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Car Rental Site Offsets Carbon Emissions

October 16, 2008 in Consumer News by kristen | 1 comment

New web site VroomVroomVroom.com (I’ll just call it Vroom from here on out) aggregates car rentals into one-stop online renting. Enter your travel dates and destination, and Vroom will find you the best rental deal. The difference is, the company will pay to neutralize the carbon spewed into the air by your rental car.

Vroom has teamed with CarbonNeutral to accomplish its green goals. They figure one gallon of gas puts out about 20 pounds of CO2. They calculate distance driven and the fuel efficiency of the rental car to determine how much they need to pay for offsets.

Vroom doesn’t specialize in finding hybrids to rent or low-mpg cars. It’s just a portal for comparison shopping with Avis, Hertz, Alamo, Budget, and the rest of the big rental guys. Tracking down a rentable Prius is up to you, but this site could help you find a good price or ease the guilt if all you can find to rent is a gas-guzzling, full-sized sedan or smiliar.

eQocar Offers Hybrid Rentals

August 19, 2008 in Biz News, Consumer News, Hybrids by kristen | No comments

eQocar\'s homepage

Say you’re spending a week in sunny southern California on business, and you just know you’re going to be mortified driving around in your Chevy Cobalt or similar rental car while Jamie Lee Curtis is tooling around town in her Honda FCX Clarity. Fear not — eQocar is here to help your eco-ego and your carbon footprint.

The three-month-old car rental agency in Burbank has a lot full of hybrids, from the lowly Prius to the massive GMC Yukon hybrid. Prices aren’t cheap — the Prius runs $59 a day, while the Yukon goes for $139. And if only the best will do, the hybrid Lexus LS600 can be had for $650 a day.

The Green Car Advisor blog from Edmunds.com says business is brisk for eQocar, and that it hopes to expand further into California and across the nation. It also wants to add the Volt, Tesla, Aptera, and other cars to its current fleet of 45 as they become available.