Car rental companies, against the climate change law of the Balearic Islands

The controversial Balearic Climate Change Law that aims to prohibit the sale of cars with internal combustion engines in the medium term and the circulation of diesel vehicles from 2025, is awakening great discomfort in car rental companies on the islands. A basic activity for the maintenance of the tourism industry, so important for these islands.

This law promulgated by the current socialist government of the Balearic Islands, among other provisions, obliges rental companies to progressively purchase electric vehicles in their fleets and sets mandatory percentages of this type of vehicle on the total fleet from next year until 2035. From 2020 this proportion is set at 2%, to grow annually.

The provision sets other types of obligations for companies, such as the placement of identifying stickers on these electric cars or the communication to the island administration of the total number of vehicles in service and how many of them are zero emissions. The first thing forces you to stop the cars for a couple of days to buy the stickers and place them. And the second is impossible for most companies since the renters are continuously modifying their fleets by the flow of customers who rent a car at one point and return it in a different city.

The obligation to have a fixed percentage of vehicles of one type is equally impossible to determine for large companies in this sector that move their location fleets according to demand. It is easy to understand that the number of rental cars in the Balearic Islands cannot be the same in August as in December.

Entrepreneurs in the sector believe that, in any case, the total level of emissions of the fleets should be measured, without discriminating the type of fuel used by each vehicle.

Source: Reason