New Wireless Charging System Being Used by Hertz

Posted on: February 14th, 2012 Posted by Stewart Perry

Hertz is well-known for leading the way in innovation for the car rental industry. Well, it now seems like the company is at it again. This time, they are going to try out the very first wireless charging system for electric cars in the rental industry. For right now, the company is just trialing the [...]

CityzenCar Launches Car Sharing by Text

Posted on: February 13th, 2012 Posted by Helen Young

According to reports, CityzenCar, which is a French peer-to-peer car sharing social network, has launched its SMS-based communication solution provided by Netsize. For those that do not know, Netsize is actually a unit of Gemalto, which is a leading mobile commerce provider. Pretty much, this new development offers people a new way to share cars, [...]

It seems like the battle over the European Union carbon emissions trading scheme will not come to an end any time soon. In fact, the battle just recently heated up after Europe’s low-cost carriers accused the United States and Chinese rivals of “gunboat” diplomacy against the system. They pointed out that this is a system [...]

Just recently, Zipcar has announced a brand new partnership with the City of Boston. This latest announcement was made just this week for the launching of FleetHub. For those that do not know FleetHub is a new fleet sharing program. Reports show, under this new deal, several of the city’s fleet vehicles will be fitted [...]

According to the latest reports, TUL Travel said it has “significantly outperformed” other companies in the British market in January. This is more than likely due to the hard time that its main rival, Thomas Cook, is having.
TUI Travel, which owns both First Choice and Thomson, said on Tuesday that it had seen an upturn [...]

Snow in UK Causes Travel Chaos

Posted on: February 7th, 2012 Posted by Tiffany Phillips

Recently, London woke up to a winter wonderland. Although some people enjoy seeing snow, others were not as happy. There was one sector that probably wished the snow had never come, and that is the UK travel industry. Due to this “big freeze,” the UK travel industry was hit hard with delays and cancellations.
According to [...]