SAVE GAS - SAVE ENVIRONMENT - RENT A HYBRID CAR
More and more ecologically concerned people are looking into hybrid car rentals when they need a car. But it is not just a matter of saving some gas and sparing the environment some global warming gases when using hybrid car rental. It is also about making a statement and spreading the green way of thinking.
Why Rent A Hybrid Car?
So how does a hybrid car work and why should you rent a hybrid car instead of ordinary one? A hybrid car is a car that uses two distinct power sources. A conventional gas internal combustion engine and an electric motor powered by on-board rechargeable batteries. The result of using a combination of both systems is lower hybrid car fuel consumption (on behalf of using electro engine) without sacrificing the driving range of the hybrid car. If you would use an 100% battery powered electric vehicle that needs to be charged from an external source, your (rental) hybrid car driving range would not be more than a hundred miles. But with the combination of electric and combustion engine, you do not have to sacrifice anything.
Modern hybrid car that you can rent also prolong the charge on their batteries by capturing kinetic energy via regenerative braking. Another gas and emissions saving feature hybrid rental cars have is turning off the internal combustion engine when the car is idle. Hybrid cars became available in the 1990s when Honda introduced Honda Insight and Toyota introduced Toyota Prius. Today there are already a few companies that offer hybrid car rentals so if you can choose, choose a hybrid car. Every little bit counts.
