How will they overcharge for gas with these?
Hertz orders 100k Teslas
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#12How will they overcharge for gas with these?
My question is how am I supposed to charge it in time for delivery before my plane leaves.
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#13How will they overcharge for gas with these?
Enterprise hasn't figured that out either; I've been enjoying their electric rentals.
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#14How will they overcharge for gas with these?
"If you don't recharge the car fully before returning we'll charge the battery for you at the cost of $.XX / kWh..."
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#15I say this having never driven a Tesla, but are they really suitable rental cars? My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car.
I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this. Maybe it's a non-issue.
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#16How will they overcharge for gas with these?
My question is how am I supposed to charge it in time for delivery before my plane leaves.
So if they're doing it the way EHI's been doing it: there won't be a need to recharge. I've received half-full EVs from EHI and returned them almost entirely discharged without any surcharges.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably cause it’s hard to get people to charge them before they get returned
I'm not sure that should be a problem so long as they are returned . I don't know the exact turn-around times for rental car companies but you can charge a Model 3 to full in 5 hours or so with a 240. Though I think another issue could be wear and tear on the battery as you're not supposed to charge to full - can rental companies software lock the charge rate? Not yet as far as I know.
Wasn't tesla already doing it though?
https://electrek.co/2021/05/24/tesla-found-guilty-throttling...
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#18I wonder the pricing.
Tesla doesn't seem to have any problem with demand so I would speculate they're paying the advertised price.
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#19I say this having never driven a Tesla, but are they really suitable rental cars? My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car. I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this. Maybe it's a non-issue.
In what sense? They’re quite a bit quicker than ICE cars and regeneration is something you need to get used to, but nothing that’s radically different.
With these the big issue would be charging them - people might not know not to go to a gas station.
Also wonder how the “full tank” policy will work with EVs where ideally you want to hover around 80%
Where they might not be suitable rental cars is the reliability. There are some horror stories where people wait 6+ months for their cars to be fixed, based on parts availability, but Hertz probably has some service requirements built in the contract.
Re: Hertz orders 100k Teslas
#20I say this having never driven a Tesla, but are they really suitable rental cars? My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car. I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this. Maybe it's a non-issue.
>My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car.
>I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this
Not a Tesla owner, but I did take one for a 30 minute test drive. There wasn't really any learning curve except for that when you let your foot off the accelerator (gas?) pedal, the regenerative braking kicks in, and you start slowing down very quickly. I didn't touch the brake pedal for the whole drive. Got used to it in a few minutes.
The hardest thing for me was the cruise control. Only a subset of autopilot features were enabled and I found it a bit difficult to operate.