Flexcar is Car Sharing - with a Green Option

I just got a disappointing email from Zip car saying that they are no longer offering car sharing in Los Angeles except on college campuses. So after they bought out Flexcar (merged as they called it) they got rid of all the cars without any warning at all.

Screw you Zipcar and the shared car you drove in on!

We had gotten rid of our second car and since November we were happy monthly members of Flexcar. There was an announcement of a happy merger in January. We got our new Zipcards from Zipcar and were shocked to find out that fees had tripled. We begrudgingly joined because it was still better than owning a second car, barely. Then a few days later we got this email canceling the service in LA except for colleges. You haven't made any friends in LA Zipcar.
-In loving memory of Flexcar
Z.


11/30/07, 11:29 AM
I wanted to share a very cool service that has started around the country for vehicle sharing. You can rent a car from Flexcar by the hour. It works great if you work from home and don't drive much but once or twice a week you need a car to run an errand because public transpo in LA is a joke.

The best deal I found was to get a membership which costs $30 a month and the cars cost $3 per hour. So a typical run to the grocery store and a friends house for 4 hours would cost $12. That includes gas, insurance and maintenance!

If you think you'll use a car less than twice a week you might go with no membership. The cars will range from $6 to $10 per hour. So for the occasional user that might work best.

GOING GREEN with Flexcar or Without

So that's cool but you also want to be environmentally responsible for the emissions you are pouring into our atmosphere. Flexcar has teamed up with TerraPass to offer a CO2 offset. On their website you can enter your car model and estimated driving range which will give you an estimated pounds of C02 you are putting out. You can pay them to help fund an offset to those emissions and you can sleep soundly at night knowing that you've helped future generations with a serious climate challenge.
Z.