Company type | Business |
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Industry | Carsharing |
Genre | Public Transport |
Founded | 2004 Melbourne, Australia |
Founder | Monique Conheady (co) |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
Area served | Melbourne |
Services | Carsharing |
Parent | The Hertz Corporation |
Divisions | Hertz Australia |
Website | flexicar.com.au |
Flexicar is a Melbourne membership-based carsharing service owned by Hertz. [1] The company provides automobile reservations to its members, billable by the hour or day.
Flexicar was co-founded in 2004 by Monique Conheady and five other partners. In 2008, Conheady was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship to investigate public transport systems all over the world that use the latest technology and incorporate new forms of transport like bicycle sharing. [2]
Flexicar has been a partner of Honda in 2009. Honda provided two Honda Civic Hybrids, a low fuel emission car, to Flexicar as an initiative for sustainable driving. [3]
In 2010, Flexicar won an award for Transportation, Warehousing and Logistics – Mindful Movement (supported by Banksia Environmental Foundation). [4]
Flexicar has won and been a finalist in several environmental awards including: