Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It's Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals
Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It's Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals
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Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It's Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals
EVs work when you are home where you are guaranteed to have a parking spot with a charger so it charges overnight without any hassle.
People rent cars when they are away from home. Nobody wants to have to worry about finding a working charging station in an unfamiliar city and have to spend hours there waiting for it to trickle charge because the fast charging is unavailable or broken.
Tangential but why are all of the fast charging stations broken? Traveling fucking sucks with an electric car. It wasn’t this way a year ago
I have learned that in order to be able to transfer that much power without overheating, the charging cable would have to be impractically thick. The way to get around this is to have a cooling system integrated into a thinner cable. This makes it prone to breakages. If the cooling system doesn't work the station defaults to slow charge.
Because America can't run anything as a service, fast charging infrastructure is expensive to maintain and make a profit off of but there was lots of grant money available to build them (and VW had to build a ton of them as part of a legal settlement) but there's no public funds to maintain them, so they aren't.
Because the American public can't be trusted to treat anything well..The shit I saw working retail just working the checkout stand was fucking astonishing. Nobody reads prompts or listens to anything and end up breaking things due to ignorance.
I’ve never seen a fast charging station broken in my area. All the slow chargers are constantly out of service though.
Aging Wheels' recent EV road trip video suggested that the situation has improved compared to a year ago.
I got crucified in the electric vehicles instance for pointing this out, but 100% this.
See your first mistake was going to an enthusiast community and criticizing the thing in any way.
There's a specific enchantment you have to do before you can criticize the thing in any community. It varies from one place to another, and if you don't utter it before you criticize the thing, you obviously are a troll and must be expunged.
For example, if I go to a Table Top gaming community to bitch about 40k players, the legion will show up in force to show me exactly why I'm the worst example of a gamer. But if I first show admiration to the dedication these players show to painting these figures, I can then bitch about how the dumb space jocks take over the shop I like for weeks at a time.
If I go to a Linux community, so like, most of Lemmy, I cannot criticize Linux before first casting a curse on Windows. Even though Linux has a shitty user interface and everyone knows it.
Not to mention the majority of people, at least in the US, have never charged an electric.
It would take a 4th grader 30 seconds to figure it out. Let's not pretend this is rocket science.
Yeah — exactly. I travelled to Hawaii last year and the cheapest rentals were all Teslas. My initial instinct was — no I don’t want to worry about charging it, or spending my limited vacation time driving around looking for a charger that would charge it in a reasonable amount of time. I went with a gas car. However, these rental companies never have the vehicle I actually want — a hybrid.
What benefit does a hybrid bring to the dealer? They didn't care about how many mpg you get and it is just added cost.
I just went through this last week. It was very polarizing in my feelings on EVs. I've never had a more stressful rental experience