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I-GO adds new location at Oak Park Village Hall

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

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We’re excited to announce I-GO’s newest Oak Park location at Oak Park Village Hall at 123 W. Madison St. Car #4599, a silver, 2010 Toyota Prius Hybrid, is now located on the Lombard side of the Village Hall parking lot.

I-GO is also offering new membership applicants in Oak Park a special discount: Join now for only $25 and receive $25 in free driving (a total of $75 in savings). To get this special discount, Oak Park residents just need to enter the promo code VILLAGEHALL in the “Promotions” section of our online application form.

Since 2006, I-GO has been making its low-emission car sharing vehicles available to hundreds of savvy Oak Park residents. Besides our newest location at Village Hall, there are three other locations serving Oak Park:

Read all about it

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Check out the newest I-GO newsletter! If you’re not a subscriber on our mailing list, you can read it here.

Maybe this will tempt you: You’ll find out how we’ve just upgraded our mobile reservations site for smartphones.

Since you really should be on our mailing list (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), if you aren’t yet, it’s easy to sign up right here. You’ll receive the latest updates on our car sharing service, interesting profiles on our business members, upcoming community and cultural events we participate in, new cars and locations, and oh so much more.

Get a move on with I-GO! – htt…

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Get a move on with I-GO! – http://eepurl.com/6zbE

I-GO profiled in Huffington Post

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Rod Shrader, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago, blogged about I-GO in the Huffington Post yesterday. He cites the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s development of our car sharing service as a leading example of “social entrepreneurship,” a significant trend he’s seen gathering speed among the business school students of today. To wit:

“Here in Chicago one of the nation’s most successful ventures in social entrepreneurship was developed through the Center for Neighborhood Technology, which brought the idea of car sharing to the Chicago region. The center’s vision is that everyone deserves access to safe, affordable transportation. By setting up I-Go car sharing, a system of short term car rentals, with easily available cars located throughout the region, I-Go tapped into a lively market and has built a self-sustaining business, with profits plowed back into making the system more widely available. Last year, for example, I-Go innovated a way of combining car sharing and CTA ridership on one smart card, the nation’s first joint venture between a public transit agency and a car sharing service.”

We appreciate the coverage, Rod! And we heartily acknowledge the foresight our colleagues at CNT demonstrated in launching I-GO back in 2002.

Onward!

CNT & I-GO mentioned in Huffin…

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

CNT & I-GO mentioned in Huffington Post yesterday for social entrepreneurship excellence! http://huff.to/aeNlbI

Bear necessities

Monday, September 13th, 2010

This commercial for the Nissan Leaf electric car — slated to go on sale in the U.S. in December — ought to melt the hearts of even the most stubborn global-warming naysayers. We’re pulling for you, polar bears!

Wow, what a great Nissan Leaf …

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Wow, what a great Nissan Leaf electric car commercial. We’re pulling for you, polar bears. http://bit.ly/bZLQv3

Transportation animation

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

If this isn’t the coolest, cutest video we’ve ever seen promoting electric cars, we don’t know what is.

Riff on this jazz cats: $25 to…

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Riff on this jazz cats: $25 to join I-GO & $25 in free driving in honor of Chicago Jazz Fest. That’s a great combo. http://bit.ly/cG4tEy