Europcar

Danish car-sharing company Green Mobility is to set up a scheme in Dublin this year with a fleet of 400 electric cars. Competing with GoCar, owned by(...)

Is there another major consumer-facing industry that is plagued by as many shoddy operators as the car hire sector? Many of the biggest brands have u(...)

Sam Bennett may have been the fastest rider in the sprint on Friday’s 13th stage of the Giro d’Italia, but the Irishman ran out of luck in a complicat(...)

French car rental company Europcar has announced the acquisition of Goldcar in order to bolster its presence in the low-cost and leisure markets. The(...)

Europcar is buying out its Irish franchisee as the vehicle rental group pushes further into car sharing and seeks to increase the number of businesses(...)

Car hire can be very handy when you are on your holidays. It can also be very stressful and very costly if you get it wrong. For decades car-hire com(...)

In 2010 Eamon Ryan, then minister for the environment, outlined his vision for Irish motoring. The target for 2012 was to have 6,000 electric passenge(...)

I am off on my holidays and will probably rent a car but don’t want to be ripped off. Any tips? Loads of them. The first tip is ask yourself do (...)

Car hire firms aggree higher standards Five major car hire firms have agreed to improve practices following a Europe-wide review by the UK’s Comp(...)

French car rental group Europcar’s IPO will value the group at €1.7 to €2 billion, the company said on Monday. Europcar said in a statement it will pr(...)