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The largest North American car-sharing company — Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar — has more than 70,000 customers and nearly 2,000 vehicles in 12 states — including New York, Massachusetts, California and the District of Columbia as well as Toronto, Ontario. Its Rhode Island presence is limited to Brown University, where two cars are available to some 150 members at a parking lot on Brook Street, just south of Waterman.“We’re creating a service that is far better than owning a car in a city,” said Matthew Malloy, vice president of marketing and sales operations.On the West Coast, Seattle-based Flexcar has vehicles available at locations in 8 cities – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Washington and Atlanta.Flexcar currently has more than 700 vehicles — 35 percent of them hybrid Honda Civics or Toyota Priuses — and about 40,000 subscribers, Williams said. He that in cities where public transportation is good, subscribers use the cars to get out of town. In cities, which are spread out and where public transportation is not so good, “it is more convenient to get one to get from one side of town to the other, to visit friends, see movies.”

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