Features
25 Mar 21

Europcar goes Flex. Your fleet may benefit

In these volatile times, your company needs flexible solutions for its mobility needs. Are you flexible enough to source them from… a rental company? Because Europcar’s SuperFlex, Flex and DuoFlex formulas may be just what your fleet is looking for.

‘Flexibility’ is a funny concept. For lease companies, it means shorter-term contracts. But from a rental perspective, it means longer-term ones. While everybody moves to occupy the same space, not all offers are the same. And it may be a rental company like Europcar that has the smarter formula and the better fit for your corporate mobility requirements.

Convenient formulas

Europcar Mobility Group, of course, has the benefit of both experience and size. Since many years, the company is the unassailable leader on the European vehicle rental market. It also has a pretty good working knowledge of longer-term rental formulas across its various markets.

And now is the perfect time to streamline that knowledge into three convenient subscription-based formulas, which are being rolled out across Europe.

  • SuperFlex is the most flexible solution, from one month.
  • Flex is the solution that starts from three months, its lower rates further reducing as duration increases.
  • DuoFlex is a unique model: built on the SuperFlex solution, it adds access to a second vehicle for a total of four days a month.

No commitment

‘Subscription’ means the three formulas share a bunch of advantages. First and foremost, there is no longterm commitment. Contracts can be cancelled without penalty after the initial (three-month) period for the Flex product, and at any time for SuperFlex and DuoFlex.

Secondly and equally importantly, there’s no hassle. Europcar’s flexible formulas include assistance and damage management, service and maintenance and insurance. And all this without any up-front payments or end-of-contract fees.

While that’s plenty to recommend the Flex family over any long-term lease formula, Europcar also offers an advantage over the shorter-term offers by lease companies: immediate availability, as the vehicles offered are drawn from its rental portfolio.

Ideal way

The SuperFlex and Flex formulas – both available for corporate and private customers alike, by the way – are presently available in Europe’s Big Five markets (France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain), plus Portugal, Finland, Belgium and Ireland. The market-disrupting DuoFlex solution, soon to be available in the Big Five, is initially aimed at corporate clients only. Availability of all formulas will increase soon.

DuoFlex, offering a vehicle with a different motorisation or model for two two-day periods a month, is an ideal way for EV drivers to take an ICE vehicle on a long weekend drive – or inversely, for ICE drivers to experiment with EVs. Or for car drivers to use an LCV when needed – etcetera.

All in all, perhaps it’s not so strange for Europcar Mobility Group to reach out to corporates with longer-term needs, says José Blanco, Group Sales Director. “Our founder Raoul-Louis Mattei said: Why own a car, when you can rent one when you need it? That vision is now more relevant than ever.”

Adapted & adaptable

Adecco is one of the companies that opted for Europcar’s Flex formula. Salvatore Sannino, Purchasing Specialist for Adecco’s Outsourcing Business Unit, explains why: 

“We’re implementing a new, innovative offering for our clients in the consumer and retail sector. It involves sourcing qualified temporary staff for field marketing visits, together with the vehicles they will need. As this offer is in a pilot phase, we were looking for a solution that was as flexible as possible. That’s why we chose Flex for a 9- to 12-month period.”

“In fact, we’re also using Flex on a 3-month basis, to honour another contract with a major e-commerce player whose delivery activities have grown considerably in the context of COVID-19. Again, Flex turned out to be perfectly suited to our needs. Overall, we at Adecco appreciate the philosophy behind Europcar’s medium-term offers: they provide the flexibility we need to offer adapted, adaptable solutions to our customers.”

Want to find out more ? Please visit: https://www.europcar.com/b2b/long-term-solutions