ACRISS News and Update

Stay ahead in mobility with the debut of our new styled newsletter. Each issue brings you fresh insights into the latest trends shaping the car rental and mobility industry as well as the latest news on ACRISS projects and services.

At ACRISS, we are dedicated to empowering our members and the industry by developing and maintaining standards that drive excellence for both businesses and customers. From advancing best practices and coding for autonomous vehicles to enhancing rental location and policy content - our initiatives help you and your customers make confident choices.

We’re also committed to leading the shift toward electrification and decarbonisation, offering practical resources like CO2 emissions data, alternative fuels, FAQs, and guidance on renting EVs. We explore trends and look at current challenges and opportunities. Stay connected with every issue at www.acriss.org/news/.

Explore electric mobility with our new EV News feed!

Introducing our new EV News feed on our website in support of electrification and to compliment our current EV pages with FAQs and guides to renting an EV .
EV News feed will give you the latest articles and trends on EVs including Hybrids from our experts in the field.

Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles, or AVs, are transforming mobility with intelligent automation, improved safety, and elevated passenger experiences.

According to the SAE International J3016 standard, there are six levels of automation, from Level 0 (no automation) to Level 5 (full automation), each defining the degree of driver involvement required. Stay informed—explore the advancements shaping the future of autonomous travel.

ACRISS, we are enhancing our car classification matrix by developing new coding specifically for Autonomous Vehicles—focusing on Level 2 (partial automation) through Level 5 (full automation) as defined by the SAE standard. This marks the first addition of new codes to the ACRISS Car Classification System in over a decade, reaffirming our commitment to industry leadership and innovation.

Supporting the Environment with a look at New Alternative Fuels

As the automotive industry accelerates toward electrification, internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles will continue to be a significant presence for decades to come. 

ACRISS explores alternative solutions to support ICE mobility, ensuring that existing fleets are not left behind in the transition. From sustainable fuels to hybrid integrations, we’re examining pathways that balance innovation with continuity.

Introducing Vehicle Features Coding

We’re excited to announce the launch of Vehicle Features Coding, a new initiative designed to help our car rental members deliver richer and more detailed vehicle features data to their customers.

What’s Coming?

In the first phase, Vehicle Features Coding will include essential environmental data, such as:

• EV Battery Range

• CO₂ Efficiency Coding

This data will be distributed to our partners from the ACRISS Cloud using data from our own ACRISS Car Code List, ensuring accuracy and consistency across platforms. We're also aiming to incorporate both EV Battery Charging Times and CO₂ Efficiency Coding from the Car Code List as part of the initial rollout.  Future plans include Safety, Tech and Comfort features.

Customisable and Flexible
Car rental suppliers can choose to:

• Use standardized data from the Car Code List for each vehicle model, or

• Upload and manage their own data to better reflect unique fleet offerings

Exportable with Visuals
All data can be provided and exported via ACRISS Cloud — including vehicle images, making it easier to present complete and visually rich information to customers.  Our goal is to expand Vehicle Features to include further features to support car rental companies in providing additional information on vehicles and models available to rent.

For more information please contact info@acriss.org

Best Practices for Content

Improving Location and Policy content to enhance customer booking experience.

With the help of our members and Associate members we have been looking at ways of improving the current content offered through different platforms. Looking at friction areas and pain points for car rental companies as well as customer complaints starting with our recently published new Coverages and Insurance guide.

ACRISS goal was to created best practices for the industry to follow to enhance the customer experience and reduce friction point in both policy and location content with focus on the following:

• More concise, well formatted and user friendly text
• Avoiding abbreviations, duplications and confusing terminology
• Including regional and regulatory content where needed
• Clear direction and guidelines for key policy areas
  
• New Coverages and Insurance guide available in different languages
• Review of existing policy and location content, categories and fields to improve customer experience
• Support car rental members in creating and updating content

ACRISS Cloud is Expanding

ACRISS Cloud currently offers our members and non members the ability to distribute their car images and data records via ACRISS Cloud to all partners.   We are looking to expand on this by offering our new Vehicle Features coding data with our partners and in the future adding location and policy content updates via ACRISS Cloud to facilitate both our car rental suppliers in their updates to multiple partners and also our partners with better processes and enhanced content.

• New Vehicle Features CO2 efficiency coding and EV
  battery range
• Location content updates
• Policy updates
• Adding more partners and
  non-members

Our Mission: To develop, implement and maintain standards for all Mobility services including Car Rental and Vehicle with Driver Service Industries for use in all distribution systems enabling customers to book with confidence.