Recent years have seen the creation of many Zipcar competitors. Traditional car rental companies have replicated Zipcar's short-term car rentals with programs including Hertz on Demand, Enterprise's Enterprise CarShare, UHaul's Uhaul Car Share, and Daimler's Car2Go.[8] Regional competitors exist, such as City CarShare in the San Francisco Bay Area, I-GO in Chicago, among others.[9] Peer-to-peer car sharing startups include RelayRides and Getaround. Zipcar has even inspired many international clones such as eHi in China,[10] Zazcar in Brazil,[11] and Zoom, India's first car-sharing organization.[12]
In the third quarter of 2007, Zipcar merged with Seattle-based rival Flexcar to create a nation-wide car rental company.[13] The company's IPO was in April 2011. Zipcar common stock traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ZIP" until it was acquired by Avis.[14][1