Nissan and Europcar announce new partnership for electric car rentals
Hey look, another new Renault-Nissan partnership to promote EVs. Today, a new alliance with Europcar was announced that will make electric vehicles available for customer rentals starting in 2010. The car will first be available in Europe (specifically, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom) as well as Australia and New Zealand. Further expansions are already on the drawing board. Europcar says it wants to become the first major rent-a-car company to offer EVs. It remains unclear whether the partnership will be for standard, long-term rentals or shorter, car-sharing-like rentals; Europcar does both. We know it's not the first car sharing program, nor the first to use electric vehicles, or even the first EV car sharing service announced today, but we're happy to hear about it anyway.
[Source: Nissan Spain]
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Arnold Schneider 7:14PM (5/26/2009)
Thats great news, because people then can experience and test electric cars before they buy them. That builds trust in consumers and thus will speed up the transition.
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DasBoese 10:01PM (5/26/2009)
I think the majority of electric car rentals would be of the short-time nature.
They are a good solution for people going to business meetings and such, using rental cars mainly for the trip from the airport or train station to their destination and back.
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DasBoese 10:03PM (5/26/2009)
I think the majority of electric car rentals would be of the short-time nature.
They are a good solution for people going to business meetings and such, using rental cars mainly for the trip from the airport or train station to their destination and back.
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Carlos 4:10AM (5/27/2009)
I think that´s a great idea and ideal to introduce the electric cars in the markets with a small money spend, the best advertising campain.
If the people know the cars, and they´ve got a good price, it´s a great first steep.
Go ahead and good luck.
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