Enterprise Rent-A-Car add 5,000 more hybrids to fleet along with "Hybrid Branches"
Here's some good news if you need to rent a car and you want to go hybrid: Enterprise Rent-A-Car has announced that it's adding 5,000 hybrids to its fleet. These cars almost double the number of hybrids currently available at Enterprise branches. The company is also designating 80 of its locations, 10 at airports, as "Hybrid Branches," meaning that they will offer a higher number of hybrids than at other locations. California, Oregon, and Texas are among the states that will get Hybrid Branches. Enterprise offers hybrid models like the Toyota Prius, the Nissan Altima, the Ford Escape and the Toyota Camry.
[Source: Enterprise]
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gorr 11:47AM (2/07/2009)
It's probably a story of subsidies, if not, nobody will pay 10 000$ more for saving 2-5$ a week
of gasoline while driving with build-in hypermiling limp car. These cars are dangerous with defective breaking, heavy weight, heavy problematics batteries, poor acceleration, poor handling, costly maintenance, poor resale value, more weight for less power.
If you want to understand the actual car crisis, you just have to remove the useless taxation put on cars, huge salaries with medicare 100$/hour, useless car engineers 3x more then needed, mandated steels, mandated platinum, mandated gasoline use, etc.
With modern production methods with actual existing technology a camaro or big cadillac can cost 15000$-25 000$ approx. A water electrolyser can replace petrol for 50% more power and eliminate pollution and fuel cost.
The future is bright with my buying bids. I won't pay for taxation. Only products from well define brand name with garantees for 12 months will do, without unnecessary taxing folks put in the transaction.
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Chris M 2:22AM (2/08/2009)
Gorr, this is a rental car company, they are not buying hybrids to save their own gas money (the customers are paying for the gas), they are doing it because the customers keep asking for hybrids. It's called "customer service" when you provide what the customers want.
But aside from pleasing customers and getting more business, there are other benefits to the rental companies. These hybrids are highly reliable, requiring less than the average amount of maintenance, and thanks to regenerative braking the brake pads last much longer, too. Finally, these cars are sold after a few years of use, and hybrids have had very low rates of depreciation, so the rental companies can get more for them as used cars.
Gorr, it is obvious you haven't driven a hybrid, The Prius is a solid reliable car with excellent brakes, good handling, average acceleration, good safety rating, excellent resale value (check Kelly Bluebook if you don't believe that) and lower than average maintenance costs. 97% of Prius owners said they'd buy it again. Oh, and that "heavy problematic battery" weighs just 100 pounds and should last over 10 years or 300,000 miles.
gorr 12:30PM (2/11/2009)
Don't interfere with my buying bids. It's me that started the trend 4 years ago. Look at what is happening now. The market is upside down, many many peoples are talking about new 'green cars' that don't exist yet except some on youtube. Billions of dollars have been spend for nothing. Trillions of dollars for military and oil have been spend for nothing, Trillions of words have been told for nothing. 70% of men and 10% of women worldwide
have decided to stop the green car and are searching for goverment protection to protect their sexual identity.
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Wes 4:43PM (4/05/2009)
Great post. But I would like to say I have been really disappointed with Enterprise lately. While I applaud their green efforts, I will not use their abuse of taxpayer money by playing victim for bailouts. The Wall Street Journal did a expose. You can read about it here:
http://digg.com/d1l2xh ;
You have to pay to get the full Wall Street Journal article.
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Wes 4:45PM (4/05/2009)
Great post. But I would like to say I have been really disappointed with Enterprise lately. While I applaud their green efforts, I will not use their abuse of taxpayer money by playing victim for bailouts. The Wall Street Journal did a expose. You can read about it here:
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/02/25/alert-enterprise-rent-a-car-may-have-fired-employees-as-fake-evidence-when-lobbing-for-bailout-money/
You have to pay to get the full Wall Street Journal article.
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