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Business Wars Daily

Zipcar Tangles with the Feds

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Friday, October 27, and we're looking at Zipcar vs. Turo.

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Thank you. From Wondery, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this October 27th.

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Happy Friday, everybody.

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Car sharing company Zipcar has found itself in a bit of hot water.

1:11.8

Zipcar, a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, rents vehicles out by the hour or day.

1:17.6

It's not your average rental counter-experience, either. The cars are parked around cities,

1:22.1

and you can use an app to unlock them, then return them to the same location you found them.

1:27.3

But some of those vehicles,

1:28.7

it turns out, may not have been up to safety standards in the recent past. See, back in 2017,

1:34.7

the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, announced a massive vehicle recall.

1:41.1

The vehicles in question were Ford Transit vans manufactured between 2015 and 2017. The issue?

1:47.1

In as many as 373,000 vans made during those years, the coupling between the transmission and

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