Europcar is teaming up with Nissan to offer electric vehicles for hire. Low emission rental vehicles are nothing new for Europcar (or many other rental agencies, for that matter); models such as the Toyota Prius have been part of its 225,000 strong fleet for years. However, it seems to be the first time that a rental company and car manufacturer are jointly offering a design that’s not just low emission, but no emission.
After introducing electric versions of existing models, Nissan plans to develop entirely new models that will be made available through Europcar. The company hopes to offer a wide range of zero-emission vehicles at all the usual rental locations like airports, train stations and local kiosks by the end of 2010. Besides helping Europcar stand apart from other rental companies and providing Nissan with a guaranteed market for a large number of electric vehicles, the alliance will give consumers the opportunity to try out an unfamiliar product in a real-world setting. (Related: Europcar lists CO2 emissions on customer invoices.)
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Spotted by: Raymond Kollau
This is great, and you've likely stated the "first" correctly. However, zipcar had 5 all electric vehicles in their fleet back in 2002.
Yep! We've been big fans of Zipcar for years. However, Zipcar is for car *sharing*—people have to sign up as members first. Europcar is a regular rental company, which means a much larger group of people will (hopefully) rent electric vehicles while travelling, etc.
My answer was that I'd start emailing everyone I knew about it then get on all the social networking site and start messaging all his friends telling them about it. diet plans.
regards,