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Zipcar, the world’s leading car-sharing service, now has plug-in hybrid cars available to its members in three areas of the U.S.: Boston/Cambridge, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

Zipcar entered into a deal with Toyota to offer Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs) in the car sharing network to see how electric vehicles would fare in a large-scale car-sharing model, according to a press release released by the company through PR Newswire on January 27, 2011.

Zipcar, the world's leading car-sharing service, has more than 530,000 members and 8,000 vehicles in urban areas and college campuses throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, according to the company's web site. The company offers more than 30 makes and models of “self service” cars to members who can rent vehicles by the hour or day.