How OFTEN do you need a car?  That’s the question.  If you just need a car for a few hours a month, I recommend car sharing.  Services are found all over Chicagoland.  I like I-GO car sharing.  A lot of folks prefer Zipcar, but that’s probably because they don’t know about I-GO’s GO Budget plan.  Fifteen dollars/mo and

This is the last of the car-related articles that I wrote for Technocopia in 2000. Some things have changed since then and Canada has an electric car, the Zenn car. http://www.zenncars.com/ You can also check out Tesla Motors. http://www.teslamotors.com/ CAR MANUFACTURERS RACE TO BUILD AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAR, BUT WHO’S THE REAL WINNER? With greenhouse gases and tailpipe

Recently tried Zipcar as an alternative to traditional car rental. It is worth it in cities that have good public transportation, expensive car rental and hard to find (expensive) parking. New York, Boston and Washington DC definitely qualify. LA , San Jose and Dallas do not. The idea is that most of your meetings and your

Recently tried Zipcar as an alternative to traditional car rental. It is worth it in cities that have good public transportation, expensive car rental and hard to find (expensive) parking. New York, Boston and Washington DC definitely qualify. LA , San Jose and Dallas do not. The idea is that most of your meetings and your

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By Linda Tancs At busier transit hubs across New Jersey, commuters using rail and light rail services have another option to choose from to reach their intended destination–the Zipcar. The rentals, some of which are hybrid vehicles to benefit the environment, can be reserved online from NJ Transit for pickup at Metropark, Princeton Junction, Morristown, Montclair

This is a personal note about thinking about buying a car. In the next post (which may be posted elsewhere and I'll then post a link to it from here I'll analyze the current state of car shopping online in the US, which I will argue is pretty dreadful) The last time I bought a car was Dec 1999, before buying I did a fairly significant amount of research online, though in the end I didn't quite do enough, the deal I ended up signing was not particularly great and four years later when my car loan was due in full I calculated the value of my car at that time, how much I was actually using it, and decided to sell it and pay off the loan instead of buying it outright and keeping it. Probably the right move as I had almost not used the car at all, but at times I wonder. Though I went for a few more years where I really didn't need a car, now I suspect I do really need to own a car again, far too often the lack of having a car is impeding me from real business (and personal) life matters - and no, ZipCar or CityCarShare are not alternatives for me.

This morning I woke to find the following invitation/scolding from Zipcar: Hi Karrie, We know that you might be busy with work, errands or underwater macramé class Monday morning, but we wanted to invite you to the kick off of the Low Car Diet Boston at Back Bay Station. In case you don’t know what LCD is, we’re