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Car-Sharing Companies Offer a Less Germ-Infested Route Forward
Covid-19 has boosted short-distance, local travel for car-sharing operators.
A Volvo S40 sits in a Zipcar parking spot in Washington, D.C.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Car-sharing platforms, which have suffered during the Covid-19 lockdown, see an opportunity emerging: an increase in short-distance, local trips as U.S. consumers look for a different way of getting to work and running errands.
Executives from Turo, GetAround and ZipCar are hoping their pitch to customers—a means of travel that is cheaper than car ownership and sanitary—will also win business from public-transit users and Uber and Lyft riders.