
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Avis to Acquire Car-Sharing Leader Zipcar in $500 Million Deal
Car-sharing makes a ton of sense. Not everybody needs to own a car, but even those that do their day-to-day business on foot, bike, or using public transit could sometimes benefit from having access...
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Renting your car out to others takes 14 vehicles off the road
Interview with the CEO of RelayRides, a peer-to-peer car-sharing business that helps maximize the use of already existing vehicles while reducing the need to build new ones.
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The Economist puts the 'sharing economy' on the cover
For years we've been talking about renting or borrowing rather than owning. There are so many things that people own but rarely use...
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Combining electric cars and car-sharing to fight range anxiety
BMW will offer its EV customers an option called "add-on mobility" that would allow them to use a full-size BMW X5 SUV up to several weeks per year, either for family trips, as a backup, or whenever...
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New study shows how better communication technology is leading to less driving
The smart phone continues to change the way we live, work and get around.
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The newest in city mobility: a bus that goes where you want it to
In Finland on demand mini-buses are creating a whole new category of city mobility.
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How self-driving cars might change our cities
A great article in the New Yorker gives a great overview of the state of the art.
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This is a vending machine for tiny shared Chinese electric cars
This is one of those ideas that makes so much sense, in cities where you can barely see because of the pollution.
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Self-driving electric cars set to change city mobility
The intersection of car sharing and self driving electric vehicles may be a formula for city and environmental success.
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Why you haven't bought an electric bike yet, and 5 good reasons you might, soon
Sales of electric bikes - the pedal-assist variety - are growing much faster in Europe than the U.S. What's our reluctance? Car-culture hangover.
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