Minneapolis and St. Paul's municipally owned EV car-sharing network logged 140,000 trips in 2025
A joint city program running 168 electric vehicles and 70 curbside charging stations may be the only municipally owned car-share and charging network in the US.
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The reporting describes how Minneapolis and St. Paul launched the EV Spot Network in 2022 as part of a 2017 shared mobility plan aimed at getting 50,000 cars off local roads. According to the piece, the network — operated by nonprofit Hourcar under city contract — offers 168 electric vehicles and 70 curbside charging stations running on 100% clean energy; in 2025 alone it recorded over 52,000 charging sessions and 140,000 car-sharing trips. Roughly a fifth of users combine car-share with public transit on the same trip, and the fleet is sited to serve neighborhoods with the most zero-car households. The model — municipal ownership, nonprofit operations, equity-focused siting — gives other mid-size city pairs a replicable template.
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