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Nissan and Europcar, the leading
car hire company in Europe,
announced today that Nissan
LEAF, the award-winning 100%
electric car, will be available
for short term hire in two of
the world’s busiest capitals:
London and Paris. From February,
the 2011 World and European Car
of The Year will be available
for hire bringing the LEAF to a
wider audience.
The Nissan LEAF has a
homologated range of 110 miles
(175km), which is more than 90%
of UK commuters drive in a day.
Although the Nissan LEAF is as
easy to drive as a conventional
car, every customer hiring a
LEAF will be given a
face-to-face handover by a
Europcar representative who has
been fully trained on the car
and its workings.
For Londoners, this will be a
particularly important
development as Mayor, Boris
Johnson, aims to make London the
electric car capital of Europe.
In
order to make hiring the LEAF
even simpler for customers,
Europcar will recharge it
completely free of charge, even
waiving the standard service fee
usually made for vehicle
refuelling. For total peace of
mind, customers can call a
Nissan Hotline with any queries
they might have about the
vehicle, plus, at the end of the
hire every customer will be
surveyed by Europcar with
feedback used to help shape
future generations of Nissan
electric vehicles.
The pilot scheme, which will
initially run for three months,
forms a Definitive Agreement
between the two companies, and
follows a Memorandum of
Understanding in which both
organisations undertook to
investigate ways of jointly
promoting the concept of
emission-free motoring.
Success of this scheme could
potentially see it widened to
other cities in France and Great
Britain, as well as other
countries in Europe. |
