PhillyCarShare adds cars, 55,000th member

PhillyCarShare will be adding three new car models shortly: The Acura TL, Scion xD, and Toyota Corolla. The xD and Corolla are meant to temporarily replace hybrids leaving the fleet, and the TL will be a new addition to the upscale line that PhillyCarShare has.
Clayton Lane, AICP and Deputy Executive Director of PhillyCarShare, says that [...]

Odds and Ends - July 20, 2008

This weekly post summarizes, and occasionally lightly discusses, some of the more minor pieces of carsharing news throughout the week. In this issue:

PhillyCarShare retires last of their Beetle Convertibles
HourCar adding 10 more Priuses over next two years
CTA gives 45 more El parking spots to Zipcar and I-GO Chicago

Now the full stories:

PhillyCarShare finally seeing a negative to high gas prices

PhillyCarShare, which has grown exponentially in the last several years, and has said that the higher gas goes, the more their membership ranks swell, has told their members about a negative they are now seeing to high gas prices, other than the price. In July’s newsletter, they mentioned this:
Here’s the inside scoop: we all know [...]