Tagged San Francisco

USRentACar.co.uk Reveals Customer-Reported Wait Times

Three major airport location wait times have been revealed for three of the company's suppliers: Budget Rent A Car, Alamo Rent A Car and Dollar Rent A Car.

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Proposed San Mateo County Tax Hike Could Decrease Travel in the Area

The U.S. Travel Association reveals damaging survey results of a new tax hike that would affect travelers to San Francisco.

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Getaround Establishes New Headquarters in San Francisco

The new office will create an open-work environment for its team of 30 employees.

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Travel Associations Oppose Rental Car Tax Ballot Measure in San Mateo County

Both the San Francisco Travel Association and the U.S. Travel Association have announced their opposition to the 2.5% rental car tax resolution passed by the county’s board of supervisors. The tax is one of three that will be on the county’s June 5 ballot.

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Car-Sharing Fleet to Take Delivery of Mitsubishi i in San Francisco

Mitsubishi Motors North America said it will make its first delivery of a 2012 model-year Mitsubishi i electric vehicle to a fleet customer on Thursday, Dec. 8. The customer is City CarShare, a San Francisco Bay-area nonprofit car-sharing group.

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SFO Places ‘Hands-free’ Advisory Signs at RAC Counters

In an effort to increase awareness of distracted driving, San Francisco International Airport has placed signs at all its rental car counters, as well as entrances for pick up.

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Car Sharing in Los Angeles May Expand Citywide

While the Los Angeles Department of Transportation suggests charging for parking spaces in the city’s car sharing program to help maintain appropriate funding, it also suggests that the city grow the pilot program to service the entire city.

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Hertz and Marriott Announce EV Car-sharing Partnership

Hertz and Marriott introduce electric-vehicle (EV) car sharing at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront and the first EV car rental program in downtown San Francisco.

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Peer-to-peer Car Sharer Gets $10 Million Investment

Shasta Ventures and Lisa Gansky are joining Google Ventures and August Capital in boosting the company’s total Series A.2 funding to $10 million.

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Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco Partners with Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco and Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced the availability of the city’s first and only electric vehicle (EV) rental program and charging station to be hosted by a hotel, for the Nissan LEAF EV.

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