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Reserve an HOURCAR when you need it, drive it where you want to, let someone else worry about car payments, parking, insurance, gas, and maintenance, enjoy a local nonprofit business, and be an environmental superstar. At the same time!

HOURCAR members who sell their cars or avoid buying new ones save thousands of dollars every year.

HOURCAR offers 39 vehicles in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and is growing to 70 vehicles over the next few months. Find out where your nearest HOURCAR lives, and sign up to drive today.

Latest News

Streets.MN Podcast #34 – The Future of Car Sharing with Christopher Bineham
May 13, 2013

This week’s podcast is a conversation with Christopher Bineham, program manager for Hourcar, a local nonprofit car sharing operator in the Twin Cities.

City approves bringing car sharing to the streets
May 10, 2013

Car sharing is coming to the streets of Minneapolis.

The City Council on Friday signed off on a two-year pilot program that will allow several car sharing companies to leave vehicles at on-street parking spots.

City leaders hope that boosting the number of vehicles and bringing them out in the open — shared cars now live in private ramps — will convince city residents to ditch their own rides.

Transportation committee chair Sandy Colvin Roy said the expanded car sharing could begin this summer.

The original plan granted the on-street spots exclusively to German company Car2Go, wh

HOURCAR Needs Your Help
May 1, 2013

We need your help. During our current 31-vehicle expansion, we’d like to locate several new HOURCAR hubs in convenient curbside spots around Minneapolis. After more than two years of discussion, the City of Minneapolis has told us that this will not be an option.

At the same time, Minneapolis is about to sign a contract with car2go, the one-way car rental service of Daimler AG, manufacturer of the Mercedes-Benz and Smart model cars.

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