{"id":4028,"date":"2013-01-10T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T01:03:28","slug":"its-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/01\/10\/its-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Electric!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WeCar has gone <em>electric<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>College employees can now check-out the electric Nissan LEAF WeCar online for college business use.<\/p>\n<p>Below are instructions for using WeCar for authorized Bellevue College business travel. If you would like to use a WeCar for personal trips please go to the WeCar Personal\u00a0Membership website.<\/p>\n<p>Register today, get you member card, make a reservation and go!<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>When using the LEAF plan for trips under 80 miles round-trip or identify a charger at your destination.\u00a0 Make sure you &#8220;plug-in&#8221; the LEAF when you return.\u00a0 Use the info on the Blink charge card in the vehicle to start the charging.<\/h3>\n<h3>NEW USERS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Complete the Business Use Agreement<\/strong><strong><br \/> <\/strong>Before you make a reservation you must complete a WeCar Business Use Agreement acknowledging you are over 21 years old, you are a Bellevue College employee and that you will be responsible for additional fees and charges incurred beyond the standard reservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Become a WeCar Business Use Member<\/strong><strong><br \/> <\/strong>Go to the WeCar Business\u00a0Membership website to become a member. You will be contacted by a WeCar representative to show or send a copy of your license to confirm membership.<\/p>\n<h3>RETURNING USERS<\/h3>\n<p><strong><strong>Select Your Mode of Travel<\/strong><br \/> <\/strong>Before making a reservation, review the Local Travel Guidelines Chart (pdf) to assure you are using the most cost effective mode of travel for your trip&#8217;s distance and duration. For day trips that are short in distance and long hours use mileage reimbursement and for overnight trips use Enterprise Rental Car or mileage reimbursement through a travel requisition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Approval<\/strong><strong><br \/> <\/strong>You are responsible for assuring that your trip is authorized by the budget authority under which the trip will be allocated <strong>before <\/strong>taking your trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepare Reservation Information<\/strong><strong><br \/> <\/strong>Reservations are made for a minimum of 1 hour in 1\/2 increments and <strong>must include a budget number in the memo line<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Reservation<\/strong><strong><br \/> <\/strong>Go to the WeCar Business Travel Reservation website to complete your reservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmation Email &#8211; Budget Authority &#8211; Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forward\u00a0each confirmation email to the appropriate budget authority for their &#8220;OK&#8221;. Be certain there is a budget number listed.<\/li>\n<li>Have the budget authority email the confirmation to Finance at WeCar@bellevuecollege.edu with their approval and copy you.<\/li>\n<li>If proper authorization does not reach Finance <strong>you<\/strong> may be responsible for the charges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>RATES<\/h3>\n<p>College Business Rates (includes fuel):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$8\/hr<\/li>\n<li>$45.54 for 24hrs<\/li>\n<li>$91.08 Weekend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>+ tax, includes rebate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Personal Rates (includes fuel):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$8\/hr<\/li>\n<li>$35 overnight<\/li>\n<li>$55 Weekend (Fri 6pm to Mon 8am)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>+ tax<\/p>\n<h3>DO&#8217;s and DON&#8217;TS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make your reservation with plenty of room to return on time.\u00a0 <strong>Returning the vehicle late costs $50.00<\/strong> and your reservation costs only what you actually use, not what you reserve.\u00a0 Running late?\u00a0 Call 877-599-3227 to reduce the penalty.<\/li>\n<li>Use your electronic key card to open your rental and close your rental.\u00a0 Use the vehicle keys to lock the vehicle during your reservation period.<\/li>\n<li>Refuel at below the vehicle when below \u00bc tank <strong>ONLY using the credit card included <\/strong>in the vehicle and your member ID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Return the vehicle late.<\/li>\n<li>Lock the doors when you finish your reservation.\u00a0 Leave the keys inside the glove compartment and use your key card to closeout the reservation and lock the vehicle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the WeCar site on the MyBC Travel Site for instructions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeCar has gone electric. College employees can now check-out the electric Nissan LEAF WeCar online for college business use. Below are instructions for using WeCar for authorized Bellevue College business travel. If you would like to use a WeCar for personal trips please go to the WeCar Personal\u00a0Membership website. Register today, get you member card, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/01\/10\/its-electric\/\">...more about It&#8217;s Electric!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[108,109,245],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-employees","tag-wecar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}