Residents in Austin, Texas, have access to a neat transportation concept. It's Car2go, a car rental that let's the renter find a car on his/her smart phone parked somewhere within the operating area, pick up an itty bitty Daimler smart fortwo car, use it for a while, and leave it at another parking spot near the renter's destination.
The cost is $35 to register then $0.35 per minute of use up to a max of $12.99 per hour or $65.99 per day. Plus tax. And there's a charge of $0.45 for each mile driven over 150.
From their website:
Our network includes more than 300 of the coolest cars on the road, the innovative smart fortwo. At 41 miles-per-gallon hwy, these amazing vehicles are the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid or electric vehicles in the United States and the 3rd most fuel-efficient vehicle in the United States. You'll see plenty of these blue and white vehicles all over Austin, handy and waiting for members to access and drive away.
Drive where you want for as long as you want. Afterwards, simply park the car in any legal parking place in our operating area, or one of the many car2go parking spots in Austin, no need to return the car to the original pick-up location.
It being Austin, a natural assumption would be that taxpayer money is subsidizing the operation, but surprisingly, a word search for "car2go" in the Austin 2010 budget didn't produce any results. So maybe taxpayers aren't kicking in. Not bad.
It seems that in this place they do have a good concept of having a car renting services for the people. They are even starting to use electric vehicles, which is a big advantage to lessen down the pollution on the said place.
Posted by: springkussen limburg | October 12, 2011 at 07:43 PM
Car rental or car hiring service is going to be a far common thing today in whole of the world. The main thing for owning any car rental service is that you should have a variety of cars for various occasions and purpose and your place should be near about any good visiting place. It will surely decrease your cost for advertising.
Posted by: Hummer Limo | October 19, 2011 at 01:24 AM
It's amazing how technology has advanced to the point where one can rent a car from one touch on their smart phone. Great read!
Joseph Nguyen
Posted by: joseph nguyen | January 15, 2012 at 03:39 PM
Having car renting services is really awesome. It enables everyone to have the capability of driving a car even he/she doesn't have to own or buy.
Posted by: tyre changers | January 22, 2012 at 04:53 PM
It is really good to know that there are some people render this kind of services. It helps those people who can't afford to buy their own vehicle.
Posted by: plumbing | March 04, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Really the amazing concept. I just love the idea of such facilitative service. Car2go rockss !!
Regards,
David
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Posted by: Taxi | March 06, 2012 at 05:31 AM
Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. I am truly grateful and really impressed.
Posted by: Southwest Transmissions Company | May 08, 2012 at 07:46 AM