Do rental car companies require you to return an EV fully charged?
The ad pamphlet in the Hertz office says if you break down or lose power, or there is an unfortunate sudden blazing car fire, you will be given a voucher good for an equivalent or upgraded gas powered car at no cost to you.😃
Probably would have been a good idea for Hertz to first supply EVs to their decision makers, rather than dump them on their poor renters.
Uh, nope. Tom Brady can keep all the charging to himself. Whoever he spokesmodels for.
🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍
On a business trip where timing is tight anyway, the last thing I would have wanted would have been to have to grouse around for an EV charging station.
I guess the key to this problem is money.
Supply exceeds customer demand.
Will Hertz call for more legislation to force people to rent EVs?
Good old climate change virtue signaling. These guys are divorced from reality but do not know it.
Hertz is finding out the hard way that the part of their business model involved in selling off used rental cars suffers when they try to sell their used electric cars.
The good news is Tesla Humper can pick up a cheap car from Hertz
The real problem is nobody is renting them.
For a recent rental they almost begged us to take an EV.
With a free upgrade from a compact.
We were going to be traveling 150 miles from the city. No way we were going to risk getting stuck in the mountains looking for a charger.
And we weren’t going to get up hours early to top off batteries somewhere near the airport for turning it in fully charged.
Another example of corporate virtue signaling by CEOs who even with their Harvard MBAs lack common sense.
The big surprise was how much Hertz wanted per day.
Last time I checked even w corp discount was 130/day.
Ride-hailing and ride-share drivers have been damaging Hertz’s EVs at a higher rate than the company anticipated, prompting it to shift more EVs into its regular rental fleet. Scherr said that led to an oversupply that dragged down the vehicles’ revenue per day over the quarter.
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois hardest hit.
How will they virtue signal to other liberals?
Govt dreams meet reality.
“Our in-fleeting of EVs will be slower than our prior expectations,” Stephen Scherr, the CEO of Hertz, said..”
This drip should be “out fleeted”.
EVs are ok if you only use them to run around town and you own a single-family home with your own charger so you can charge them every night. Otherwise, not so much.
I recently went on a trip with the Mrs to Nashville & surrounding areas. Rented a “Mystery” car from Avis, because it was the cheapest option. The agent said, “Looks like your mystery car is… a Honda EV!” Within 1 second I told him nope, and get me another car. No way was I going to be stuck with that horse crap.
Eventually, there will be ten billion Tesla EVs produced.