Climate Action

The car rental fleet has the lowest emission non-EV cars in the national fleet because it uses newer, more efficient cars. The average age of rental cars is 13 months¹, compared to nearly 9.6 years for the total fleet.² This also means that as car rental companies sell off cars at the end of the tourist season, they are adding newer, more efficient cars to the secondhand car market in Ireland.

Plug-in EVs account for 4.8% of the rental fleet³, compared to 4.2% of the national fleet⁴.

When sufficient publicly available charging infrastructure is in place and the cost of EVs makes renting them accessible to consumers, the members of the Car Rental Council of Ireland are ready to respond with the rollout of the EV rental fleet.