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City Carshare was a carsharing program that operated in the San Francisco Bay Area, starting in 2001. [1] It rented vehicles by the hour. [2] In November 2016, the company effectively ceased operations, when Getaround, a for-profit, carsharing company, took over City CarShare's fleet, parking spaces, and member base.
Turo bills itself as the “world’s largest car sharing marketplace,” and is available in more areas than Getaround. Pricing seems to be a bit more affordable as well, but that can depend on a ...
City Car Club: United Kingdom 1,000+ Cityhop: New Zealand 80+ May 2018 70+ 10+ Communauto: Canada 2000 March 2018 Round-trip / Free-floating Community CarShare: Canada 76 Delimobil incl. Anytime and Anytime Prime Russia 16,000+ December 2020 [1] Free-floating: Didi Chuxing: China Enjoy: Italy 2,670 June 2016 Free-floating: Enterprise CarShare ...
The first reference to car sharing in print identifies the Selbstfahrergenossenschaft car share program in a housing cooperative that began in Zürich in 1948. [2] [3] By the 1960s, as innovators, industrialists, cities, and public authorities studied the possibility of high-technology transportation – mainly computer-based small vehicle systems (almost all of them on separate guideways ...
Peer-to-peer carsharing is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption, as part of the sharing economy. [1] The business model is closely aligned with traditional car clubs such as Streetcar or Zipcar (est. in 2000), [2] but replaces a typical fleet with a ‘virtual’ fleet made up of vehicles from participating owners. [3]
Zipcar Charging Station in San Francisco, California. Shared transport or shared mobility is a transportation system where travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously as a group (e.g. ride-sharing) or over time (e.g. carsharing or bike sharing) as personal rental, and in the process share the cost of the journey.
[3] [4] Other national operators include Enjoy in Italy, GreenMobility in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Germany, CityBee in the Baltic states, GIG Car Share in California, and Evo Car Share in Canada. Additional markets that also have free-floating carsharing services include Russia, China, New Zealand and Brazil.
Turo Inc. is an American peer-to-peer carsharing company based in San Francisco, in the United States.The company allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles via an online and mobile interface in four countries (the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia) [4] and new corporate owners to rent out their cars in France in addition to the four previous countries.