About Renting a Hybrid Car
Renting a hybrid car is becoming easier and easier but still poses many challenges, namely availability. Hybrid Rental Car was established as a source of information for those who want to rent hybrid cars whether it be for business or pleasure. As of mid-2008, hybrid rental car found 4 companies that rented hybrid cars:
Budget Rental Car offers the Toyota Prius and Nissan Altima hybrids at many of our locations. Hybrid Rental Car is currently working to obtain an exact list of cities Budget Rental Car rents hybrid cars. If they have a hybrid available at your rental location, you will have the option of selecting it in Step 2 of their online reservation process. Click here to go to Budget’s site. You will need to begin the reservation process by filling out the form with a city. As previously mentioned, on step 2, just scroll down and look for the Toyota Prius or Nissan Altima hybrid picture and click on it. When we looked last, rates were competitive in the Los Angeles area. Click here to go to Budget’s site.
-Fox Rent a Car
Fox Rent a Car rents hybrid cars in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco and Orange County. They have plans to expand their hybrid fleet as demand increases but currently, the aforementioned cities are the only places where they rent hybrid cars. That said, they have a diverse fleet of hybrid vehicles for rent including, the Toyota Prius, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid, and the Ford Escape Hybrid.
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Enterprise Rental Car
From Enterprise Rental Car’s website: “We have the world’s largest fleet of FlexFuel vehicles — 73,000 cars and trucks that have the ability to burn E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline that, according to the U.S. EPA, can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 20 percent. Nationally, we are actively deploying as many of our FlexFuel vehicles as possible near E85 fueling stations. We have also formed a partnership with General Motors, one of the leading manufacturers of FlexFuel vehicles, and VeraSun, one of the leading producers of ethanol, to help expand the marketplace opportunities for this alternative fuel and engine technology.
We have about 4000 gas/electric hybrid vehicles systemwide — and we’ll take as many as we can get from the manufacturers.”
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You can also read more about Enterprise’s efforts to offer hybrid cars for rent here.
Hertz recently announced that (June 2007) that it will a add 3400 Toyota Priuses to it’s fleet beginning in June 2007. This is an epic milestone for being able to rent a hybrid car. The new Priuses will be available nationwide though there will be a coastal bias to the way Hertz will make the hybrids available for rent.
Check back soon for updates as we at hybrid rental car keep a watch on hybrid cars.