{"id":185,"date":"2008-08-25T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:23:51","slug":"europcar-selling-cheap-fuel-for-rental-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/185","title":{"rendered":"Europcar Selling Cheap Fuel For Rental Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carhireplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">car hire<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">van rental<\/a> companies, customers are charged a penalty fee for returning vehicles with insufficient fuel in. They are then charged an inflated per-litre rate for the fuel required to top up the vehicle&#8217;s tank.<\/p>\n<p>Now that might be fair enough &#8211; after all they should have filled up &#8211; but <a href=\"http:\/\/Europcar.evyy.net\/c\/30237\/32216\/1027?subId1=blog&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europcar.co.uk%2FEBE%2Fmodule%2Frender%2Fuk-vans\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Europcar<\/a> have come up with a much better solution that will save customers both time and money when it comes to refuelling.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone hiring a car or van for more than 3 days who thinks they will use a whole tank of fuel will be given the option of paying for a full tank of fuel at the beginning of the rental <strong>at 3p per litre under the average high street price<\/strong>. I&#8217;m not sure how they calculate the &#8216;average high street price&#8217; but this certainly sounds like a cost-effective, pragmatic view to refuelling charges.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly compares well to a recent experience I had with another very large, international car and van hire company (who shall remain nameless).<\/p>\n<p>Their fuel policy was the normal &#8216;return it with the same amount of fuel it had when you picked it up&#8217;. Fair enough, except that the vehicle was running on fumes when I collected it, so to avoid giving fuel away that I&#8217;d paid for, I had to somehow manage to return it with the needle buried right in the red, too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar have introduced a new policy to allow car and van hire customers to buy a whole tank of fuel at 3p per litre below average high street prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[390,391,389,63,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}