Car clubs

Making car sharing accessible and sustainable in Hackney

We know that access to a vehicle is important. So, we offer car-sharing services as a convenient alternative to owning a private vehicle. This supports our commitment to:

• reduce traffic
• improve air quality
• help residents live car free or low car lifestyles

As of 2025, Hackney has:

• 180 active ‘back to bay’ car club vehicles
• approximately 80 floating ‘flex’ vehicles

These vehicles operate across 2 car club providers: Zipcar and Enterprise.

We aim to make car clubs easily accessible, with the goal of having a car club bay within a 3-minute walk of every household.

We also plan to expand the car club network in Hackney to include more electric vehicles. This is in line with our target that 50% of car club vehicles will be emission-free at the tailpipe by the end of 2026.

Round-trip or station-based car clubs

You need to return round-trip vehicles to their original parking bay when you’ve finished using them.

There are over 180 back to base car club vehicles in Hackney operated by Zipcar and Enterprise.

Membership

Enterprise Car Club:

• enquiries@enterprisecarclub.co.uk
• 0113 394 3999

Join Zipcar:

• services@zipcar.co.uk
• 0333 240 9000

You can use the cars and vans twenty-four hours a day, 7 days a week. They can be booked by the hour, by the day or for as long as you want. You can book a bay online, by phone, in advance or at the last minute.

One-way car clubs

There are 3 main differences between one-way and round-trip car sharing services:

• you don’t need to make a reservation
• there’s no return point and no fixed return time, so you can take the vehicle on one-way trips
• you can park the vehicle in any resident or pay and display parking bay – there are no designated car club bays

Only Zipcar offers one-way car club journeys with membership of Zipcar flex. Signing up for either Zipcar round-trip or Zipcar Flex will give members access to both options. 

You can park Zipcar Flex vehicles in any valid parking bays in Hackney, excluding dedicated bays such as accessible bays for disabled people, doctor bays, other car club bays, electric vehicle charging bays, etc.

Car club parking bays in Hackney

Car club cars are placed in their own on-street parking bays and these are designated with the wording ‘Car Club Only’ on the road. These bays will be enforced by our civil enforcement officers.

The location of these parking bays have been selected so as many people in the borough as possible can have access to a car club car.

The below map shows the locations of all car club vehicles in Hackney, who operates them and whether the vehicle is an electric.

Map of Hackney’s car club parking bays