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How Consumer Creativity Is Transforming The Travel Experience

The contemporary traveler has graduated from reviews on Tripadvisor. Customers are now choosing their own adventures from airlines and hotels.

Car-Sharing Means There Are Already 500,000 Fewer Vehicles On The Road

It’s working!

Need A Ride And Don’t Mind Helmet Hair? Scoot Network Expands Throughout San Francisco

The Zipcar for electric scooters is slashing prices and adding more hubs for you to rent from.

Zipcar’s Philosophy On The Power Of Profuse Apology In The Face Of Customer Complaints

Zipcar’s Lesley Mottla shares why you need to accept and own up to problems that crop up when service goes wrong.

Will The Sharing Economy Destroy Brands?

There’s a consumer movement afoot to buy less and share more. Here’s how your company can innovate to keep up.

Zipcar For Office Space: A New Service Lets You Rent A Desk By The Hour

Breather offers ultra-short-term, hyper-local access to clean, classy rooms on demand for about $20 per hour.

Why The Sharing Economy Is Growing

People get into it for the money, but they stay with it for love.

Zipcar’s Co-Founder: Carsharing Is An Exponential Solution To Climate Change

Robin Chase thinks that the sharing economy can put an end to all our problems. But how do you get the sharing economy to the developing world?

How To Get Around The Peak Car Conundrum

We have tons of cars–and tons of congestion. But new breakthroughs in connecting cars to the cloud (and eliminating the need for car ownership) show what a better future for cars might look like.

What Happens To Zipcar Now That Avis Bought It For $500 Million?

And what does it mean for the future of the sharing economy?

Avis Budget Car To Buy Zipcar For $500 Million

Zipcar has faced increased competition, costs in car sharing market.

Electric Cars Aren’t The Future Of Car Sharing–Yet

Even though the services seem tailor-made for the cars, barriers abound–barriers that also offer lessons into why most people don’t have EVs in their driveways, either.

The Latest Local Deals Provider Is Your Car

Car-sharing service Zipcar plans to… zap drivers personalized deals and offers while they’re on the road.

This Bikesharing Program Lets You Lock Your Bike Anywhere

Bike sharing systems have traditionally been a point-to-point system: You can only drop your bike off at specific locations. ViaCycle uses a phone-controlled lock, so that you can leave it anywhere.

Forget Zipcar: Rent An Electric Scooter To Get There Faster

Is a new short-term scooter rental the true future of shared urban transportation?

A Digital Carpooling Network Comes To The U.S.

Daimler is paying to bring Carpooling.com, a popular European service that connects people with cars to people who needs rides, to the U.S. It’s about to become even easier to get where you’re going without your own wheels.

A Hitch In The Sharing Economy: Why Consumers Don’t Take Care Of Shared Objects

Double park. Give it a dent. Don’t change the oil. A new study finds that people treat their Zipcars like a magic fairy will come fix everything once they’re done with it.

7 Universal Truths for Ensuring Brand Relevance

The age of big corporations doing whatever they want is over. Now companies must find ways to give back, and to do it in ways that consumers find authentic. How can a company get there? Follow these rules.

3 Things Every Company Can Do To Stay Off Customers’ Sh*t Lists