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If you know in advance when you need a car, Zipcar is usually better. The limitations and benefits of each approach are clear.

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Car2Go, by contrast, depends upon a natural equilibrium that provides free (but not guaranteed) parking at any legal street space that is timed for more than 2 hours and lacks peak-hour restrictions). ZipCar’s guaranteed, reserved parking and round-trip requirement ensures reliable car availability and the ability to make reservations months in advance. ZipCar and Car2Go have radically different but exceptionally complementary approaches to fleet management. My own experience backs this up, my average Zipcar rental (2 hours) being 10 times longer than my average Car2Go rental (12 minutes). Zipcar’s round-trip requirement, however, can act as a de facto time penalty that can skew the financial calculation in Car2Go’s favor for longer than the 25-minute window.Īvailability and Parking No Cars Downtown? Zipcar’s 1-hour minimum and round-trip requirement punish short trips, but Zipcar’s 30-minute increment pricing and flatter rate structure optimize it for trips of 1.5-6 hours. After 8 weeks of using Car2Go, I thought I’d write this post both as a comparative analysis of Zipcar and Car2Go and as a chance to give readers the chance to comment on the new carsharing landscape.Ĭar2Go has a much more aggressive rate structure than Zipcar, but its per-minute pricing (38¢/min) gives it a small window (trips of less than 25 minutes) in which it is considerably cheaper than Zipcar. Alongside Zipcar (née Flexcar), carsharing is now big business in Seattle. When I lived in the U.K., ZipCar was only available in London, so I used WhizzGo instead for my trips to places outside the rail network (such as Malham Cove).Įnter Car2Go. It made quite the splash on the Seattle carsharing scene in December, going from obscurity to near ubiquity in a matter of weeks (see our posts here and here). ZipCar allowed me not to own a car from 2005-2012, and has provided me with a level of urban mobility of which I couldn’t have otherwise dreamed. I’ve used Zipcars in Seattle, Washington DC, Vancouver BC, Boston, and Pasadena, even sleeping overnight in one (a long story involving a Delta Airlines fail and fully booked hotels near National Airport). UT students, faculty and staff can join Zipcar at been a ZipCar member for 8 years, beginning in Boston in the pre-smartphone era in which I would (gasp!) call in to find available cars. Reservations can also be made over the phone or on Zipcar’s website.

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Participating members with smartphones, including iPhones and Android devices, may download the Zipcar mobile application to make reservations, lock and unlock the vehicles and honk the horn to help locate the vehicle. Simply enroll at and select “former Hertz 24/7 members.” Please remember to enter your Hertz membership ID number in the appropriate field. Zipcar will waive its first year’s annual membership fee for Hertz 24/7 members. Members can also use Zipcars in other cities when traveling for business or pleasure. Gas, insurance, and up to 180 miles of driving per day are included in Zipcar rates, and cars can be reserved for as little as an hour or for multiple days. UT community members can join for $15, with rates for Zipcar vehicles on campus starting as low as $7.50 per hour and $69 per day. The Zipcars will have designated parking spots located on Spaulding Drive for convenient pick-up and return. UT and Zipcar will offer three vehicles, a Ford Focus, a Toyota Corolla and a Nissan Versa Hatchback. The convenient, economical transportation option is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for students, faculty, and staff ages 18 and older. UT has partnered with Zipcar to offer a Zipcar car-sharing program on UT’s campus. Reserve online or using your mobile device – in seconds.Low hourly and daily rates include gas and insurance.All the perks of owning a car… and none of the hassles