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Enterprise adds 5000 hybrid cars to their rental fleet
People are apparently not renting cars as often as they used to. But while some car rental firms are closing up shop, others are taking those lemons and making "green lemonade". Enterprise rent-a-car just announced a massive expansion to their hybrid rental fleet.
The chain is adding 5000 new hybrid vehicles, and expanding their "hybrid branch" lineup. Already, 27 Enterprise locations offer online and phone reservations of a hybrid vehicle, and that number is set to rise to 80 within a couple of months.
The Enterprise hybrid lineup offers the Ford Escape, Toyota Prius and the Toyota Camry.
Sadly, being green comes at a price. A regular airport rental with Enterprise (for a standard car) is about $30/day, but to protect the environment in a hybrid, you'll pay about $70/day. Ouch.
Still, it's nice to see a major rental company making a difference, and it is always great when customers at least have the option to rent green.
Filed under: Transportation, Ecotourism, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vilius Feb 13th 2009 11:01AM
This is a very nice and encouraging example of investment into ecotourism. I, as a customer who doesn't rent a car very often and have never owned a hybrid car, would willingly afford myself renting a hybrid car and spending an extra 40 euros per day, just to see what it is like. I, as an employee of a Lithuania car rental company in Vilnius http://www.autobanga.lt , am also looking forward to adding first hybrid cars to our car garage. In my opinion, this really is a promising car rental companies strategy in this "wrong economy" period.