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I look forward to not having to give a flying fuck about fuel level upon returning my next rental car. Enabling rental companies to fill up their vehicles on-site without requiring becoming a gas station alone is a glaringly obvious rental EV win.
Electric cars are actually a very good fit for many rentals. Thinking through my last 5 rentals. A wedding that was 1 hour from an airport, ~100 miles RT. A ski trip where I wanted to drive from Denver to my AirBnB near Winter Park Colorado, ~200 miles RT. A hiking trip where I needed a second car for a point-to-point car shuttle (New Hampshire!), ~120 miles RT. A bachelor party where I needed to drive from the airpo…
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Resetting the system and clearing out any personalization. For example most rentals will have a huge list of contacts saved from people who paired with Bluetooth and unthinkingly let the car have all the contacts (which I was guilty of doing until I got wise to it).
I bought a used Kia a few years back, and the GPS/head unit had many addresses still as saved destinations. I could have easily figured out who owned the car, which shouldn't happen.
I've wanted to try a Tesla for a while now with a view to purchase. There's nowhere near me to rent one (Turo isn't available in my state) and I'd gladly rent one from Hertz. This is a move that could do wonders for EV sales. Exposing people, without commitment, to EVs may just quench some lingering doubts re: charging, etc.
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Why wouldn't they just apply the same usury rates they apply for gasoline tanks that are not given full to electric cars?
I can do an after hours return with a gas car at 3am and spend the 3 minutes to fill up the tank before I leave it on the lot. You can't really do that with an electric car unless you want to pay a extremely high fillup cost
(I mean a charging point that can charge the car in 5-8 hours, which I assume should be straightforward for a new commercial installation with a 3-phase supply etc.)
Hope they disable some of the Tesla Easter eggs. Having the road diagram turn into a rainbow and Don’t Fear The Reaper blast out of the speakers because you hit an on screen button four times is pretty unnerving if you’re familiar with the car and really wouldn’t be what you want having just got off a long flight and driving in a city you don’t know in a car you don’t know.
A car is a tool I use to get my family around from point A to B SAFELY. Its also a fairly significant chunk of debt, and I want it to last a long time and behave EXACTLY the way I expect it to. Every day.
Tesla really doesn't fit that bill atm
I look forward to not having to give a flying fuck about fuel level upon returning my next rental car. Enabling rental companies to fill up their vehicles on-site without requiring becoming a gas station alone is a glaringly obvious rental EV win.
I see it more cynically. It's more likely to be that if you don't return it on a full charge then you will face a hefty recharge fee.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38052601/hertz-buying-100...
Hertz is just out of bankruptcy, and immediately they order 100,000 Tesla to be delivered, and so paid I guess, in just 1 year!
Let's imagine that they have the Tesla with a very good discount: 30000$ a piece.
That would cost them:
100 000 x 30 000 = 3 000 000 000 $
I have hard time to believe that they have that cash in hand, or that they can borrow that much!
In my opinion, this might be the long awaited event that will finally blow the bubble:
Like for Evergrande, market will discover that Hertz can't afford that, then the stock of Tesla will tank, then panic and crazy stock crash will follow.
What do you think about that?
Hope they disable some of the Tesla Easter eggs. Having the road diagram turn into a rainbow and Don’t Fear The Reaper blast out of the speakers because you hit an on screen button four times is pretty unnerving if you’re familiar with the car and really wouldn’t be what you want having just got off a long flight and driving in a city you don’t know in a car you don’t know.
christ, I want a cool electric car more and more. but reading stuff like this all the time is just re-enforcing my decision to leave Tesla off that list of potentials. A car is a tool I use to get my family around from point A to B SAFELY. Its also a fairly significant chunk of debt, and I want it to last a long time and behave EXACTLY the way I expect it to. Every day. Tesla really doesn't fit that bill atm
Once you know those truths, Tesla isn’t a bad choice as their computers are at least partially upgradeable and the interface changes have been decent from my perspective (although this is hugely subjective).