Electric car rental in Spain

Electric car rental in Spain starts at €30 a day for a Citroen e-C3 and runs to €90 for a Jaguar I-Pace. Between those two ends sit 17 electric cars, from the Fiat 500e at €32 to the Tesla Model 3 at €72, all automatic. We deliver the car to you in Madrid or Barcelona, and the booking is agreed with a manager.

What electric car rental in Spain looks like with Rent-Trip

Rent-Trip is a self-drive electric car hire service where the car comes to you and a manager agrees the booking. That single difference — delivery to the point you agree — shapes how the whole process runs.

How self-drive electric car hire works with us

Rent-Trip runs self-drive electric car hire: you drive, we deliver the car to you. You pick the model and dates, a manager confirms the booking with you, and the car is brought to the point you agree. Nothing in the process depends on you reaching an office first, so the trip starts where you actually are rather than where a rental desk happens to sit. The booking is agreed with a manager rather than dropped into a queue — questions about the car, the hand-over and the return are settled in that conversation before you drive. In our experience the hand-over conversation is also where most first-time EV renters ask their real questions: where the charging cable lives, how the car behaves in traffic, what to do at a charging point. The hand-over details are agreed when booking. And that conversation is worth having before you arrive, not on the day — it takes five minutes and saves an hour of guessing.

Where our electric car hire operates

We run electric car hire in Madrid and Barcelona, and the delivery point is agreed with a manager when you book. Those are the two cities on this page, and between them they cover a city stay with day runs out of town and a longer route that starts in one of them. Because the car is brought to you, the useful question is not which office to reach but where you will start driving. Answer that first — a hotel on the edge of the city, an address in the centre, a pick-up the morning you land — and the booking conversation becomes short. In our practice, renters who name their starting point before booking get their car handed over faster than those who decide on the day.

17 electric cars and 754 vehicles behind them

This page carries 17 electric cars; site-wide the fleet is 754 vehicles. The two numbers answer different questions. The 17 are what you choose from here, from a Citroen e-C3 at €30 a day up to a Jaguar I-Pace at €90, every one of them automatic and electric. The 754 are what sits behind that choice when something shifts — a car delayed on return, a model already out on a longer booking. A larger fleet matters when a booked model is unavailable: Spanish consumer rules give you the right to a replacement car without extra charge, and if the replacement is a class below, the price should come down. In our experience that rule is worth knowing before you sign anything, because it is the renter who has to ask for it.

Choosing your electric car rental in Spain models and prices

Seventeen electric cars sit on this page, from a €30 hatchback to a €90 crossover, and every one of them is automatic — no manual gearbox anywhere in the class. Prices below are our daily rates for electric car rental in Spain; the weekly and monthly figures are worked out from them.

Electric car rental in Spain by model and daily rate

Body type and seat count decide comfort more than the rate does: the four-seat Fiat 500e at €32 and a five-seat crossover at €45 sit close enough that price alone will not pick the car for you.

Automatic transmission and drive type across the fleet

All 17 cars on this page are automatic, with drivetrains split between front-wheel, rear-wheel and all-wheel. The Cupra Born and both Tesla Model 3 listings put power to the rear; the Jaguar I-Pace is the all-wheel-drive option, and the Ford Mustang Mach-E comes as rear-wheel drive or AWD. In the Spanish market a manual gearbox is the baseline and an automatic is a separate, dearer class — so an all-automatic electric class removes the one choice most renters here still have to make. If you have never driven a manual and the booking screen offers you a cheaper car, check the transmission line before you commit.

Hatchback, crossover or sedan for electric car rental in Spain

• Hatchback: the Citroen e-C3, Fiat 500e, Renault Zoe, Peugeot e-208, Renault 5 E-Tech and Cupra Born — the shortest bodies and the easiest to park in tight Spanish streets.
• Crossover: the Citroen e-C3 Aircross, BYD Atto 2, Peugeot e-2008, Mercedes-Benz EQA, Ford Mustang Mach-E and Jaguar I-Pace — more space and a higher seating position for longer drives.
• Sedan: the Tesla Model 3, at €72 and €86 a day depending on the listing — the longest body here and the top of the range.
• Seats: every model carries five except the Fiat 500e, which is a four-seater, so a family of five should start from the five-seat list.

We keep hatchbacks and crossovers in both Madrid and Barcelona, and the exact car is confirmed with a manager when you book.

How much electric car rental in Spain costs per day, week and month

Our electric car rental in Spain runs from €30 to €90 per day, with weekly bookings from €180 and monthly from €630. All 17 cars on this page are electric, automatic and delivered to you.

What drives the daily rate

• Model and body: a Citroen e-C3 hatchback starts at €30 a day, a Tesla Model 3 sedan at €72, and the Jaguar I-Pace crossover tops the range at €90.
• Power output: rates climb with horsepower — 113 hp in the e-C3 against 400 hp in the I-Pace.
• Seats and space: the 4-seat Fiat 500e sits at €32, while 5-seat crossovers such as the Peugeot e-2008 start at €45.
• Booking length: the longer the booking, the lower the effective daily cost — weekly is charged as six days and monthly as twenty-one.

Weekly and monthly rates

A week in the Citroen e-C3 costs €180, and a month €630 — the same car, the same automatic gearbox, the same delivery. The multiplier is fixed: weekly is your daily rate times six, monthly times twenty-one. On the €90 Jaguar I-Pace that works out at €540 for a week and €1,890 for a month, so the longer you book, the more the headline daily figure drops. In our experience, travellers who plan a loop through Madrid and Barcelona almost always save by booking the full stretch at once rather than extending day by day.

What is not in the daily rate

The deposit, any insurance excess, delivery fees and discounts are not part of the figure you see here — they are set out in the rental agreement and confirmed when you book. The same goes for the minimum age, the young-driver surcharge and which cards we accept: a manager agrees those with you at booking, before anything is signed or charged.

One more thing worth knowing: Spanish consumer rules require the advertised rental price to include every mandatory charge you cannot drive without — compulsory third-party liability cover among them. So the €30 you see on the e-C3 is the price you drive away on, not a teaser that grows at the counter.

Picking the right EV for Electric car rental in Spain trips

Match the car to the road you will actually drive, not to the one you imagine. Our electric car rental in Spain covers 17 cars from €30 to €90 a day, and the difference between a €32 Fiat 500e and a €90 Jaguar I-Pace is mostly about range, seats and how much motorway you plan to sit on.

City hops, coast runs and long motorway days

Hatchbacks (€30–€58): the Citroen e-C3, Fiat 500e, Renault Zoe, Peugeot e-208, Renault 5 E-Tech and Cupra Born are the easiest cars to park and thread through old-town streets, and they charge fastest on short top-ups.

Crossovers (€40–€90): the Citroen e-C3 Aircross, BYD Atto 2, Peugeot e-2008, Mercedes-Benz EQA, Ford Mustang Mach-E and Jaguar I-Pace sit higher, swallow more luggage and hold their range better at steady motorway speed.

Sedan (€72–€86): the Tesla Model 3 is the longest-legged option in our fleet and the one we hand over most often for multi-day routes between Madrid and Barcelona.

Power as a proxy for comfort: anything from 177 hp up — the BYD Atto 2, Cupra Born, Tesla Model 3, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Jaguar I-Pace — pulls cleanly on the 120 km/h autovía limit with four people and a full boot.

Seats, luggage and the four-seater trap

Seat count is the filter most people skip. Fifteen of the 17 cars take five; the Fiat 500e takes four, and at €32 and €34 a day it is the cheapest way into the class — which is exactly why it gets booked by couples and then turns up on a family of five. If you are travelling with three adults in the back, start from the five-seat list and check the boot, not the rate.

What we ask before we confirm a model

• Route length: a single city break and a Madrid-to-Barcelona run need different cars, and we match the model to the distance you describe.
• Charging access: tell us whether you can charge where you are staying — a car with a smaller battery is fine if it tops up overnight.
• Seats and child seats: the number of passengers and the height of any child under 135 cm decides both the model and the equipment.
• Return point: one-way trips change which cars are practical, and we confirm what is possible when booking.

In our experience the model people ask for and the model they need are rarely the same one. Describe the trip — days, passengers, roughly how far — and we will point you at the two or three cars that fit instead of the whole list.

Charging an electric rental car in Spain

Charging is the one part of running an EV that changes how you plan a day, and here the network is dense enough that it rarely becomes a problem — provided you know which plug you are looking for.

Where you plug in an electric rental car in Spain

• Endolla Barcelona: the municipal charging network in Barcelona, with posts across the street grid — useful if you park on the street overnight rather than in a garage.
• Punto de recarga: the Spanish term for a charging station; on motorway service areas you will mostly meet fast DC units, in town slower AC posts.
• ZBE access: the distintivo ambiental — the DGT environmental sticker — governs entry to Zonas de Bajas Emisiones; a battery-electric car qualifies for the zero-emission badge, so clean-air zones that exclude older diesels are open to you.
• Hotel and garage charging: many underground car parks have their own posts, but the terms of access are agreed when booking, not published here.

Practical charging on a self-drive electric car rental in Spain

Ranges across our 17 cars differ more than the prices do. A Citroen e-C3 at €30 a day and a Renault Zoe at €34 are city cars — plan a charge roughly every two to three hours of motorway running. The BYD Atto 2 at €45 and the Peugeot e-2008 at €45 stretch that further, and the Tesla Model 3 at €72 with 283 hp is the one on this page built around long-distance driving, which matters on the 600-plus kilometres between Madrid and Barcelona.

Charging itself is not included in the rate, and we do not bill you for electricity — you pay the network directly, at the post or through its app. What the rental agreement does set out is the battery level the car comes with and the level it goes back at, along with any charge for returning it lower.

What to settle before you drive off

Ask at hand-over which connector the car uses and whether a cable is in the boot — Type 2 for AC posts, CCS for fast DC. Then check the return battery level in the agreement before you sign anything, because that is the figure you are held to at the end of the trip.

One habit from our own hand-overs: on a long run, top up at a motorway service area while you stop for coffee rather than hunting a post in the city centre at the end of the day.

Documents and driving rules for electric car rental in Spain

Spain treats an EU or EEA licence as fully valid for as long as it has not expired, with nothing extra to add. A licence issued outside the EU or EEA works too, provided it is in force, the holder is old enough for the equivalent category here, and no more than six months have passed since they took up ordinary residence in the country. The DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip, and where the licence is not in Spanish, either a certified Spanish translation or a permit drawn up on the Geneva or Vienna model does the job.

For licences in Cyrillic, Arabic or characters rather than Latin script, that translation point decides the whole booking. In practice, an international permit or a certified translation is what makes the document readable to a Spanish officer.

• EU/EEA licence: valid as it stands, no permit and no translation needed while the card is in date.
• Third-country licence: valid for driving here; residents have six months from taking up ordinary residence before they must exchange it.
• Permiso Internacional de Conducción: a one-year supplementary document, shown only alongside the passport and the national licence.
• Non-Spanish wording: carry an official certified translation, or a permit issued on the Geneva Appendix 9 or Vienna Appendix 6 model.
• Passport or ID: the original, in the name of the main driver.
• Credit card: in the name of the main driver, for the deposit.

Speed limits are uniform across the country: 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on an ordinary rural road, and in town 20 km/h on a single shared platform, 30 km/h on a street with one lane each way and 50 km/h where two or more lanes run in one direction. Speeding fines follow the DGT table at 100 EUR, 300 EUR, 400 EUR, 500 EUR or 600 EUR, with two to six points attached, and going more than 60 km/h over the limit in town or 80 km/h over it outside town becomes a criminal offence rather than an administrative one.

The alcohol limit is 0,25 mg per litre of breath, dropping to 0,15 mg for drivers in their first two years and for professionals; above 0,60 mg it is a crime. A phone in the hand costs 200 EUR and six points, a missing belt or child seat 200 EUR and four points, and children up to 135 cm must travel in a child restraint. Fines carry a 50% discount when paid within 20 calendar days. Because an electric car is quiet and pulls away faster than most drivers expect, we suggest setting the speed limiter before you leave the delivery point.

Insurance and protection on your electric car rental in Spain

Every electric car rental in Spain carries Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil — the compulsory third-party cover that Spanish law builds into any agreement. It pays for harm to other people and their property, and it applies even when the driver at the wheel was not named in the contract. The legal limits behind it are €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury, however many people are hurt, and €15,000,000 per incident for property damage. What that policy never covers is the car itself or the driver — which is exactly where the optional products below come in.

What the optional protection products actually cover

• CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): removes your liability for damage to the car from a collision with another vehicle or an object, minus the excess — vandalism is excluded unless it happened while you were using the car.
• THW (Theft Protection): covers full or partial theft of the car and damage caused by vandalism, again minus the excess.
• SCDW and SPCDW: partial and full buy-out of the excess that CDW leaves with you. Neither works if CDW was not taken or if a CDW exclusion applies.
• STHW and SPTHW: the same partial-and-full logic applied to the theft excess left by THW.
• WWI (Glass and Tyres Protection): a separate option for windscreens, windows and tyres, which base CDW normally leaves out.

The excess, the deposit and the price you are quoted

The excess — franquicia in Spanish — is the sum you pay yourself when there is damage, and it is printed in the agreement whether or not you bought a buy-out. Its size depends on the company and the vehicle class; there is no single official figure. The deposit is a pre-authorisation blocked on the card for possible damage and extras, and the amount is confirmed before you sign. One consumer-law rule is worth knowing: any advertised price must already include every compulsory charge you cannot legally drive without — the mandatory third-party cover, the young-driver surcharge and the like. The deposit amount, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement, and we confirm them with you when booking.

Checking the car before you drive away

• Damage record: every scratch and dent must be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you leave, signed by both sides, with a copy kept by you — otherwise the damage is charged to you.
• Model substitution: if the booked model is not available, you may demand another car at no extra cost, even one class higher; if you are given a lower class, the price must come down.
• Cancelling: if the car does not match the agreed conditions — an automatic, four doors — the booking can be cancelled and the prepayment refunded.

Electric car rental in Spain what to settle before booking

An electric car is a self-drive booking: you drive, the vehicle is brought to you, and the arrangement is agreed with a manager. What follows is what to settle in that conversation, so nothing is left to the hand-over.

What to confirm before the booking is agreed

• Dates and delivery point: tell the manager where you will start driving from and when — the car comes to you, so the useful detail is your address, not an office.
• Model or class: the page carries 17 EVs from €30 to €90 a day, and if a booked model is unavailable, Spanish consumer rules give you the right to a replacement car without extra charge.
• Weekly and monthly rates: weekly is daily x 6, monthly is daily x 21 — so a €30 car runs from €180 a week and from €630 a month.
• Deposit, excess and delivery fees: these are set out in the rental agreement, and the manager states them before you sign anything.
• Documents: your driving licence, passport or ID, and a credit card in the main driver's name — the details are agreed when booking, not assumed.

Charging is the one thing to plan around

An EV removes fuel stops but adds charging stops, and the two are not the same kind of stop. Ask the manager at booking which charging connector the car uses, because Spanish public networks are not uniform, and a vehicle that takes an hour on a fast charger can take all evening on a household socket. In our experience the practical fix is to charge overnight where you park rather than hunt for a charger mid-route. Barcelona and Madrid both have public charging networks, but on a long drive across the country the gap between them is what matters.

The paperwork side is short, but it is not zero

Spanish traffic rules apply to you as the driver, not to the rental company: speed limits run 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on conventional roads and 30 km/h on most urban streets with one lane each way. Speeding fines sit between €100 and €600 depending on the limit and your speed, with a 50% discount if you pay within 20 days. Alcohol limits are 0.25 mg/l of breath for most drivers and 0.15 mg/l for drivers in their first two years. The car itself carries compulsory third-party insurance by Spanish law, with limits of 70 million euros per incident for personal injury and 15 million euros for property damage — that cover is always in place, whoever is driving.

What we suggest you do last

Book the car, then leave the rest of the planning alone until the manager confirms the details back to you: dates, delivery point, model, and the terms of the agreement. If anything in that confirmation does not match what you asked for, say so before the booking is finalised rather than at the hand-over.