Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Car sharing to come to Univ.

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Starting today, Yalies will be able to rent cars on an hourly basis from Zipcar Inc., a car-sharing company that allows customers to walk up to vehicles and drive them away with little more than a membership card.

Zipcar, which has entered into a three-year partnership with Yale, will station six cars around campus available for self-service use 24 hours a day. Customers use a company-issued card — which relies on the same radio-frequency technology as a Yale ID — to unlock and use the Zipcar-owned vehicles for an hourly rate. All gas, insurance and maintenance costs are included...

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