Enterprise Rent-A-Car Responds to California's Growing Demand for Hybrid Vehicles.New Environmentally-Friendly Cars Now Available in the Bay Area SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced plans to add Saturn VUE The Saturn VUE is a compact crossover SUV from General Motors' Saturn marque, and is Saturn's top-selling model in the United States. It was the first vehicle to use the GM Theta platform. The VUE is the oldest model in the Saturn lineup since the demise of the L-Series in 2005. Green Line Hybrid vehicles This is a list of hybrid vehicles in chronological order of production: Early designs
The first wave of approximately 160 hybrid Saturn VUE SUV's will be delivered the first part of 2007 to select branch locations in the Bay area as well as Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Sacramento, with additional deliveries slated throughout next year. "We continually look at the different fuel efficient vehicles and how to best integrate them into our fleet because these vehicles are very attractive to our customers," said Bay Area Vice President and General Manager Leonard Almalech. "The Saturn VUE Hybrids deliver 20 percent better fuel economy over the standard VUE See HP-VUE. VUE - Visual User Environment: a desktop manager for Unix from Hewlett-Packard. engine, and if California renters show continued demand for alternative fuel cars we will add more to our fleet." The introduction of the hybrid vehicles is just one of Enterprise's many environmentally-friendly initiatives. To commemorate Enterprise Rent-A-Car's 50th anniversary, the company is underwriting the planting of 50 million trees over the next 50 years at a total cost of $50 million dollars. The Enterprise Rent-A-Car 50 Million Tree Pledge partners with The National Arbor Day Foundation The National Arbor Day Foundation is the world's oldest and largest tree-planting organization.[1] Its million members plant millions of trees every year. New members receive 10 free trees. and the U.S. Forest Service in a long-term commitment to help restore public lands that are in need of reforestation Reforestation The reestablishment of forest cover either naturally or artificially. Given enough time, natural regeneration will usually occur in areas where temperatures and rainfall are adequate and when grazing and wildfires are not too frequent. . California is expected to benefit in particular from the tree plantings because of the onslaught of forest fires in the state each year. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Enterprise Rent-A-Car operates more than 878,000 rental and fleet services vehicles worldwide and has annual revenues of $9.04 billion. Its California operation, with nearly 800 locations, is the company's largest region and the leader in its market. Last year, Enterprise opened more than 400 new locations, increasing its total locations to more than 7,000 in the nation. The company operates more than 900 offices in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Ireland. Enterprise is currently number 21 on the Forbes "500 Largest Private Companies in America" list. For more information about Enterprise, visit www.enterprise.com. |
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