Best Electric Car Rental in Milan 2026

E-VAI is a genuinely unusual find on this list: a fully-electric, station-based car-sharing network covering more than 70 cities across Lombardy, with 112 fixed pickup points inside Milan alone and over 140 across the wider region. Unlike free-floating city car-sharing elsewhere in Europe, E-VAI cars are picked up and returned to designated "E-VAI Points" — a model that connects cleanly to all three Milan-area airports plus major railway stations, something none of the international direct brands individually match.

Its fleet of 300+ vehicles is almost entirely electric, and pricing runs by the hour or short block rather than a daily rental rate — genuinely useful for a Milan-based trip that includes a day trip elsewhere in Lombardy. It's less suited to a straightforward one-week airport rental, where EconomyBookings' aggregated multi-day pricing is the more practical comparison.

Maggiore was Italy's first company to offer self-drive car rental, founded in Florence in 1947, and remained the largest entirely Italian-capital rental operator until 2014. It's also the highest-rated individual EV supplier in EconomyBookings' Milan data — 8.0/10 across 685 reviews — with 5 Milan-area locations across the city's airports and center.

Since 2015, Maggiore has been part of Avis Budget Group alongside Avis, Budget and Zipcar — meaning its inventory and pricing now sit inside a larger international network even while retaining its distinct Italian branding. Booking Maggiore direct shows only Maggiore's own rate; comparing it against EconomyBookings' aggregated price confirms whether that rate is genuinely competitive.

Hertz operates at both Malpensa and Linate with an EV fleet that now sits around 10% of its total vehicles globally, after actively reducing its Tesla holdings since 2024 over resale and running-cost concerns. Its fleet has diversified into a wider mix of electric brands rather than being Tesla-led.

Booking direct only makes sense with an existing Hertz account or loyalty status; otherwise its Milan inventory is also reachable — and comparable against Maggiore, Europcar and others — through EconomyBookings' aggregated search.

Europcar runs its own dedicated Tesla rental page, useful for Milan travellers set on a Tesla specifically without comparing other suppliers first. Its Italy-wide network extends well beyond Malpensa and Linate into the wider country, and it's also one of EconomyBookings' listed partners.

Booking direct means seeing only Europcar's own rate and availability, without visibility into whether Maggiore, Hertz or SIXT has a better price for the same dates.

Avis operates alongside its own Italian subsidiary Maggiore under the same Avis Budget Group umbrella, giving Milan travellers a choice between the international Avis brand and the more locally-rooted Maggiore experience — worth comparing both, since pricing and specific EV availability can differ between the two even with shared corporate ownership.

As with Maggiore, Avis's direct site shows only its own rate; the aggregated view via EconomyBookings remains the faster way to check both siblings — and every other Milan supplier — at once.

SIXT's app-based booking process is a genuine convenience at Milan's airports, skipping most counter paperwork, and its premium-leaning fleet extends into electric models. It's a solid single-brand option for renters who value a fast pickup experience over comparing multiple suppliers.

The same single-supplier limitation applies here as with every direct brand — SIXT's own site shows only SIXT's rate for your dates.

Enterprise rounds out the international direct-brand options at Milan's two main airports, with loyalty benefits for repeat renters already inside its ecosystem. Its EV inventory sits alongside conventional vehicles rather than being a dedicated electric-first fleet.

As with the rest of the direct brands here, Enterprise's own site shows only its own rate — the aggregated comparison via EconomyBookings remains the more reliable check before booking.

DiscoverCars is a large, credible aggregator worth a second look — bigger supplier count, all-fees-included pricing — but no dedicated electric-vehicle landing page could be found on its site for Milan, so EV listings sit inside general results rather than as their own filterable category the way EconomyBookings, E-VAI and even Europcar present them.

Its underlying inventory overlaps significantly with EconomyBookings' network, so it remains a reasonable cross-check — just a slower one for isolating electric options specifically across Milan's three airports.