If you’re travelling somewhere on holiday or on business in the near future and you’ll need to hire a car – then why not make that hire car a Hybrid car – or maybe even an all-electric vehicle if you don’t need to travel too far?
Most of the world’s major hire car companies now hire out eco cars as a mater of course – and hiring one can be a really great way to try one out if you remain a little nervous about green car technology.
It’s particularly useful if you’re travelling on business. This is because you aren’t paying for the car yourself (!) but also because companies aren’t just making efforts to go green these days; more than that, they’re making every effort they possibly can to be seen to be moving in a carbon neural, environmentally friendly way.
So the hiring of eco cars by execs will very probably be warmly welcomed by most large corporations.
This is also an ideal way of doing an extended test drive on the electric or hybrid car you may be thinking of buying. Hiring a car for a few days is an entirely different matter to taking one a couple of times around the block from a new car showroom; so the hire is tantamount to a very long test drive. This is ideal because it has to be said that hybrids do drive slightly differently.
When the car is climbing a hill, for example, and you may be used to the feel of a car “digging in” to get there – well the feel in a hybrid is entirely different. The petrol or diesel engine just doesn’t feel half as strained thanks to the battery’s contribution. And in engine braking, when easing off the pedal going down hill, you can feel the difference again.
You may love it, you may not but either way, at least if you hire, it’s only a partial commitment.