Web 57DHYAFZZFLWG May 23 2026    For Your Next Rental, Try an Electric Vehicle or Hybrid?

Gas Is Over Four dollars and Fifty cents a Gallon! Should

You, For Your Next Rental, Try an Electric Vehicle or Hybrid?

We Do the Math. Try Hybrid! Hybrids cost more than economy cars

and sometimes more than E.V.s. At San Francisco International Air

port in June, a Kia Niro Hybrid from Hertz was Seventy Nine Dollars

a day in a recent search, while an economy car was Sixty Three Dollars

a day. No E.V.s were listed. So a Hybrid costs Twenty Five Percent

more than an economy car. Since the United States attacked Iran

in February, the price of crude oil has shot up by more than

Fifty percent, causing gas prices to surge to a national average of Four

Dollars and Fifty Six Cents a gallon according to the Triple A, One dollar

And Thirty Eight cents a gallon above the Three Dollars and Eighteen Cents

per gallon a year ago. That is Forty Three percent price hike in the year since.

So a simple comparison would be that Hybrid Rental is Twenty Five Percent

More and Gas is Forty Three Percent more.  What percentage of Hybrid use

Is use of gas? If a traditional car gets Twenty Five  miles per gallon,

a Two Hundred-mile trip requires eight gallons of gas. At the gallon

national average for gas, that trip would cost Thirty Six Dollars and Forty Eight Cents.

In a compact Electric Vehicle like a Nissan Leaf it could be Twenty Five Dollars And ninety Two Cents

to charge up during a Two Hundred Mile Range using the average electric rate of Zero point

Four One Eight dollars per Kilowatt Hour or Ten Dollars and Fifty Nine cents cheaper than

Fueling up. Charging Session fees may be assessed with most in the Twenty Five Cent

To Two Dollar range. So a trip in a conventional car would cost Ten Dollars and Fifty Nine Cents

More using gas than for charging.  But renting the Electric Vehicle would be Sixteen Dollars more.

So it may cost you  Six Dollars and Fifty Cents more for a Two hundred mile range E V rental plus charge.

A small price to pay for a greener ride if you have enough charging stations in your area to make

It reasonable to rent an electric vehicle for any business travel or vacation plans you make.