Electric car-sharing program launches in Chattanooga

Through the car-sharing program, drivers can rent a Leaf, which has a range of about 90 to 100 miles on a charge, for $9 an hour or $45 a day. Applicants need to go online to Green Commuter's website and prove they have a clean driving record and pay a $25 application fee and $50 annual membership fee (which for a limited time will be provided as a $50 driving credit.)

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Only about a dozen cars are expected to be operational tomorrow at a limited number of stations. Eventually, 20 Leafs will be available for rental by such users as downtown dwellers who don't own cars and families that have downsized to one car.

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This is the first-ever launch of a car-sharing program by Green Commuter, a Los Angeles-based startup business that was chosen by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the city's bus service, which funded the program through a $3 million grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority. CARTA will equip some of the electric car charging stations with solar panels that will feed electricity into EPB's power grid.

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