EV RENTAL CARS SIGNS EXCLUSIVE AGREEMENT WITH FOX RENT A CAR
More Than 260 Hybrid Vehicles Now Available Through Fox Rent A Car Locations
Los Angeles, January 19, 2005
EV Rental Cars, the only environmental based rental car company in the United States, has signed an exclusive agreement with Fox Rent A Car, the largest independent car rental company. Effective immediately EV Rental Cars' fleet of more than 260 hybrid vehicles now will be available through select Fox Rent A Car locations, including the Los Angeles International Airport.
"For more than a couple of years, Fox Rent A Car had expressed an interest in working with us," says EV Rental Cars CEO Jeff Pink. "They have always been a firm concerned with the environment, and we felt they would be a good fit with our organization. When our six-year contract with Budget Rent A Car recently expired, we decided the time was right to team with Fox and help grow our business at a much faster pace."
Headquartered in California, with 21 rental locations in nine states, including nine rental offices in California alone, from Oakland Airport to San Diego Airport, plus international affiliate locations in Toronto, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic, Fox Rent A Car is positioned to provide EV Rental Cars' environmentally friendly and fuel efficient fleet to more customers worldwide.
"EV Rental Cars has the largest and most diverse hybrid fleet in the U.S.," says Joe Knight, Executive Vice President of Fox Rent A Car. "With more consumers concerned about rising fuel prices and an increased concern with environmental issues, we want to offer our customers not only the highest standard of service, but exactly the type of vehicle they demand. And increasingly, more drivers are making hybrid vehicles their first choice."
Today EV Rental Cars is the first to offer the Ford Escape Hybrid, recent winner of the prestigious Truck of the Year award at the North American International Auto Show, plus the Honda Insight, Honda Civic Hybrid, Toyota Prius and Honda Civic natural gas vehicle at locations in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.
About EV Rental Cars
EV Rental Cars operates exclusively through Fox Rent A Car which has locations at airports around the world. EV Rental Cars was founded in 1998 as the first and only rental company in the U.S. to rent environmental vehicles to the public, providing the most technologically advanced environmental vehicles as soon as they are available.
Currently its three-city fleet of more than 260 hybrid and natural gas vehicles, and another 300 cars on order, is helping to raise the awareness of the benefits of driving clean-fuel cars, and creating a market for clean car technology. Since its inception, EV Rental Cars has prevented more than 40 tons of air pollution.
For more information on the company's rental rates and locations, please visit www.evrental.com or call 1-877-EV RENTAL for reservations.
About Fox Rent A Car
Founded in 1989, Fox Rent A Car brings over 15 years of solid experience to the environmental rental car market. Adding hybrid cars to its rental fleet is part of Fox's continued commitment to bring the widest range of vehicles to its loyal customers. Fox is certain that its customers will be impressed at the quality and performance of these environmentally friendly cars.
Fox Rent A Car has long been recognized as an innovator in the car rental industry, having launched one of the first rental car websites in 1997. Fox will use its popular website, www.foxrentacar.com, as well as other Internet methods to offer the EV vehicles to its current customers, as well as to new customers who are concerned about the environment or interested in the latest technology.
