Electric car rental in Paris

Our fleet of 18 electric cars in Paris starts at €55 per day, with weekly bookings from €330 and monthly from €1,155. We deliver the car to you anywhere in Paris, and every booking is agreed with a manager before it is confirmed. Choose from the Renault Zoe, Fiat 500e, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, BMW i4, Audi e-tron and more — all automatic, all electric

What electric car rental in Paris with Rent-Trip includes

Electric car rental in Paris with Rent-Trip is built around 18 fully electric cars, all automatic, priced from €55 to €249 a day. You drive yourself, and the car is brought to you rather than collected from a lot.

How self-drive electric car rental works

Rent-Trip electric car rental is self-drive — you take the wheel, the car comes without a chauffeur, and the car comes to you. Every vehicle in the electric fleet is automatic, so the whole booking is a two-pedal affair: no clutch, no gear lever, nothing to relearn before you pull out onto the boulevard périphérique. Our electric cars seat 4 or 5 people, which covers a couple on a weekend run to Giverny or a family of four heading for Disneyland Paris with luggage in the boot. Because the car is delivered, you are not riding out to a rental lot on the edge of the city before your trip even starts. In our practice, the delivery window is the one thing travellers underestimate — the place and time of hand-over are agreed when you book, so build your first morning around that slot rather than planning a tight onward drive.

Booking and hand-over agreed with a manager

We agree both the booking and the hand-over with a manager, so the place and the time are fixed before you arrive. There is no self-service checkout and no automated key box on this page: you confirm the car, the dates and the hand-over point with a person, and that same conversation settles the practical details of your stay — whether you need the car at Gare de Lyon on a Friday evening or at your hotel near Montmartre on a Sunday morning. The figures that usually surface at the last moment — the deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discounts — are set out in the rental agreement, and that document is the only place where they carry a number. Read it before the car changes hands, not after: the excess in particular is the sum you carry yourself, and knowing it in advance is what decides whether you add extra protection. Ask the manager about it while you are still arranging the booking.

What is included in the price

• The car itself: 18 electric models from €55 a day, automatic, with 4 or 5 seats and no fuel to buy before you set off.
• Delivery to you: the hand-over point and time are agreed with a manager when you book, so the car meets you rather than the other way round.
• Self-drive use: the wheel is yours for the whole rental — no driver, no guided route, no fixed itinerary.
• Longer bookings on fixed multipliers: a week is the daily rate × 6 from €330, and a month is the daily rate × 21 from €1,155.
• Terms in writing: deposit, excess, delivery fees and discounts sit in the rental agreement, so nothing is settled verbally.
• A single contact: one manager handles the booking and the hand-over, which keeps the arrangement in one place.

Choosing your electric car rental in Paris by model and price

Our electric car rental in Paris fleet has 18 cars, all automatic and all battery-powered, spread from €55 to €249 a day. The list below covers every model we run, from a 42 kWh city hatchback to an 89 kWh premium sedan, with body style, drivetrain, battery, power and seats.

Electric cars in Paris by model, body and price

Small, mid-size or premium electric rental in Paris

• City EVs from €55: Renault Zoe, Fiat 500e and Renault 5 E-Tech — 42–52 kWh, 4 or 5 seats, front-wheel drive, the easiest of the fleet to park inside the boulevard périphérique.
• Crossovers from €75: Opel Mokka Electric, Cupra Born, Hyundai Kona Electric, Tesla Model Y, Volvo C40 Recharge, Ford Mustang Mach-E and BMW iX2 — 54–88 kWh and a taller seating position.
• Premium sedans from €145: Tesla Model 3, BMW i4, BMW i5, Mercedes-Benz EQE and Porsche Taycan — 60–89 kWh, rear-wheel drive, 283–408 hp.
• All-wheel SUVs from €179: Audi e-tron and BMW iX — the two heavier cars in the line-up, useful when a full boot matters more than range.
• Battery over badge: 42–65 kWh covers the city and short runs out of the ring road, while 82–89 kWh suits longer days without a mid-route stop.
• Seats: every car takes 5 except the Fiat 500e, which seats 4 — worth checking before you book for a group of five.

In our experience the Renault Zoe at €55 and the Hyundai Kona Electric at €89 answer most Paris bookings: the first for parking, the second for a 65 kWh battery at a mid-tier rate. If your trip mixes city driving with a longer run west, the 82–89 kWh group — Volvo C40 Recharge, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Mercedes-Benz EQE — spends less time plugged in. Whichever model you pick, the car is delivered to you and the hand-over is agreed with a manager when you book.

What an electric car rental in Paris costs per day, week and month

Rates for electric car rental in Paris start at €55 a day and reach €249 a day at the top of the fleet. Longer bookings follow fixed multipliers, so the total is predictable before you confirm anything with a manager: a week costs the daily rate × 6 and a month costs the daily rate × 21.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates

Daily rates run €55–€249, a week costs the daily rate × 6 from €330, and a month costs the daily rate × 21 from €1,155. The cheapest car in our electric fleet is the Renault Zoe at €55 a day, which works out at €330 for a week and €1,155 for a month; the Porsche Taycan at €249 a day comes to €1,494 a week and €5,229 a month on the same multipliers. The range in between is continuous — €59 for a Fiat 500e, €89 for a Cupra Born or a Hyundai Kona Electric, €109 for a Tesla Model 3, €159 for a BMW i4, €215 for a Mercedes-Benz EQE. Because the multipliers never change with the season or the model, you can compare two consecutive weeks against two separate weeks before booking, and the arithmetic is the same whichever class you pick.

What the rental agreement sets out

The deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discounts are set out in the rental agreement. The same agreement carries the terms behind the daily rate: the level of protection you have chosen, what the excess applies to, and whether any reduction on it was added to your booking. In our practice, the questions that come up at the last minute are almost always about the excess and the delivery fee, both of which are written down in advance. If something in the agreement is unclear, ask the manager who confirms your booking — the condition is agreed then, not improvised at the kerb.

Electric car rental in Paris for ZFE, Crit'Air and périphérique rules

An electric car changes the paperwork side of driving here: the low-emission zone that shapes so many trips into the centre treats a battery car differently from a diesel, and the ring road has its own rules. Below is what actually applies when you take one of our 18 EVs onto the street.

ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris and the Crit'Air sticker

• The zone: ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris (Zone à Faibles Émissions) covers everything inside the A86 motorway, which itself is excluded, and takes in the boulevard périphérique plus the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes.
• The sticker: a Crit'Air vignette goes on the windscreen; without one, entering the ZFE is formally prohibited.
• Banned classes: Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» are barred, with Crit'Air 3 restricted from 1 January 2025.
• Where electric sits: a battery car carries the cleanest classification, so the ZFE is not the obstacle it is for an older diesel.

Speed limits you will actually meet

The périphérique and the carpool lane

The boulevard périphérique now runs at 50 km/h, a city hall decision introduced in stages from 1 October 2024, starting on the inner ring between porte des Lilas and porte d'Orléans and covering the whole ring by 10 October. The Code de la route still permits up to 70 km/h there, so the lower figure is the one to drive by. A reserved lane on the left, between the Issy embankment and porte de Bercy in both directions, is open Monday to Friday 07:00–10:30 and 16:00–20:00 to cars carrying two or more people; using it alone is a fourth-class offence at €135, enforced from 2 May 2025 under an experiment that began on 3 March 2025. In our experience the ring is where a quiet electric drivetrain helps most — stop-start traffic is exactly where the battery recovers energy instead of burning fuel, so plan your crossing outside those two windows and the range figure you started the day with will still be there at the other end.

Charging your electric rental car in Paris

Every car we hand over is electric, so charging is part of the trip, not an afterthought. The rules, the apps and the parking differ from what you may know at home, and the details are agreed when booking. Here is how we explain it to clients at hand-over.

How charging works on a daily rental

Charging an electric vehicle splits into three practical cases: a home or hotel socket overnight, a public AC point on the street or in a car park, and a fast DC charger on the road. A domestic socket adds roughly 10–15 km of range per hour, which suits a Zoe or a Fiat 500e left plugged in overnight. Public AC points fill a city battery over several hours, depending on the cable and the point, while DC chargers are the quick top-up on a longer run. Our cars come with the cable the model needs, and we show you which plug goes where before you drive off.

Apps, cards and paying for a charge

• Izivia: a network common in car parks and along main routes out of the city.
• Hotel and car-park points: often cheaper per kWh than street charging, but usually need your own cable.
• Cupra Born and Hyundai Kona Electric: both at €89 per day, with a 58 kWh and a 65 kWh battery, so a public AC point tops either one up over a working day.

Parking, ZFE and charging in the same trip

A charging point on the street is also a parking space, and here that is where the two rules meet. Street parking in zone 1 — arrondissements 1 to 11 — is priced progressively rather than by the hour: €6 for one hour, €12 for two, €24 for three, €39 for four, €57 for five and €75 for six, with a maximum of six consecutive hours in one place. A charge point does not turn into free parking once the cable is unplugged. The ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris covers the area inside the A86 ring road, the boulevard périphérique included, and bans Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and unclassified vehicles; the Crit'Air sticker goes on the windscreen, and driving into the zone without it is formally prohibited. Because our cars are electric, they sit in the cleanest class and the restriction does not bite — but the sticker still has to be there. Check the app before you leave the car: a point that is free at 19:00 is often taken by 21:00, and the nearest alternative may be two streets away.

Documents, licence and protection for electric car rental in Paris

Driving in France on a foreign licence is legal, but the paper you hold decides what you may do and for how long. The rules below are the ones our manager checks when the booking is agreed, and they apply to every one of our 18 electric cars.

Licence rules for electric car rental in Paris

• EU/EEA licences: valid in France with no time limit, and no exchange for a French licence is needed while yours stays valid.
• Non-EU/EEA licences, visitors: you may drive on your national licence; if it is not in Latin characters, carry an official translation or an International Driving Permit alongside it — the IDP is a translation only and never replaces the licence itself.
• Non-EU/EEA licences, residents: driving is allowed for 1 year from the entry date stamped in your visa; if you move to France permanently, the licence must be exchanged.
• Holding period: the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago, and digital licences are not accepted by rental companies.
• IDP validity: the permit must be no older than 3 years at the time of rental.
• Minimum age and young-driver surcharge: not a single national rule — each company sets its own, so we confirm the condition when booking.

Insurance and protection on your electric rental

Every rental in France carries responsabilité civile by law, automatically included, covering injury and property damage caused to third parties within the country's legal limits — it does not cover the driver's own injuries. The base package of French companies also includes CDW collision damage protection, which caps your liability at the excess and covers repair and vehicle downtime, and TW theft protection, which covers theft, attempted theft and vandalism in a car park, again up to the excess. The excess itself is a fixed sum you pay on damage or theft; it is non-waivable and set by the protection level you choose. Buying franchise waiver — rachat de franchise — reduces it: Medium lowers the excess, Premium removes it or cuts it substantially. The exact figure sits in the rental agreement for your particular booking. Base protection excludes tyres under abnormal use, glass except in a collision, sunroof and panoramic roof, the underbody, wrong-fuel damage to the engine, lost or stolen keys, and damage from negligence or intent.

Speed limits and penalties you should know

The alcohol limit is 0.5 g/l of blood, or 0.25 mg/l of breath; for a permis probatoire it is 0.2 g/l and 0.10 mg/l, in force since 1 July 2015. Drink-driving at the young-driver limit costs 135 €, six points and possibly a licence suspension. A child seat is required for anyone under 10 years old or shorter than 135 cm — both conditions must be met before it becomes unnecessary — and the fine for going without reaches 750 €. Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in around 34 mountain departments; Paris and Île-de-France are not among them, so a booking here does not need them, but an Alpine trip does.

The covoiturage lane on the périphérique — the left lane from Issy to porte de Bercy, both directions, Monday to Friday 7:00–10:30 and 16:00–20:00 — is reserved for cars with 2+ passengers and carries a 135 € fine, enforced since 2 May 2025. Unpaid street parking in Paris is a forfait post-stationnement of 75 € for light vehicles, not a traffic fine. In our experience the licence check trips people up more often than the insurance: a digital licence on your phone will not be accepted, so bring the physical card, and if your permit is not in Latin characters, sort the translation or IDP before you fly. Everything else — the deposit, the excess level, delivery fees and any discounts — is set out in the rental agreement, and we agree the hand-over when the booking is confirmed.

Day trips from an electric rental car

An electric car makes day trips practical because the vehicle is delivered to you and the driving range of the fleet covers most routes out of the city and back within a day. The list below shows the destinations travellers ask us about most, with the distances you can expect and the battery capacity that suits each one.

Trips we are asked about most

• Disneyland Paris: roughly 32 km east of the city, an easy round trip on a single charge in any of our 18 cars, including the Renault Zoe at €55 a day.
• Versailles: about 20 km south-west; the palace and gardens sit within a short drive, and the 42 kWh Fiat 500e covers the return comfortably.
• Giverny: around 75 km west; the Monet gardens and the village reward an early start, and a 52–65 kWh battery handles the loop without a charging stop.
• Reims and Champagne: roughly 145 km north-east; this is the longest of the common day routes, so a 82–89 kWh model such as the Volvo C40 Recharge or the Mercedes-Benz EQE is the safer choice.
• Deauville and the Normandy coast: about 200 km north-west; a full day out, best planned with one charging stop each way.
• Mont-Saint-Michel: around 360 km west; realistically an overnight trip rather than a day return, and the one route where a premium sedan or SUV pays off.
• Loire Valley châteaux: south-west of Paris, depending on which château you pick; two or three properties in one day is a comfortable pace.

What to plan before you leave the city

Motorway limits apply once you clear the périphérique — 130 km/h in dry conditions, dropping to 110 km/h in rain — and the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris, which bans Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles, ends at the A86. Every car we hand over is electric, so the zone is not a concern for your own vehicle, but it is worth knowing the perimeter if you plan to drive back in through the boulevard périphérique during the evening peak.

Charging on the way out is straightforward on the main autoroutes, and the timing of any stop is agreed when booking. In our experience a top-up over lunch works better than waiting for a motorway stop at the end of the day.

Choosing the car for the route

For Disneyland Paris, Versailles or Giverny, a city hatchback is enough — the Renault 5 E-Tech at €69 a day or the Opel Mokka Electric at €75 both return with charge to spare. For Reims or the Normandy coast, move up to a crossover with a larger battery: the Hyundai Kona Electric at €89 or the Tesla Model Y at €125. If you want the drive itself to be part of the day, the BMW i4 at €159 or the Audi e-tron at €179 make the longer runs noticeably quieter.

One practical note: the weekly rate is the daily rate × 6, so if a trip turns into two or three days it is worth pricing the longer booking before you confirm — the saving is real, and the place and time of hand-over stay the same as agreed with a manager when you booked.