We are a company specializing in eco-friendly and luxury transportation to and from Toronto Pearson Airport from in and around York Region. We operate out of the Aurora/Newmarket area and have provided exceptional service for hundreds of clients. We also provide transportation for weddings, nights out, functions, parties, business meetings etc. We are one of only two GTA companies offering HYBRID vehicles for clients who would like comfortable transportation in an eco-friendly "green" hybrid vehicle.
These days, hybrid cars are commonplace. Nearly everybody knows somebody who drives a hybrid. How quickly things have changed. Just a few years ago, only environmentalists, techno-geeks, and celebrities drove them (at least, according to many media reports). A March 2002 article on Salon.com called hybrids, “the elite feel-good toys of the limousine liberal set.” The article poked fun at Prius-driving Cameron Diaz, who explained hybrid technology on the Tonight Show. “It, like, shuts down and then all of a sudden you just step on the gas and you’re going. It’s unbelieve—I’m thrilled. I’m so excited, ‘cause it’s, like, our future. That’s our future.”
Well, the hybrid future is quickly becoming the hybrid present. Along the way, gas-electric auto technology shed its elite image, appealing to an ever-growing number of regular folk interested in saving money at the pumps or doing their small part to reduce our dependency on oil. Then what do we make of the emergence of hybrid limousine services?
Alan Hayes, founder of York Region Limousines has been driving limousines for 15 years, feels that the 2008 increases in gas prices, forced limo companies around the country to charge more. “Clients are paying a fuel surcharge without knowing it". Instead, we pass the hybrid’s fuel savings to the customer. “I don’t charge the rates that big luxury cars charge. Our rates are above a taxi but lower than most black car services.
So far, the Camry & Prius hybrids have not posed a problem in terms of cargo or passenger space. The backseat passenger space is only a couple of inches smaller than a Town Car. Most business travelers are single or double passengers with one or two pieces of luggage. We qualify clients when the reservation is booked. The cost savings of hiring a hybrid to take you to the airport or to an urgent business meeting may transform hybrid limos from a power play of the elite to a smart dollars and cents decision. Yet, for us, it’s not merely about economics. “I show up in a hybrid, and it raises consciousness. More and more people are realizing that our resources are not infinite. The clients realize that people like me are out there trying to do something positive. It raises awareness.” The long-term vision of us and the other hybrid limo entrepreneurs is to have an ecolimo service available in every major city.
Please contact us for more information:
Most of the GTA: 416-992-3811
Newmarket, Bradford etc. areas: 905-727-8600
Outside the GTA, toll free: 1-866-789-6520
or email: eco-limo@bell.net
