{"id":1327,"date":"2018-05-08T01:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T01:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectgreenlancaster.millersville.edu\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2020-05-07T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T21:24:54","slug":"zipcar-zips-onto-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectgreenlancaster.millersville.edu\/index.php\/2018\/05\/08\/zipcar-zips-onto-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipcar zips onto campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Noah Sundberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

The car sharing company, Zipcar, has been helping greatly to decrease the stress of owning a car for over a million people worldwide.\u00a0 Along with helping to aid monetarily, they have also been big in helping the sustainability of the world through their actions.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos by Noah Sundberg<\/em><\/p>\n

January 2000 – Zipcar Founded<\/em><\/p>\n

January 2017 – Zipcar comes to Millersville Campus<\/em><\/p>\n

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Picture by Noah Sundberg<\/p><\/div>\n

When Zipcar was created in 2000 by Robin Chase and Antje Danielson they had a specific idea in their minds.\u00a0 That idea was to help reduce the footprint left by cars all around the world through the process of car sharing.\u00a0 Now, 18 years later Zipcar is a successful car sharing company with over one million being served by the company worldwide and is accredited for how much car sharing has helped to cut down on environmental decay caused by cars.\u00a0 The company has twelve thousand cars in the continental United States and Europe. As part of its mission to become a cleaner campus in January of 2017 the Millersville campus became one of the over six hundred catered to by Zipcar with the addition of two cars to the campus for students to rent out, with the choice of a Ford Focus named \u201cSnappy\u201d and a Honda Fit named \u201cMedina.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Joining the service is extremely easy to do and entirely online at their website or through the app downloadable to a smartphone or tablet.\u00a0 The only information that it takes to become a member is a credit card for the membership fee as well as a current driver\u2019s license number.\u00a0 Once a person is all signed up all they need to do to start driving is to use the app to reserve a car and then their phone becomes allows them to unlock the car and start driving.\u00a0 The Zipcar company and car sharing in general have many benefits from being able to save people a lot of money as well as putting a significant dent in the effect of cars on the environment.<\/p>\n

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Picture from Zipcar website<\/p><\/div>\n

Economic Sustainability of Car Sharing<\/strong><\/p>\n