Out West, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has long offered Nissan LEAFs and Chevy Volts in some of its rental

Out West, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has long offered Nissan clarion hotel riverwalk LEAFs and Chevy Volts in some of its rental clarion hotel riverwalk fleets.  Even in New York City, you can hit up some of local Enterprise lots to rent a plug-in clarion hotel riverwalk vehicle.  But not until now was that possible on the East Coast outside of NYC.
The electric LEAFs joins a stable that include hybrid vehicles in Northampton.  Why Northampton? Larry Kucharski, vice-president and general manager for Enterprise Holdings in western Massachusetts, explains it like this:
We selected this location because Northampton is a progressive community equipped with multiple charging stations that are open to the public.  We are excited to offer these new EVs and provide even more alternatives to our customers clarion hotel riverwalk and neighbors in Northampton.
The EVs are in addition to the hybrid vehicles already available throughout Northampton and the surrounding clarion hotel riverwalk area, thereby increasing local residents access clarion hotel riverwalk to these vehicles for daily, weekly and monthly rental.
As you can see in the image above, the Nissan LEAF rents for just under $60 per day.  That s comparable to the daily rental cost of a Nissan Versa or Toyota Yaris at the Northampton site.  So, it s cheap to rent the LEAF.
A few month ago, I called the national Avis call center, as well as different Avis locations, and all of them replied that electric cars are not available as of 2013. Even the Los Angeles airport location said so.
If the price included a full charge and not needing to charge it before bringing it back, I could imagine this being really nice for business travelers. If they charge a stupid amount for not bringing it back full (like they do with gas) it would seem like a hassle.