See? Every problem has a solution. You’ve just got to think it through.
Posted on 01/01/2023 7:41:51 PM PST by lowbridge
Xaviar and Alice Steavenson wanted to find out what it's like to drive a Tesla, so they rented one from Hertz for a road trip from Orlando, Florida to Wichita, Kansas.
They knew that the electric car would need charging en route, but what the siblings did not expect was just how often they'd need to plug it in.
They realized it would take longer to charge the car after the weather turned so cold in late December.
However, it got to the point that the "battery would drain faster than it would charge," Xaviar told Insider.
When they set off they could drive for at least two and a half hours before needing to charge the Tesla. "We ended up having to stop every one to one and a half hours to charge for an hour, then an hour and a half, then two hours," he said.
"So beyond the lost time, it also got to the point it was between $25 and $30 to recharge. Just in one day, we stopped six times to charge at that cost," Xaviar said.
Hertz said on its website that renting a Tesla was "always cheaper than gas," according to Xaviar, but he said that claim was far from the truth.
The first time the siblings called Hertz, Xaviar said the agent told him he'd had "had nothing but Tesla calls today – I have no idea why they're having issues."
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How stupid do you have to be to take one of those as a vacation rental?
It seems to me that the rental car companies are making a major mistake getting into the EV racket. Unless we see significant breakthroughs in battery technology, EVs only make any kind sense to me as around-town, short-distance vehicles that one charges at home. When I’m in a rental car, I’m usually on the road on a vacation. Wasting time trying to find and use charging stations would be the last thing I’d want to do in a vacation/travel situation.
But, but, but, Oversized electric gold karts are the fastar 0-60, or something.
\EV fanbois
In some places, they’re queued 10-15 deep waiting for an available charger & then have to wait another couple hours to charge and if it’s cold, it may not charge. Before you know it, charging stations will need to be enclosed & heated so the vehicles take a charge.
You will never get there...and you will LIKE it.
The heater uses more energy than the motors.
I would not be surprised if there is some shenanigans going on in the charging world to de-platform Tesla, by slowing charges or diminishing actual charges. The Left hate Musk now and that would one way to hurt him. This story may not even be true. I am not a fan of EVs and will hopefully never have to own one.
Gee ANOTHER story about how crappy Tesla’s are. It’s almost as if globalists got something against Elon Musk.
Would not go undetected with Tesla brand chargers. I suspect the Tesla car would catch it from a non-tesla charger as well.
But it does seem the complaining is directed at only Tesla
I would not be surprised if there is some shenanigans going on in the charging world to de-platform Tesla, by slowing charges or diminishing actual charges. The Left hate Musk now and that would one way to hurt him. This story may not even be true. I am not a fan of EVs and will hopefully never have to own one.
Or every EV brand is having the same issues, but only Tesla failures are publicized.
This may be a more accurate statement than you realize.
When it is cold and the battery pack has been allowed to drop below a certain temperature there is a heater that warms the battery up for up to an hour or more before any charge can be accepted. And this heating process may take a considerable amount of energy. As the battery charges depending on the temperature outside, the heater may have to kick in again before the process is able to continue.
LOL
This was an upgrade from the earlier EV models that unspooled a long cable connected to a socket at home.
Symbolic of the entire push for “green energy.”
Our central-planner’s long-term schemes and plans will fail.
It will take a lot of suffering though until they admit defeat.
It’s well known that Tesla limits battery capacity in rental vehicles in order to prevent excessive driving of their cars. Surprised the reporter didn’t know this.
(my imitation of a Tesla Cheerleader)
Or maybe this one:
If you rent a gasoline car with three quarters of its fuel tank stuffed up, you won’t do any better.
” only Tesla failures are publicized.”
As much as the fools that bought them paid, laughing at them is easy.
Virtue signaling gone wrong after spending that much should be mocked.
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