Zipcar

What is Zipcar?

Zipcar is an American membership-based car sharing company providing automobile reservations to its members, billable by the hour or day. Zipcar was founded in 2000 by Cambridge MA. As of September 2011, it has 650,000 members which the company refers to as "Zipsters". Zipcar offers more than 30 makes and models of self-service vehicles by the hour or day.

What Zipcar application does?

Being a Zipcar subscriber makes car sharing a snap, and if you’re one of the 275,000 or so Zipsters out there you can choose a car, reserve it and even turn it on using an iPhone. It’s a whole lot easier than trying to navigate the Zipcar website on your phone. The interface is straightforward and the remote starting feature is a thing of beauty. This free app is a must-have for frequent Zipcar users.

You can download the application here: Zipcar