A Guide to Car Hire Eco-Ratings

The Car Hire Eco-Ratings Guide helps you determine the Greenhouse Carbon Emissions of each rental vehicle from our partners in Australia. DriveNow is the first Car Rental website worldwide to provide this ranking across multiple car rental fleets.

All vehicles in Australia are subject to a set of national standards covering environmental and safety standards. The carbon emission results from this testing are published on the Australian Federal Government's Green Vehicle Guide website, www.greenvehicleguide.gov.au. DriveNow has reproduced the Rating results from the Green Vehicle website with the kind permission of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The overall Eco-Rating assigned to each vehicle is calculated from a vehicle's Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas emission scores as prescribed by the Green Vehicle Guide. These scores range from less than 5 through to greater than 16 and are banded into Ratings from 1 to 5, where 5 is the highest rating (vehicles having the least impact on the environment) and 1 the lowest. See below for further details on the ratings.

Tip: Generally vehicles equipped with manual transmission produce better ratings than the same model equipped with an automatic transmission. Where no stars are listed information is unavailable on that particular vehicle make and model.

	5 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of 16 or more. 2013 Vehicle examples: Toyota Prius, Toyota Yaris
	4.5 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 15 and 16. 2013 Vehicle examples: Toyota Corolla Ascent
	4 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 14 and 15. 2013 Vehicle examples: Toyota Camry Altise, Mitsubishi Lancer, Toyota Aurion
	3.5 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 11.5 and 14. 2013 Vehicle examples: Hyundai Getz, Holden Commodore, Toyota Tarago
	3 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 9.5 and 11.5. 2013 Vehicle examples: Kia Carnival, Ford Falcon, Holden Calais
	2.5 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 8 and 9.5. 2013 Vehicle examples: Ford Territory, Ford Falcon Ute
	2 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 6.5 and 8. 2013 Vehicle examples: Nissan Pathfinder
	1.5 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score of between 5 and 6.5. 2013 Vehicle examples: Nissan Patrol
	1 Star - Air Pollution and Greenhouse gas emission score less than 5.

Information and Carbon Emission ratings are copyright of the Commonwealth of Australia and are reproduced with kind permission.