Must be something in the air. We’re revamping our site, and just noticed that so, too, has Metra. If you were familiar with their old one, man, are you gonna love Metra’s new, improved version. Sooo much better.
Metra updates its website too
November 6th, 2009
I-GO web site gets makeover, promotes new discount cars
November 3rd, 2009
You may have noticed our web site looks a lot different today. That’s because we’ve spent a lot of time reorganizing it, editing and updating content, and tweaking the design a bit here and there. We’re not done with it just yet, but we think it’s an improvment, and we hope our members and visitors to our site agree.
The member log-in is now located in the upper right corner of every page on the site, including, of course, the home page.
The News page on the site now features our blog, media coverage, and various social media interaction (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Vimeo). We’ve also add a new business membership online application program that lets companies and their employees sign up directly on our site. (Formerly, this was a person-to-person offline process.)
And check out our new Discount Cars and Damage Fee Waiver programs, too.
The Discount Cars program is a real bargain: $1 off an array of cars we designate at the beginning of every month. Car sharing is all about saving you money, and we hope this benefits your bank account even more.
Hope that you like the site’s new look, and it’s easier to find what you’re looking for.
Suburu supports I-GO
November 2nd, 2009
Big thanks to Chicago’s Mid City Suburu for generously providing I-GO with a beautiful, new, 2010 Suburu Legacy mid-size sedan. Great to see them supporting car sharing in Chicago. Car was dropped off at our office last week and will be located at Lakeshore East’s awesome Aqua tower, 225 N. Columbus Dr. Need to show a business client around town? Got a date to impress? This’ll do.
I-GO expands into Des Plaines
November 2nd, 2009
We will be continuing with our suburban expansion by adding two cars in Des Plaines in November. A Toyota Prius hybrid and Honda Insight hybrid will be going into City Parking Lot 9 on the south side of Miner Street, between Lee and Graceland Streets.
Our 13,000-plus members have 24/7 access to more than 200 hybrid and low-emission vehicles in Chicago, Oak Park, Evanston, Skokie, Forest Park, and now Des Plaines as well.
Mayor Daley gets a charge of out I-GO
October 12th, 2009
On Saturday, Oct. 10, I-GO Car Sharing was prominently featured in a high-profile press conference and exhibition hosted by Magellan Development Group at its new, high-profile Aqua tower in Chicago’s Lakeshore East community. The Aqua, an 82-story mixed-use structure designed by architect Jeanne Gang with many environmentally beneficial elements, includes the Midwest’s first electric vehicle charging station open to the public.
Mayor Richard Daley participated in the charging station demonstration of a plug-in electric Prius provided by I-GO. The new station adds to the progressive efforts of newly created Carbon Day Automotives, a Chicago firm employing the Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network of electric charging stations. A new infrastructure for electric electric vehicles is being created to deal with the fact that virtually every auto manufacturer has announced plans to produce plug-in vehicles in the next one to three years in response to concerns over high gas prices, oil dependence, and the impact of climate change on the environment.
The six-charger station at Aqua will accommodate up to 24 plug-in vehicles. To access it, and others in the ChargePoint/Carbon Day Automotive network, drivers of plug-in vehicles will be required to subscribe to a plan that will provide convenient and affordable access to all public charging stations.
All plug-in stations are connected by computer network to provide drivers with best access to outlets. Drivers can access locations based on the navigation system in their vehicles, computers, telephones, or smartphones. The system no only identifies the closest stations but tells subscribers which are idle and which are occupied.
The event was significant for another reason as well. It provides an impressive prototype for the kind of sustainable-energy infrastructure Chicago will be building with funds awarded via the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Clean Cities Petroleum Reduction Technologies grant program. Recently, Mayor Daley announced, Chicago was the recipient of $15 million in stimulus funding allocated toward this purpose. I-GO is among the partners committed to transforming Chicago’s sustainable transportation, along with ComEd, Carbon Day, Magellan, the City of Chicago’s Department of the Environment, and Yellow Cab, all of whom also took part in the Aqua event.
I-GO has two plug-in electric vehicles in its metro-wide fleet, which is entirely comprised of highly fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles. Hybrid gas-electric vehicles account for nearly half of the organization’s fleet. The non-profit plans to add many more plug-ins in the near future and work in tandem with the imminent solar-panel-powered electric charging station network to help lead the way toward greener mobility in the Chicago area.
This video includes both the press conference proceedings as well as interviews with I-GO CEO Sharon Feigon and Carbon Day Automotive’s business development manager, Brian Levin, recorded earlier at the latter org’s Carbon Day Festival in Lincoln Park on Sept. 15.
I-GO converted plug-in featured in Consumer Guide Automotive
October 9th, 2009
A reporter from Consumer Guide Automotive featured I-GO’s converted Prius plug-in electric car in his Test Drive column. Check out what he has to say about these cars, which are still quite rare (for now).
I-GO adds SUV in Uptown
October 6th, 2009
Uptown I-GOers will dig this: We recently added a Honda CR-V compact SUV at the Bridgeview Bank location, 4753 N. Broadway, next to the Prius and Civic already there. Once that new Target opens down the street, you can really go nuts loading up this baby. Book it now while it’s still got that new-car smell.
I-GO green-cleaning entrepreneur on Chicago Tonight
October 2nd, 2009
Tanya Killian, the dynamic entrepreneur behind the local green-friendly cleaning service I-GO uses, was featured on Chicago Tonight yesterday in a segment on microcredit loans. Killian’s company, WashMe-EnviGreen, handles our entire fleet. I-GO makes a cameo appearance. If microcredit can help such hard-working, passionate folks like Tanya, we think it’s a concept worth extending and building upon.
Congrats, Tanya!
Northwestern U: I-GO’s got class
September 29th, 2009
Wildcats rules. Especially when they write about us.
I-GO wins Illinois Environmental Leadership Award!
September 25th, 2009
The Illinois Environmental Council, which provides a forum for statewide environmentalists in Springfield and promotes sound environmental laws and policies, honored I-GO Car Sharing at its 7th annual Environmental Leadership Dinner, Sept. 24, at Hotel InterContinental Chicago. I-GO was one of three recipients of the Environmental Leadership Award, along with 18th District Illinois State Rep. Julie Hamos and the Austin-Wide Parent Network’s joint initiative with the Healthy Schools Campaign. The keynote speaker was no slouch either: Jon Carson, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. I-GO got the nod for being “a successful social enterprise that is reducing the individual and societal costs of driving.”
