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Zipcar, the world leader in car sharing!

Founded ten years ago in Cambridge (Massachusetts) by young entrepreneurs who want to "redefine how their generation apprehends transportation, Zipcar is now the world's leading car sharing in the world. 325 000 users in over 50 cities in North America and London shared 6500 vehicles. Expanding into more than 140 U.S. campuses and creating "Fastfleet" or "fast fleet" for companies, Zipcar now has a number of users is growing 100% per year since 2004.

Zipcar has initiated several innovations. Latest, a reservation system through a mobile application iPhone. This application is used to find, select and reserve a car. Better still, it can even control the locking and unlocking of doors! An adapted mobile website is also available for other smartphones, offering reservation and geolocation of cars available.

Another innovation, Zipcar offers electric and hybrid vehicles, notably in London where the next step is to provide by 2012, 400 cars in car sharing with about 30% of hybrids.

The company currently generates $ 130 million of revenue, with growth of 30% per year and anticipates go public in 2010.

This dominance is particularly the result of the merger with its main competitor Flexcar in 2007, whose founder Neil Petersen is responsible for importing the concept of car sharing in the United States in 2000 after Discovery of this principle in Switzerland. At the time, he tries to move his project to large groups such as Hertz or Budget rental. No answer from them, he endorsed the public transport Seattle to create in 2000, the first car-sharing company in North America. With a modest investment staff, he started his business with two cars available in the downtown ...

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Communauto Montreal Carsharing reference to Lyon!

Lyonnais and Quebec will soon pass in the 22nd interviews Jacques Jacques Cartier, including Monday, November 30 at a seminar organized by the LPA patterns shared and sustainable mobility ( download the program). The opportunity to make the car other stock Communauto , the car sharing service in Quebec. An article written by Alain Hocherau on See site provides more information.

Communauto is the third largest car sharing company in the world behind Zipcar in the U.S., and Mobility in Switzerland with 20,000 subscribers and 1,000 vehicles. Annual growth has stabilized around 25% which suggests the potential for development of car-sharing activities.

By entering into the "cocktail" of mobility alternatives to private cars, Communauto allows a specific use of the car users with public transport, cycling, walking ... Thus the company has entered into several agreements with companies transport (cycling, self-service Bixi, society Transport de Montréal) for combined rates and tariffs.

Among the results, there is a user satisfaction rate of 95%, a decrease in car km built about 3000 km / person / year.

While Greater Lyon has a size equivalent to that of Montreal, its public transport network is more developed than is cousin Quebec, the development potential of Car sharing is similar. But the capital of Gaul was delayed with 10 times fewer users of car sharing and public authorities on the subjects little present, especially in terms of communication, critical point for attracting new users.