Remember in our very first blog that we spoke about Zipcar and if it will affect the car rental industry. Well, low and behold Hertz have now come up with a direct competitor to them with Connect By Hertz. Now I wonder if my prediction that I’ll get $1million for Christmas will come true?

As you can now rent cars by the hour, should this be, like other car-related green schemes, tax deductible?  It may not be something that would trouble James Bond, I would imagine he’d get a lovely lady to do his. But for the rest of us, Taxes are always going to happen, why can’t we get a break on green issues? The phenomenon of the hire car facility run by companies such as Streetcar/Zipcar is Read more…

In the US, hourly car rental and green driving is the new battle ground for car hire In the depths of the credit crunch, more and more car hire companies are renting their cars by the hour. In major cities in the US, this is something car hire companies are trying to cash in on. A technique that would probably help James Bond, as he can wreck the car and forget about it within 60 Read more…