[ausev] Can you rent a Prius Hybrid here ???

[Arash Nazhad]

Hello Everyone

I am from vancouver canada and about half the cabs in vancouver are prius
and the other half are corrolas. From my understanding I think the rental
companies are misinformed. There is a operation cost savings. Because the
engine is maintained based on the hours of operation and from my
understanding it shuts off at certain points, so you save a few dollars here
and there. I know in van you can rent prius. Anyways i dont think thats
going to get me the $50.

Cheers,

Arash

On 3/6/07, Carey King <careyking1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> I love your question. I kept wondering this same thing for cabs (in
> terms of reducing the cost of operations by 30%-60% I'd say depending
> upon the replaced/compared car). I asked my girlfriend in New York City
> if she's seen any hybrid cabs. I think she finally saw one after
> looking, but I don't know how many there really are.
>
> Carey
>
> Dan_Lee Vogler wrote:
>
> >Well, after the article in last week's Wednesday newspaper rating the
> >Toyota Prius as the number one car in America for MILAGE, RELIABILITY and
> >RESALE value,... I then started looking for one.
> >
> >I don't know about reliability, but the resale value seems to be only
> about
> >$1000 a year depeciation for one in good condition.    WOW !
> >
> >Next week GF1 & I are going to tour San Antonio's Spanish Missions and
> the
> >2000 acre Toyota Tundra Plant site, which is the most modern automotive
> >plant in the world they say.
> >
> >I want to rent a TOYOTA Prius for the trip to TOYOTA , so to no avail, I
> >called every car rental place in the book ( ~ 150 listed ) and got a very
> >cold response from most, saying "oH NO, the banks won't those weird POSs
> >for us,... call someone else."   I was stunned by more than one negative
> >response to my request to rent a Toyota Prius from these uninformed
> people
> >at the rental lots.
> >
> >Does anyone know where I can rent a TOYOTA PRIUS in or near Austin ??
> >There's $50 in it for the right referal by this Saturday the 10th of
> March.
> >
> >Dan Lee Vogler
> >512-462-9171
> >phev at WireHead.com
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >AusEV mailing list
> >AusEV at austinev.org
> >http://www.austinev.org/mailman/listinfo/ausev
> >
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> AusEV mailing list
> AusEV at austinev.org
> http://www.austinev.org/mailman/listinfo/ausev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.austinev.org/pipermail/ausev/attachments/20070306/c77f6b48/attachment.html