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Laura Owen Aug 7, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

A Digital Life: I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I want a car

People my age are driving less than they ever have before. Sometimes I want a car, but that's partly because car-sharing startups haven't yet taken off in my neighborhood.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jun 28, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

The web sharing economy is booming in the crowded streets of Paris

The web sharing economy is thriving in the heart of Paris due to the crowded streets, and perhaps something a little more intangible in the Parisian culture.…

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Cleantech, Europe, Science & Energy, Technology
Rani Molla May 28, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

How car/ride-sharing companies stack up against each other (chart)

As our growing population competes for resources and space, car sharing may become more prevalent. We looked at how some of the biggest car- and ride-sharing companies that operate in the U.S. compare with each other.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Ucilia Wang May 15, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

How RelayRides is making money from long-term car sharing

Peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides tells us that long-term sharing -- over days, weeks and months -- makes up the bulk of their sales. Is this an emerging trend for this nascent service?…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher May 14, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

RelayRides buys up car sharing startup Wheelz for the tech

Peer-to-peer car sharing company RelayRides has bought up startup Wheelz, partly for its automated system that lets users easily unlock and drive away in a car without having to get a key from the owner.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Eliza Kern Nov 8, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Update: Google expands venture fund to $300 million

Google has expanded the size of Google Ventures's annual fund from $200 million to $300 million annually, which will allow the firm to expand the scope of its deals and increase its presence as a major venture capital firm since its founding in 2009.…

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Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jul 17, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

GM opens up OnStar with peer-to-peer car sharing service

The around 6 million subscribers to GM's OnStar connected car service can now rent out their cars to other drivers via a deal between the auto giant and peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides. The partnership was announced back in October of last year.…

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Cleantech, Mobile, Science & Energy, Technology
Adam Lesser May 8, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Who’s liable in the share economy?

The tragic story in which a man rented a car in Boston via peer-to-peer car sharing company RelayRides and wound up seriously injuring four people while losing his life, raised a familiar question for the share economy: Who’s responsible?…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Ucilia Wang Feb 22, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Zipcar backs peer-to-peer car sharing startup Wheelz

Will car sharing pioneer Zipcar move into the emerging industry of peer-to-peer car sharing, or enabling neighbors to rent out other neighbors' vehicles? Well, Zipcar hasn't launched such a service, but it's invested in one of the new peer-to-peer car sharing startups Wheelz.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Nov 23, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why Google ditching its clean power research isn’t a big deal

Despite Google shutting down its clean power philanthropic initiative, Google still remains committed to clean power in several ways far more important, which have represented the bulk of Google's work with energy.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 21, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

The economics of peer-to-peer car sharing

Peer-to-peer car sharing has emerged in select cities as a way for car owners to rent their vehicles to people in their neighborhood. But are car owners, drivers or the companies making money? The key will be that the economics pan out for everyone.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Adam Lesser Oct 10, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Today in Green IT: The Q3 Numbers

The third quarter's numbers are out from the Green IT section of GigaOM's research subscription service GigaOM Pro. Solar is struggling, while IT-based systems like car sharing are soaring. Dig into the details with us.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 9, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

A cheat sheet of peer-to-peer car sharing players

Two peer-to-peer car sharing startups have launched in the Bay Area in recent months (there's at least five here now), and there's four peer-to-peer car sharing companies in France. Here's my cheat sheet of a dozen companies offering websites to facilitate car sharing among neighbors.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 5, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

GM partners with RelayRides for car sharing

Auto giant GM is making its first move into car sharing by partnering with San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides, using its communications system OnStar. RelayRides also says it is in advanced discussions with GM about an investment.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Sep 28, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Wheelz: Car sharing for campuses

The peer-to-peer car sharing space is getting crowded. On Wednesday a startup called Wheelz launched at Stanford University with the idea to bring student-to-student car sharing to campuses.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Sep 6, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

It’s official: Car sharing reduces vehicle ownership

While many of you know this to be anecdotally true, here's an official study on the trend: According to the University of California Transportation Center, car sharing leads to the reduction of personal vehicles owned.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Michael Wolf Aug 3, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Take our poll & share your views on AirBnB, other web-sharing startups

There's been an explosion of interest in web-sharing services, a growing movement of lending and bartering services that create economical and sustainable consumption methods. Take a few minutes to tell us how you feel about this movement in our new survey, and maybe even win prizes.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jul 31, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

The web-sharing economy and its biggest risk

The Airbnb horror stories that have emerged in recent days expose the biggest pain point for the economy that has built up around using the web to share "stuff," from apartments to cars to tools: security.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jul 7, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

The collaborative home: an infographic of web sharing

Ownership is old-school. The folks at Collaborative Lab have put together this infographic and startup list to highlight all the innovation that is happening around using the web to share "stuff."…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Jun 8, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

How the web and mobile can help with the full planet problem

The problem of feeding and providing energy to 9 billion people by 2050 will require many technology solutions. But in a unique way, the web and mobile can act as a sort of operating system for physical stuff, leading to more efficient use of resources.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher May 24, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Google Has Now Invested Over $400M in Clean Power

Mark down yet another clean power project that Google plans to back. This morning, Google announced that it's providing $55 million for part of the construction of a 1.5 GW wind farm being built by Terra-Gen Power in Southern California's Mojave Desert.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher May 5, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

VIDEO: How Zipcar’s IPO Will Affect P2P Car Sharing

Zipcar's stock is still flying high after the car sharing company debuted on the Nasdaq last month. To the CEO of neighbor-to-neighbor car sharing startup RelayRides, Shelby Clark, Zipcar's IPO has shown investors that there's real money to be made in car sharing.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Colleen Taylor Apr 21, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Startups Take Sharing Beyond the Sandbox

As kids, we were all taught to share our favorite toys. At Green:Net Shelby Clark from RelayRides and Joe Gebbia from Airbnb talked about how their companies are leveraging the power of social media to take sharing into the grown-up world.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Apr 14, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Zipcar Soars in Nasdaq Debut

Combine a year in which IPOs are back and car sharing is hot and what do you get? A smash hit success. Zipcar's stock debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday at an eye-opening $30 per share, up over 60 percent from its offering price of $18.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy

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