The Everywhere blog

Paris is launching yet another city-share system, but this time it's not bicycles they're letting tourists and locals borrow, it's electric cars! With rising gas prices and ongoing environmental concerns it may come as no surprise this European city is spearheading an effort to keep the environment clean with an eco-friendly way of getting around town. Autolib will have 4,000 electric vehicles at its disposal and will kick off early next year according to inhabitat.com.

As if the city hadn't impressed the world enough when they launched the entirely new, self-service bicycle transit system Mikael Colville-Andersen, wrote about in his article, The Birth of Parisian Bike Culture, the surprises just keep on coming! What's next? A self-service hovercraft for weekend getaways to Aix-en-Provence?

(Photo: Smart Car in Paris, from Flickr member thingermejig's photostream.)