If you don't have a PayPal account, we’ll help you set one up. He’s always wanted a chance to explore a new city and feels really lucky to get to make San Francisco his new home. Along with this milestone, we’re excited to bring Zimride to the East After the launch of the Lyft app in May 2012 for intra-city rides, the Lyft app rapidly grew and became the focus of the company. Once you’ve submitted payment, your request will be sent to the driver who has 24 hours to accept it. If you have additional questions about Zimride or how to use Zimride please call 1-855-Zimride or email support@zimride.com. In seconds you can set up a profile, book a ride in your network, or post a ride of your own. NOVA Zimride requires an @email.vccs.edu email address for students and an @nvcc.edu email address for faculty and staff. Email it to us at community@zimride.com. Welcome to the new and improved Zimride blog! On an average ride, over 80% of the bike goes un-used by a solo biker and tandem bikes are too large for commuters in crowded cities. Thanks! Before Zimride, Jay didn’t know much about ridesharing, but since moving to SF, he now uses Zimride all the time to share a ride back to LA to hang with friends and family. Feel free to contact Jay if you have any questions about Zimride, or any recommendations of road trips he can take in and around SF at support@zimride.com . It’s easy to find passengers and coordinate your trip. If they don’t, you won”t be charged. Community bikesharing is a great way to get more people biking, but we believe that there is still substantial room for improvement. Clicking Sign Up indicates you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Check out our launch video and help us spread the word. While the creators state that there’s “no shortage of debates in the blogosphere as to whether one coast has the advantage over the other”, we at Zimride can gladly say that co-habitation between both worlds can exist!

Payouts are made 1 day after the ride is complete. He’s also excited to be a part of such a cool and diverse team of young startupers and looks forward to helping Zimride grow it’s community. One year later, thanks to the Zimride community, we’re proud to announce that we’ve doubled that mark and have passed 200 million miles shared. ridesharing is well on its way to becoming a mainstream form of transportation.

Around the same time that Zimride was born we also created another ridesharing platform, but since we were so focused on Zimride we decided to hold off on launching it.

If you have additional questions about Zimride or how to use Zimride please call 1-855-Zimride or email support@zimride.com. Today, we’re proud to introduce Zimbike—a revolutionary new way to save money, make friends, and share the ride. Thanks to all of you who participated in the Zimride Thanksgiving contest for a free iPad! Zimride by Enterprise is an online ride-matching service that easily connects drivers and passengers heading to the same area ... information into the notes section details of your trip that will help passengers or drivers know about any special requirements or information that is … The company was founded in May 2007. And being able to have people help with gas saves everyone in the long run because for me it’s $100 minimum one way. If you don't have a car, find rides where you need to go. “ By Zimriding, I met Shoshana who is now like a sister to me. …Jenn, a college student from Appalachian State University! Zimride is a private ridesharing network for the NOVA community. With 200 million miles shared on the Zimride platform, it’s safe to say that If you don't have a car, find rides where you need to go. If it’s a round-trip, you’ll get paid upon your return. The Zimride mission is to make lives better through sharing, which is why we want to make the Zimride Blog all about the stories and adventures you’ve shared with us as part of the Zimride community. Thanks to a growing Zimride community, an expanding Zimride team, and a generous round of funding, we’ve been inspired to give the Zimride Blog a makeover. Sorry! Special thanks to the Zimride driver community for helping thousands of passengers get home to celebrate Thanksgiving with their friends and family. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. But sharing is not a one way street. The Kenan-Flager Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill created an interactive infographic that compares the tech communities in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley and New York’s “Silicon Alley”. | Log in with email. Before Zimride, Jay didn’t know much about ridesharing, but since moving to SF, he now uses Zimride all the time to share a ride back to LA to hang with friends and family. Please upgrade your browser. That’s the equivalent of driving around the world 8,000 times…but more importantly, that’s a savings of over $100 million in car expenses. Zimride by Enterprise, the industry leading rideshare service, helps organizations establish easy to use, private, social networks for ridesharing. Zimride at NOVA helps you offer or request rides for commutes, road trips, and popular events. ” — Farida N “ My Zimride not only by got me home faster and more conveniently, but also enriched me intellectually. Zimride by Enterprise Holdings is an American carpool program that matches inter-city drivers and passengers through social networking services.It is offered to universities and businesses as a matchmaking service. In fact, we’d like to begin this exchange right now by introducing one of our newest members of the Zimride Team: Jay recently moved up from Los Angeles to be the Community Manager at Zimride. Using Facebook adds credibility to your profile, We’ll never post anything to your wall without asking first, We preserve all your Facebook privacy settings. We’re a new spin on ridesharing, using social networks to enable real connections. Our co-founders, John Zimmer (East Coast native) and Logan Green (West Coast native), have been working together in Northern California since 2007 to develop the future of ridesharing. Have a story to share? ” With Zimride profiles, you can check out interests, music tastes, and feedback before you share a ride. Find the ride you want, click “Book it” and follow the simple steps to confirm your booking. Questions? So we want to offer our stories in return and invite you to get to know more about the Zimride crew and what we’ve been up to. shared milestone last July. We knew that eventually we’d have to expand our focus and move beyond cars. With Zimride, you can find NOVA friends, classmates, and coworkers going the same way you are. We require facebook to log in, and your browser does not support it. You can get a full refund if your driver is a no-show by simply notifying Zimride from your account page. Check out profiles and reviews to determine who your next passengers will be. I live 6 hours away from school so I thought it’d be a cool way to meet people and give them a ride if they needed one since it’s such a long drive. Zimride is a fun and easy way to share the seats in your car or catch a ride. Ride payouts are made via PayPal. If you have a car, split costs by offering rides. Sign up with email | Already have an account. We had an amazing response with over 16,000 rides posted between Oct. 15th and Thanksgiving. Zimride not only improves the quality of student life – offering students a way to save time and money, to meet new people and an easy solution for traveling home for the holidays or weekend trips – but it also benefits the university itself.
If you have a car, split costs by offering rides. Zimride at NOVA helps you offer or request rides for commutes, road trips, and popular events. The result: a critical mass of users sharing rides, saving money and reducing resource consumption. East Coast Launch and 100 Million Dollars Saved, Since our 2007 launch, Zimride has grown steadily hitting our 100 million miles, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zimride Stories from the Road: Snow Buddies, Stories from the Road: Summer Event Recap. Coast, beginning with yesterday’s launch of the New York to Washington DC route. Thanks to the Zimride community of drivers and passengers for making this launch and milestone possible!

Due to changes in the economy and the general shift toward alternative forms of transportation we believe that now is the ideal time to launch our newest product: Zimbike.
Feel free to contact Jay if you have any questions about Zimride, or any recommendations of road trips he can take in and around SF at support@zimride.com .