Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Sharing

A Decidedly Dim View of Electric Vehicles

By Matthew Roth | | 15 Comments
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are all the rage these days and the press seems to treat them as a palliative for all that ails our fossil-fuel-driven, automobile-dependent transportation network.  The New York Times has fallen in love with Better Place, an electric-car battery maker that seeks to replace much of the U.S. fleet of vehicles with […]

Living a Car-Free Life

By Cheryl Brinkman | | 3 Comments
Editor’s note: Yesterday we asked readers to write and share their stories about car-sharing. This is the first installment. We’d like to know how you feel about car-sharing services, whether they’ve changed your transportation choices and travel behavior, whether you’ve sold your personal car, or held off on buying a new vehicle. Feel free to […]

Does Car Sharing Reduce Your Driving?

By Matthew Roth | | 15 Comments
A spirited debate broke out a few weeks back on the Car-free Living listserv run by Livable City about the merits of car sharing. Does it reduce driving and car ownership or increase the impetus to drive among the car-free? One poster who didn’t own his own car called car-sharing a gateway drug that encouraged […]