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Electric car-sharing program coming to Chattanooga

Proposed partner site locations for charging stations

• CARTA: Lookout Mountain Incline Railway• CARTA: Shuttle Park South• CARTA: Shuttle Park North• CARTA: Shuttle Park North Shore• CBL & Associates Properties Inc.: Hamilton Place mall• CBL & Associates Properties Inc.: Northgate Mall• Chattanooga Airport• Chattanooga Theatre Center• CHI Memorial Hospital: Memorial Main Hospital• City of Chattanooga: Vine Street at Douglas• City of Chattanooga: Warner Park/Chattanooga Zoo• City of Chattanooga: W. 11th St. at Market/Broad• Erlanger Heath System: Erlanger East• Hamilton County Tennessee River Park: Chattanooga State• Kinsey Probasco Hays: Flying Squirrel/Crash Pad• Southern Adventist University• United Methodist Neighborhood Centers Inc.: The Bethlehem CenterAdditional sites are still under evaluation.Proposed partner site locations for solar generators• CARTA Main Facility• Chattanooga Airport• Southern Adventist University

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Learn more about Chattanooga’s electric car-sharing program at greencommuter.org/chattanooga

Any Chattanoogan with a clean driving record and a smartphone soon will be able to rent a Nissan Leaf for $9 an hour under a new electric car-sharing program expected to launch in about a month.

The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the city’s bus service, announced it got a $3 million grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority to establish an electric car-sharing service. It will work a lot like the Bike Chattanooga blue-and-yellow rental bicycles, with the swipe of a credit card at various locations around downtown.

“It just adds another transit option,” said Brent Matthews, CARTA’s director of parking, who thinks there’s a growing market for those who only occasionally need a car. “You’ve got more and more people moving downtown. A lot of folks are going to one vehicle.”