Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing company in North-America, is partnering with Honda to include more models of greener cars in its fleet.

A $75 million IPO filing by Zipcar raises the question: Can car-sharing turn a profit? Especially in the face of new P2P car sharing startups?

Peugeot started building bicycles in 1882 and cars in 1890, so they have a bit of a history in different modes of transportation. TreeHugger has been excited about car-sharing setups like zipcar and bike-sharing systems like Velib; product service systems like this let people have transportation when you need it rather than owning it when you don’t. Now Peugeot takes it one step further with “Mu”; They will supply you with anything you need, from a bicycle to a scooter to a car to a van, with options like child seats and rooftop boxes. It is coming to the UK next month, and the Telegraph looks at the pluses and minuses….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wanna Own a Piece of Zipcar?
Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing player in the U.S., has filed the paperwork yesterday for a $75 million initial public offering (IPO). It was only two years ago that Zipcar bought its smaller rival Flexcar, and since then it has been doing very well by some metrics, though it isn’t yet profitable. What will going public mean for the company?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sure, we have Zipcar, bike sharing, and even tool shares, but Good wants to know why this sort of thing isn’t more popular….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Car-Sharing Goes High-Tech
Car-sharing is a great way to have most of the benefits or owning a car without most of the downsides. Zipcar, one of the heavy-hitters of the car-sharing world, has released a new iPhone and iPod Touch free app that will make interacting with the company’s reservation service and vehicles better than ever, and that’s good news because the more attractive and convenient car-sharing becomes, the more cars we can take off our roads….Read the full story on TreeHugger