Mevo have added the Suzuki Swift to their network, and are giving out $20 in free credit to celebrate.
Redeem by 16th May 2024.
For me, the credit expires 31 May 2024 at 11:59PM. Seems that for others the expiry is 30th June 2024 at 11:59PM.
$20 credit for referrer and referee.
Same, Expires 30th June 2024 for me.
Thanks op
If I'm not live in Wellington but traveling to soon can I use this? Seem like it ask for address when signup
It doesn’t matter, address is mostly for insurance only. Anyone can sign up but their service areas are only Auckland and Wellington (also Hamilton but it’s less flexible).
Thanks mate I will give it a go
Never used it before. Any good?
I've used them! You can rent a Tesla if you've never driven one for fun $30p/hr , goes zoom zoom :)
Is there any other fees beside insurance we need to pay? Got $40 from signup+redswift here
The only 'other' fees are if you pick up/drop off at an airport location - it attracts an airport surcharge. The surcharge is charged against your payment card, but otherwise your account credit can be used as you like.
I took a BYD for a spin about a month ago in Auckland. Had it for 2 hours and dropped it off at the airport - so got the airport surcharge ($30) against my card and the account credit covered the 2 hour rental.
I took a 5 day long weekend in wellington, and used them extensively.
12 trips, ~$300 spend (no fuel / charging or parking cost). Not bad. Last time I had a normal rental car it was $150 for a day + fuel for a Yaris cross (not as nice as the mevo fleet cars). And parking at our wellington hotel was $40 a night… (granted street parking could have been cheaper).
Basically treated it like an Self drive uber. But also took a few scenic drives, given we had access to nice cars. Drove transmission gully (which I have never done before) in a polestar which was quite nice.
I am a bit of an enthusiast, but hadn't driven any of the three EV models in their fleet, so it was nice to add the polestar, model 3 & Atto3 to my list which previously was Leaf (AZE0), kona, mg zs ev, e-golf, ioniq (classic), Model S, EV6, BMW i3
Car's are quite beaten up, I guess that comes with the territory of a share fleet. Takes a few minutes to photograph & report damage before departing (can do exterior damage before unlocking if you don't want to pay for that time).
One car had two brightly coloured womans G strings in the back seat footwell :)
Standard insurance excess is $2500, which I am ok with, but would be a lot for some.
Not being a Passenger service vehicle, car seat laws for kids apply.
Compared to using uber, you end up doing a lot of walking to get car's.
On Sunday, the entire wellington central area was empty of car's, with all available cars parked at the edges of the zones.
Thanks mate! I live in Wellington so I know what you mean by them disappearing to the outskirts. I used it for a take home ride Thursday night since I was in the city, so brought home to the Hutt, and drove back to work the next day before 8am. Managed to find a park right outside work too. Fantastic!
A bit pricy to use too often, but if the trains are down like normal, then no reason why I can't get a car for the evening.
Found 3 more codes on Cheapies that still valid and give you $10 each if you haven't use it before.
AIRPORT (Expired Dec28)
FIRSTTRIP (Expired Dec28)
COMFORT (Expired in 2 weeks after you added)
Other expired codes:
MORECARS
WQTMA50
POLESTAR
NIGHT
QBDAY
QUEENSBDAY
EXPERIENCE
MEVOSUPREME
MEVOSUMMER
AUCKLAND
SURVEY15
MATARIKI
MATARIKI22
MERRYMEVOXMAS
VDAY2023
REGULR
KAPAI
RAUMATI
LOKESHC1
They need to expand the operating zone in Auckland asap.
I had the impression this week that alot of the cars had been deliberately parked away from normal distributed spots, to areas towards the fringes of the Auckland zone, often 2 or 3 cars parked one behind the other. Anyone else notice this?
On my account, it expires on 30 Jun 2024.