The car is considered a necessity in our society, because the need for more rapid movement to solve our daily problems is becoming more acute. Today, owning a car remains a matter of taste and not necessarily a matter of money because buying a car can be done in various ways from paying in cash ior applying for a leasing contract type. In other countries, such as Romania, second hand car market remains the main source of purchase and sales of cars for medium and low budgets. In the most urgent cases, we can benefit of the speed and comfort of a car even for predetermined periods and in this case, calling a car rental service is becoming the most convenient solution, representing the car rental market is in continuos developing in the same time with the automotive manufacturing industry. Nowadays the car is no more a luxury, nowadays the car became a big necessity !
Thus, we find that from year to year, the number of cars circulating on the streets is growing, even in this period of economic stagnation, which reinforces the idea that we enunciated it in the beginning of the article, that the car is a necessity rahter than a luxury. The large number of vehicles entails a growing demand for fuel, a resource that it is unfortunately, finite, which we all know that in a not too distant future, will be replaced with other automotive power solutions.
The component of environmental protection is also very important, especially for big cities. In this regard there were given directives from the European Union which limits the degree of pollution in the busiest areas, conducting to measures against the local administration in case of breaking these rules on the amount of emissions recorded in some areas.
Therefore, specialists in the automotive world have issued alternative solutions in terms of alternative fuels such as hybrid engine or electric engie, adding that in the future, fuel power stations will be replaced with electric charging points, which will give the car some autonomy. This idea was very well received by consumers. At the begining of their manufacture, electric or hybrid cars were extremely expensive, large manufacturers have developed models for both regular cars and limousines or luxury SUV cars. Models such as the Toyota Prius, Volkswagen Up, Lexus RX 450 or Honda Civic can be bought at prices significantly close the conventional motor. As for the Toyota Prius, we can say that is the reference model of the new generation of cars, the best-selling hybrid model, especially in the United States can be found even in the car rental centers.
However, some car enthusiasts consider unacceptable to drive a car with such engines, not accepting the idea that a car can be included as a way of working together with our household objects. However, as mentioned above, most of the drivers acknowledge the problem of finite global resources of petrol. Given that the car becomes a necessity of the XXI th century, these alternative and ecological replacements must be unanimously accepted and increasingly taken more into account when we want to buy a car.