Zipcar Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Pop-Up Block Party

Associated Press

25-06-2025

BOSTON, MA - June 25, 2025 ( NEWMEDIAWIRE ) - Ahead of the official start to summer, Zipcar, the world's leading car-sharing network headquartered in Boston, celebrated its 25th anniversary with a pop-up block party, creating space for people, not cars. Through sharing a Zipcar, up to 13 personally-owned vehicles are eliminated from city streets, reducing congestion, parking competition and carbon emissions helping to create cleaner, greener cities nationwide. As a tribute to its continued innovation and service to communities, the City of Boston declared June 16th 'Zipcar Day,' coinciding with the day Zipcars first rolled into Boston 25 years ago.
'There is no other mobility company in the U.S. that has successfully pioneered and flourished like Zipcar. We are here after 25 years, with more miles to go, because of our strong partnerships with cities, businesses, colleges and university campuses in Boston and in cities nationwide,' said Angelo Adams, President of Zipcar. 'Fewer cars on city streets means less traffic, less parking competition (imagine no Southie parking savers?), and fewer carbon emissions. We estimate that Zipcar keeps about 8,500 cars off the streets of Boston (enough cars to fill the Prudential Parking lot nearly three times).'
Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2000 (before smartphones, social media, ride-hailing and electric vehicles), Zipcar pioneered car sharing in the United States and has reinvented how cities move by providing convenient access to a vehicle. Driven by the desire to make access to a Zipcar as easy and as convenient as using your own, Zipcar was one of the first to apply a subscription model to platform technology that provides access instead of ownership. Today, Zipcar provides equitable, sustainable transportation for cities, universities, and businesses nationwide who rely on Zipcar to help reach climate change goals and serve low-income and environmental justice communities.
Overheard on the block
'Twenty-five years ago, only 50% of Bostonians had access to the internet, most through their work, and only 25% of adults owned a cell phone. Zipcar was the first example of the Internet of Things,' said Robin Chase, co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar. 'Zipcar has fundamentally transformed the way we move around cities. Zipcar's simple service, renting cars by the hour or the day, changed how we conceive of innovation and transportation. Now, entrepreneurs around the world have built for the multi-modal lifestyle, and it's changed how much parking cities require, how much space we dig up on our roads and on our curbs.'
Tiffany Chu, Mayor Wu's Chief of Staff and former Zipcar employee, proclaimed June 16, 2025, 'Zipcar Day' on behalf of Michelle Wu, Mayor of the City of Boston, and remarked, 'You don't see a lot of startups grow past 25 years and become a sustainable business model.'
To celebrate and help urbanites access a car, new members can join and book a Zipcar in minutes with a month on Zipcar using 'MONTHOFF.'
About Zipcar
Zipcar is the world's leading car-sharing network, driven by a mission to enable simple and responsible urban living. With its wide variety of self-service vehicles available by the hour, day or week, Zipcar operates in urban areas and university campuses in hundreds of cities, towns, and universities. Zipcar is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, Inc., a provider of mobility solutions. More information is available at www.zipcar.com.
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