Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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Airtrax omnidirectional wheels

Submitted by admin on December 26, 2009 – 7:30 amNo Comment

a5a65c414birtrax.jpg Airtrax omnidirectional wheels

Remember the adage of not reinventing the wheel? Well Airtrax decided to go against common sense by coming up with omnidirectional wheels that strangely enough, actually work! These will target industrial vehicles by rolling forward, back, sideways and diagonally. Hmmm, it would be interesting to see these make an appearance on passenger cars as it would surely go great lengths in helping those who suffer from difficulty in parallel parking, especially in tighter spots.

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