Hints and tips:
...The New York-listed company has appointed a former Zipcar executive, Andrew Kupiec, to head Hana, a new wholly owned subsidiary that will operate flexible offices aimed mainly at larger companies....
...Apart from our car, two Zipcars reside on my street, and my iPhone offers multiple services, including taxis from Uber and Addison Lee, DriveNow electric BMWs, and peer-to-peer booking of neighbours’ vehicles...
...The estate agents selling these flats pitch that mobility is not a problem because ride-sharing apps and shared mobility solutions such as Zipcar are changing the way we live....
...US-based Avis — which operates car rental brands including Avis, Budget, Apex, Payless and Zipcar — said that revenue for the three months ending March 31 was $1.84bn, just under the $1.88bn that analysts...
...Google Now, the group’s automated organiser, can draw information from existing apps such as restaurant booking service OpenTable and car share company Zipcar....
...And both Uber and Zipcar are classic disruptive technologies, made possible by computing, internet-connected smartphones and GPS....
...I have not owned a car for years, neither in London nor here in San Francisco, where alternatives range from Uber and Lyft’s low-cost taxi replacements, to Zipcar and Getaround’s car-sharing schemes....
...GM said it had poached ride-hailing and car-sharing specialists from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar, a now defunct Uber rival that GM acquired earlier this week....
...The main downsides: “Zipcar needs some planning at weekends — there aren’t that many cars to go around, so I book early. And it’s not cheap. I paid £75 for a 24-hour rental one Saturday....
...Robin Chase is a founder of Zipcar, Veniam, Buzzcar and GoLoco. Her book ‘Peers Inc’ is published in June. Michael Skapinker returns next week...
...In a guest column last week, ZipCar co-founder Robin Chase predicted a period of great upheaval, culminating in driverless cars, that will ultimately improve transport overall....
...But I am sure you will have heard of some of its participants: Airbnb, Zipcar, BlaBlaCar. Some of you may have heard the concept of the collaborative economy or on demand economy....
...In 2013, Avis agreed to buy Zipcar....
...Zipcar, which operates in cities including London and Oxford, reckons drivers can save almost £3,000 a year by using its services rather than owning a conventional car....
...In the end, we use Zipcar or Uber for transport, stay at Airbnb and consume music using Spotify and Netflix – why should it be any different with clothes?...
...Chase made her name as a mom-of-three in Massachusetts who in 2000 co-founded Zipcar, a car rental upstart and one of the pioneers of the sharing movement....
...They also face competition from car-sharing services that are expanding across Europe from other countries, such as US-based Zipcar, which already has a large presence in the UK....
...Zipcar, which claims to be the biggest car-sharing club in the world, said last summer that it had more than 800,000 members worldwide. Similar services are expanding elsewhere....
...Zipcar is testing the one-way model in Boston and French tycoon Vincent Bolloré plans to launch the Autolib’ electric car rental network in London next year....
...— eliminating the second car’s associated costs in tax, insurance, maintenance, parking and any repayments on its purchase — they could save as much as £3,600 a year, according to the car share scheme Zipcar...
...That, said Drue Freeman who helps manage the company’s sales and marketing division for cars, would be useful for integrating their cars into car-sharing services such as Zipcar....
...Brett Akker was part of the team behind Streetcar, the UK-based city centre vehicle rental service that was bought by rival Zipcar for $50m....
...A number of big players in the car industry, for example, have invested heavily in the sharing industry, such as Avis’s purchase of the car sharing company Zipcar....
...There was a very interesting session this morning on the “sharing economy” focused on the consequences of companies such as Airbnb, which allows people to rent their rooms out, or Zipcar, which allows people...
...Mark Norman, president of Zipcar, says: “It’s about a better way to use a car in a city and lets urban owners ditch car ownership . . ....
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