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Hesitant to rent wheels on your next vacation or business trip? Need a lift from the airport? Simply want to be chauffeured around the city for the day or after your wedding reception? Hiring a green limo or car service is an easy, eco-friendly way to travel in style while minding carbon emissions. It also gives you a chance to see the sights while someone keeps his or her eyes on the road for you.
Find it! Green limo, car, and shuttle services
This isn't your parents' white stretch limo. Green car, limo, and shuttle services offer hybrid and biodiesel vehicles to those who need a lift—from the airport, to a meeting, or just around town—but would rather have someone else put the pedal to the metal. Some companies will even chauffeur your wedding, corporate event, funeral, or winery tour.
Clean Air Limo (Austin, TX)
Austin-based Clean Air Limo—serving Central Texas and the Hill Country—offers "style, service, and sustainability" to green Texans. The company's fleet is composed entirely of hybrids, including makes by Mercedes and Lexus. Available for airport transfers, sightseeing, special events, and more.DrivenEco (New York City)
Need chauffeured hybrid wheels? Look no further than DrivenEco. Serving New York City and its environs for events both business and personal.ECOLIMO (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC)
Their fleet includes hybrids, biodiesel- fueled vehicles, and compressed natural gas (CNG) powered options.EcoShuttle (Portland, OR)
All aboard! Hire one of EcoShuttle's nine-person, 100 percent biodiesel-fueled vans for a simple airport ride or for a slew of special group events.Elite Green Car (Atlanta, GA)
Hail (well, hire) one of Elite Green Car's Lexus RX 400 Hybrids to cruise around the ATL in sustainable style.Evo Limo (Los Angeles, CA)
Their fleet of uber-lux suburbans and sedans have been converted to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) yet still come with mini-bars, tinted windows, and entertainment systems.Green Car Limo (San Francisco Bay Area)
Swapping traditional stretch limos with a Toyota Prius fleet, Michael Fadis' Green Car Limo service has been serving the Bay Area since 2005.Green Limousine (Vail, CO)
Want your next trip to the Colorado Rockies to be a bit greener (and sans the hassle of navigating snowy conditions yourself)? Book a ride with Green Limousine, a car service with a fleet of biodiesel-fueled sedans and SUVs.Green Shuttle of Cape Cod (MA)
Visit one of the Northeast's most popular summer playgrounds, Cape Cod, while curbing your carbon tiremark. Get picked up in a Prius, Altima, or Mercury Mariner at various points in New England such as Boston Logan Airport and Providence's Green Airport.Green SUV (Hollywood, CA)
If you're not ready to give up the SUV habit when it comes time to hire a car, consider Green SUV, which offers a fleet of hybrid SUVs, including the Tahoe, Yukon, and Escalade. Transportation provided for airport service, business meetings and corporate travel, as well as special events, in the LA area.Greenfleet Car Service (New Jersey)
Garden State-based Greenfleet Car Service specializes in corporate travel to and from airports, personal travel, group outings, and conventions.greentomatocars (London, UK)
With a fleet of private hire hybrids, greentomatocars is the greenest ride in London (they'll also transport you to other points in the UK). And they offset emission with tree-planting and various eco-friendly projects.New York Hybrid Car & Limousine Services
Offering airport pickup and drop-off, special occasion, sightseeing, and out of town services with "all hybrids all the time," New York Hybrid is a great alternative for your transportation needs.OZOcar (New York City)
Driving around the Big Apple can be a big pain in the you know what. Why not hire OZOcar, NYC's first hybrid luxury car service, to do the driving for you?PlanetTran (New England, San Francisco Bay Area)
Are you a green-minded traveler flying into San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Boston, Providence, or Manchester, New Hampshire? Give PlanetTran a buzz and they'll pick up you and your bags in a Toyota Prius and deposit you at your destination the sustainable way.
Hiring a green limo or car service helps you go green because...
- When accelerating, a hybrid rental car will run off a battery-charged electric motor, not gasoline, curtailing global-warming-causing tailpipe emissions. With significantly better fuel economy, hybrids can reduce air pollution by as much as 90 percent.[1]
- While at a standstill (a common taxi habit), a hybrid's engine shuts itself off and the vehicle runs on electricity. Every two minutes of idling in a standard car consumes the same amount of gas required to drive approximately one mile—a waste of resources and a contributor to smog.[2]
The livery and limo car service industry is one traditionally populated with over-sized, gas-guzzling, pollutant-spewing luxury vehicles such as the Lincoln Town Car. Compared to the fuel economy of hybrids that hover around 50 mpg, the fuel economy of a standard limo dwindles in the low teens. Aside from decreased fuel costs, a hybrid such as a Toyota Prius costs less to purchase and maintain than a Lincoln Town Car, making hybrid fleets a more viable economic and environmental choice to livery car operators.
Motor transportation is responsible for about one-third of CO2 emissions in the US, with cars and light trucks accounting for a majority.[3] Together, cars, SUVs, and minivans emit more than 300 million tons of carbon each year in the US. These emissions are equivalent to those generated by a 50,000-mile-long coal train—which would reach between Washington, DC and Los Angeles 17 times.[4] For every gallon of gas a car burns, it emits nearly 20 pounds of CO2.[5] Thus, a 3,000-mile drive in a vehicle that gets 20 miles per gallon produces 3,000 pounds of CO2. Although hiring a car service that has a hybrid or other biodiesel-fueled fleet may be a short-lived experience, those miles traveled will help curb these carbon emissions.
Glossary
- automotive fuel economy: Fuel economy in cars is important because carbon dioxide emissions are directly related to the amount of fuel burned. "Miles per gallon," or mpg, is the way most Americans measure fuel economy, while other countries may use liters of fuel per 100 km traveled.
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Another green transportation-related idea: We hired a shuttle to take our guests from the hotel to the ceremony to the reception and back again. Fewer cars on the road for the environment, and a responsible way to protect your guest's safety if you're serving alcohol.
2:47pm
love it, rebecca. "don't drink and drive. get on the shuttle!" nice way to be green and add fun to your wedding!
11:51am
Greener, less pollution in the city u live and for your kids,
Just make sure the drivers pull the passenger seat all the way up, so there is enough leg room.
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It doesn't really matter because you'll probably be paying the same either way. As long as I get to where I'm going.
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Another green transportation-related idea: We hired a shuttle to take our guests from the hotel to the ceremony to the reception and back again. Fewer cars on the road for the environment, and a responsible way to protect your guest's safety if you're serving alcohol. http://www.club-penguin.org/ Club Penguin Cheats
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It's very exciting to see more and more Chicago wedding couples hiring one of our hybrids to transport them from the ceremony to the reception. White weddings are in the past; it's all about green weddings now!
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