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Perhaps you need a car hire for your business trip to Birmingham or maybe you and the family are looking to have a week-long road trip around the UK or Europe. Hiring a car knows no bounds, but however you wish to use your car hire, there are some standard questions to ask in the process to ensure you get the right vehicle and hire from the right company.

With the help of you (our equally as environmentally-focused customers), we are able to play an important part in helping to reduce CO2 emissions. These ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental impact of road travel have recently been acknowledged with two separate awards!

Sometimes you just need to escape and have a retreat to the great outdoors. Immersing yourself in rolling hills and fresh air can do wonders for recharging the batteries, and in the Cotswolds, you get all the natural goodness as well as picture postcard villages and towns steeped in history!

The weeks leading up to Christmas are a wonderful time of year to get out and explore a new city in the UK. There’s so much going on that only comes around once a year so it’s best to get planning where you want to visit over Christmas 2018.

Our customers are and always have been our first priority. We constantly take on board feedback from customers branch to branch and we have now invested in new initiatives that will improve our customer service throughout the UK.

The UK has a host of attractions that we recommend travellers from abroad as well as Brits to visit every year. The most familiar might be world-famous attractions such as Stonehenge, Glastonbury Festival and Big Ben but what about the more obscure and unusual attractions?

If you are wondering where to go on a road trip in your car hire through winter, there are plenty of reasons why Edinburgh should be at the top of the list. The Scottish capital is already home to some stunning family attractions but here are some particularly impressive events in Edinburgh through winter:

It’s widely reported how cheap charging an electric vehicle is compared to petrol, but savings are also made through maintenance. But when it comes to hiring an electric vehicle, will motorists feel any financial benefit?

The October half term is the perfect opportunity to spend some quality time with your children. It doesn’t have to be done abroad, though. There are plenty of kid-friendly attractions in the UK that your little ones will relish visiting.

So, you’re interested in making the switch from fossil-fuelled vehicle to an electric vehicle? The benefits of using an electric vehicle are endless both for the environment and on a personal level.

Liverpool is a city championing the electrical vehicle revolution. Because our Liverpool John Lennon Airport branch has proved particularly popular with locals and tourists, we thought that it was right to feed the city’s appetite by opening a second car hire site in the city centre.

The leaves are turning orange and brown, the nights are getting shorter and there’s a chill in the earlier hours. All that means one thing: autumn is approaching. After one of the hottest summers we’ve endured in recent years, it’s sad to see the back of summer, but there is a certain charm about autumn that we can all look forward to.

There’s every reason for Leicestershire to be on your list of places to visit, especially if you’ve never been before. So, you’re in Leicester and you've got your hire car. What do you do? Well, let’s have a look, shall we?

​International car rental company Green Motion is celebrating the opening of their latest location in the United States being Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

At Green Motion, we’re proud to have a range of BMW rental cars make up our fleet. In this post, we look at BMW and what cars we have available for you to hire.

With the sun almost becoming a daily guarantee, it’s a great opportunity to visit some of the UK’s best beaches with family or friends. What better way is there to enjoy the sunshine than with a long weekend at the beach?

With the sun out and Britain experiencing one of the hottest summers in recent memory, outings and road trips with family and friends are becoming a weekly tradition. Here are some apps to download to make your summer road trips more enjoyable:

The UK is home to some lovely attractions that are ideal for a day trip or weekend getaway with family and friends. You’ve got your car hire, but where should you go?

If you cast your mind back to a year ago, Green Motion announced a new project that would offset total carbon emissions. This made us the first rental company to become carbon neutral in the country. Here's an overview of what the project has achieved and in the past year:

Green Motion is pleased to announce the return of our sponsorship of University College London (UCL) students’ Shell Eco-marathon entry.

​Picture the scene: it’s a hot summer’s day in July. You’re ten miles into the car journey to your lovely family holiday when you hear screams of “are we there yet?” from the backseats. Ah, the perfect start to four hour trip to Brighton. How can you make those long journeys easier?

In Newcastle, you’ll have no trouble in transferring the city’s beauty into a snapshot. There are simply so many photo opportunities around Newcastle. In this guide, we’ve included some places slightly outside of the city centre because with your car hire, you’ll easily be able to reach them. And trust us, they’ll be worth the trip.

We make numerous long journeys every year. Whether it be visits to long-distance relatives, business trips or holidays, there are a host of reasons why we might find ourselves dotted around the country. Here are the reasons why you should use a hire car for your next long journey:

We don’t need to tell you how much we love electric vehicles. It’s for that reason we’re pleased to see news this week that consumers are willing to pay more to have an electric vehicle.

While you’re off occupying yourself and indulging in the activities and sites of Manchester, it’s the perfect time for your electric car to fill up on the juice. Thankfully, like most major cities in the UK, Manchester has an extensive network of electric charging points that mean you are never too far away from somewhere for your rental car to recharge.

Hybrids are becoming more and more popular because they consume less fuel, emit less CO2 compared to a petrol or diesel vehicle whilst offering good performance. Hybrids are perhaps being used as a stepping stone to the eventual switch to a fully electric vehicle.

Whatever the reason, you’ve found yourself in London with a few evenings free that you’d like to fill. Where do you start and just what can you fit in? Here are five things that we’d make sure we’d do on a business trip to London.

Instead of buying a van, hiring one as and when they are needed is often a preferred option, whatever its purpose is. We understand that many of our customers are conscious of the impact their road use has on the environment so we’ve decided to list the most fuel-efficient vans in our fleet.

Thanks to the legacy of Bristol's year as European Green Capital in 2015, this beautiful city is one of the easiest places in the UK to drive an electric or hybrid car. Here, we take a look at some of the best places to park as you discover Bristol's many and varied attractions.

Whether it’s hitting roadworks on the way to an important meeting or being tailgated on a winding country road in wet weather, driving-related gripes are a fact of life in the UK. In fact research found that 52% of British drivers reported feeling stressed on a weekly basis whilst behind the wheel. In these kinds of situations, it’s easy to let stress take over and become upset or even succumb to road rage. However there are plenty of easy ways to take the dread out of driving:

From industrial landmarks, to modern glass structures, to grand civic buildings, interesting landmarks are ten a penny in Dublin and you are sure to come across many places you will want to stop off at as you drive around this fantastic city. To get you in the mood, here are a few places you shouldn’t miss.

If you need a car, you buy a car, or so the conventional thinking goes. However, occasionally, renting a vehicle for a month or longer can be a far more sensible solution. Here’s why monthly car rental can make perfect sense.

Edinburgh is a truly beautiful city. For those of you who take a camera with you on your adventures, Edinburgh is a haven for getting a good shot. The stunning views, historic sites and architecture all across the city makes finding a worthy setting for a picture is an easy task.

​The Peak District is a feast for the eyes. The National Park is a popular destination for those who enjoy getting out in beautiful scenery. It’s not just a place that can be explored on foot, either. With over 1,438 square kilometres, you’ll do well to cover it all by walking.

2018 marks Green Motion’s 11th anniversary in the UK. We were launched in 2007 and in the years since plenty has happened in the company and in the car industry as a whole.

Recently crowned by Lonely Planet as the number one region to visit in 2018, Belfast is a vibrant city with plenty to like. Belfast has gone under the radar for a long time but it is now evolving into one of the UK's most exciting cities.

At Green Motion, we understand that things change. What your situation is when you book your car hire might be completely different a few weeks or months down the line. You might want to add an additional driver, extend the length of your trip or cancel your car hire altogether.

Hiring a car generally makes things easier. What makes things even easier is sharing the driving burden with other members of your party. Whether you have got a long distance to cover, want to share the abilities of a luxury car or simply want to have a backup plan should something happen, adding an additional driver can be a good plan.

A holiday or business trip is rarely based on whether a rental car is needed or if it is a good place to drive. However, there are some places in the UK where a rental car can be needed more than others and routes that can be hard to resist for driving enthusiasts.

​To us, the advantages of choosing an electric car over a petrol-fuelled one are obvious; that’s why we decided to set up the world’s first environmentally friendly vehicle rental company. It’s widely known that electric cars are better for the environment but what does that mean and are there any other benefits to hiring an electric car?

According to Fuel-Economy.co.uk, the average MPG for UK cars in 37.8. A hybrid car will then get a slightly improved MPG, for example the 2016 Prius typically gets 50–55 MPG. But because electric cars don’t use fuel, how can they be categorised in mileage performance when electric cars don’t use the ‘gallons’ that MPG is measured in?