Next year, I-GO Car Sharing will add to its fleet 30 electric vehicles that run entirely on renewable energy. For the past two weeks, I-GO has been one of the few groups in North America to test drive the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, a zero-emissions electric vehicle (EV) currently sold only in Japan.

While I-GO had the keys to the i-MiEV, we invited political leaders, funders and journalists out to preview the car and take it for a spin. Check out who took it for a spin here. Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune transportation reporters Mary Wisniewski and Jon Hilkevitch recently wrote about I-GO and their impressions of the i-MiEV here and here.

I-GO shared the car with its members as well. I-G0 members were invited to preview the i-MiEV on July 27, at I-GO’s Wicker Park office. Over 25 members came by our office to meet the i-MiEV.

CNT founded I-GO in 2002. As an environmentally driven non-profit, I-GO is working to catalyze a set of transportation innovations that make it feasible and desirable for Chicago residents to get around conveniently and economically without having to own a car. At the same time, I-GO membership helps reduce driving and cuts global warming emissions. Adding electric vehicles to its fleet makes the already-green I-GO that much greener.

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