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Car sharing company Zipcar has responded to the Toyota Prius recall by shutting down rentals of that particular model until the brake concerns have been addressed appropriately by Toyota. How. Zipcar launched its first all-electric car-share pod in central London in 2009 with a converted plug-in hybrid Prius and an all-electric Citroën C1. Car sharing service provider Zipcar announced today the introduction of eight Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs) into its network, that are now available to Zipcar members in Boston.
Zipcar Inc., a car-sharing service, has introduced eight Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs) into the Zipcar network, in an effort to further test and evaluate plug-in hybrid technology and gain increased intelligence on how electric vehicles (EVs) can fit into a large-scale car-sharing model. The Prius PHVs are now available to Zipcar members in Boston/Cambridge, San Francisco and. Zipcar had previously worked with San Francisco to test a plug-in Prius in its Bay Area fleet in 2009.
That car, using a plug-in conversion module manufactured by A123 Systems of Watertown, Mass., achieved 30 to 40 miles of purely electric travel before the car's hybrid gasoline-electric power train kicked in. Toyota's expectations for its electric-drive system are more modest, with a. Car sharing service Zipcar will be adding Toyota Prius plug.
Learn about Zipcar monthly or annual rental car rates and find a membership that fits your lifestyle. Members can reserve cars by the hour or day. Toyota actually has some 160 Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles being distributed to different organization nationwide.
One you might be more familiar with, even than Zipcar, is Hertz Rental Car. In my recent 2011-2012 experience, ZipCar cars are pretty new and well-maintained so your Zip Prius likely was a new, low-mileage vehicle that would have been a candidate for rescue rather than junking - hence the $$$ spent to get it healthy.
