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At ALt Car Nissan said that 500 LEAFs have been sold to Hertz and Avis. (not sure if that was "each")

At the end of this.
Car Sharing Electrified
For those people that aren't ready to be guinea pigs or buy an electric car quite yet, Hertz, the world's largest general-use airport car-rental brand, will launch an electric vehicle rental option or "EV" share option in major cities across the nation later this year.

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Hertz's car sharing arm, Connect by Hertz, has 20,000 members.

Jack Hidary, the man behind the Cash for Clunkers program and the Greening of the New York City taxi fleet, has been charged with leading the efforts toward launching the network of charging stations and electric cars by Hertz.


"It's the first time ever we are offering consumers the ability to rent or car share electric vehicles," Hidary said. "Anything from the Nissan Leaf to the Prius plug-in to a Chevy Volt to a Mitsubishi I-Beam -- so lots of choices. And they can both rent it or do something like car share, where they just use it for a few hours."
 
This is a place where EVs would probably do very well. Well some of them, the Leaf and future Tesla (3rd car) would most likely do well as fleet cars in general. That is if they truly are easy to maintain (no more tires every 5k miles) easy to track and monitor would allow satellite locations all over major metropolitan areas much like ZipCar is now.

In DC out subway is the Metro.
If there were a standard networked charging station in some if not all (10 years from now) parking spaces it would allow many more people to have access to transportation which would reduce the demand for everyone to have a car.
....Huh that might actually backfire in some regards, depending on your standpoint.
 
Hertz to compete with ZipCar... But with EVs

Hertz looks set to take on ZipCar at their own game with local quick rental but will include EVs: SmartEV, Coda Sedan, Nissan Leaf, Plug-in Prius, Mitsubishi i and Tesla Roadster. I guess we should expect the Volt sometime too.

On show in NYC today was the Coda, Tesla (x2), Leaf and Smart.

Attached some snaps.

This is the first time I've seen the Coda; Toyota/Honda/Nissan have little to fear in the build quality stakes; it's about Kia ~2005 IMO.

Also, the GM WattStation was on show; “Priced around $1,200 for the industrial version, and significantly less for the home version, these Level 2 charges are very smart; capable of working with practically any system so you won’t be locked in to a particular providers network.” said Ronald Watt Jr. President of Watt + Company LLC, OH. “The residential version is really small” he added. 25x16x6”.

The zip car like service from Hertz is a $50/year service but, register at http://hertzev.com to get the first year free.

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Coda PRND.JPG
Coda cockpit.JPG
GE WattStation.JPG
Smart e.JPG
Prius.JPG
Coda dials.JPG
Coda front.JPG
Prius plug.JPG
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( Orig. thread : http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/4314-Rent-Hire-and-Electric-Vehicle)
 
More on Enterprise rent car.


NCAA commercial has a Leaf in nearly every shot



Enterprise Rent-A-Car Helps Consumers Get a Feel for the Nissan Leaf - CleanTechnica

Nissans offered
http://www.efleets.com/content/fleets/pdf/2012_Fleet_Preview_Guide_Nissan.pdf


http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/02/enterprise-20120208.html
The Torrance rental office becomes the 11
[SUB]th[/SUB]
Enterprise location in Southern California to offer EV rentals, joining branches in Encino, Newport Beach, Ontario, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Thousand Oaks. Enterprise operates the largest network of EV rentals in California.
Enterprise is also piloting an “EV Owners Discount Program” for customers at the Torrance branch, which provides EV owners with a 15% discount off the regular retail rate when they need to rent a longer-range vehicle. In addition, EV owners can charge up their own EVs at Enterprise during the rental.

Portland OR
http://www.enterprise.com/car_rental/deeplinkmap.do?bid=2874&xparam=Portland, OR-car-rental
 
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Anyone know where I can rent a Volt near LAX? I tried the big name companies mentioned in this thread and they either don't want to offer it there or say sold out for every date I put in.

There are a couple of smaller specialist places but they don't want to rent out on weekends.