Posted on 05/09/2024 2:28:47 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
You might understand the shock that Hertz customer Joshua Lee felt when he saw the receipt for his rented Tesla Model 3. After returning the vehicle back to Hertz following a weekend vacation in Los Angeles, Lee noticed he was hit with additional charge of $277.39 on top of his initial reservation price. Why was he charged so much additional money? According to Hertz, that was the cost of refueling the electric Model 3. Unfortunately for Lee, the further he pried the company for information, the more Hertz doubled down, and the more confused he became.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
He forgot to rewind the batteries
I just tell them firmly that we will only sell for $10 million cash, not a cent less. They hang up right away. I don't know if it's the same bunch or different ones who call a few days later, though. Doesn't matter, they get the same offer. No takers yet.
LOL, how true........
On Free Republic, we don’t read the article. We read the headline, maybe the first or second sentence, then have a knee jerk reaction to what we think the story is about.....
Fuel can be food, wood pellets, kerosene, biomass, sugar beets, coal....
Their policy is return same level as rented or pay a $35 recharge fee ($25 for gold club members). It is in the article.
With a gas car, it takes 5 minutes to fill up but with an EV, it could take hours. Someone had posted an article here about charging a Tesla in the winter, took a couple hours and was only to get 1/2 full because half the energy was going to heating the car while he waited and I want to say it cost him around $100.
If it smelled like weed, he should have noted it in the pre-inspection. I take my iPhone and video the inside/outside of the car. Takes all of two minutes. Rented a car on the east coast and the driver wiper was trashed, bought a replacement at an auto store, kept the receipt & bad wiper. My wife was like, what are you going to do if the don’t reimburse you & I said I’ll take the good one off and they could have their old crappy one. They gave me $25 credit so I was ok with it.
It takes a special kind of moron to rent an electric car.
Rented from Hertz just one time in Kona , Hawaii at the airport . A nightmare ! Went through 3 vehicles in 4 days due to various malfunctions . Had to fight like hell for some compensation .
Article says that - per the receipt he showed them - he returned it at 96%, same as when he picked it up.
Should bring up an even more interesting and pertinent question: WHY THE HELL DOES ANYONE RENT FROM HERTZ AT ALL?
Yes, it would seem so.
Sure. But this was Los Angeles. No heater. Lots of solar. That’s why I called out Edison. They are literally dumping excess power during the day. We produce more power during daylight hours than we use. It could be free, or at least subsidized. Would be a big boost to business to give subsidized electricity during daylight hours. But Edison et al are not in business to give away electricity and instead want to jack us all for energy produced by homeowners who paid for the installs to generate it. It’s a total scam.
But this could be any number of factors. Maybe he returned it to a location that had no chargers. Maybe they have infrastructure overhead costs to recoup. Or maybe Hertz are just crooks. I once rented cargo van for a half day. Nothing happened i just drove it, unloaded it, and returned it. When I returned it they tried to hit me up for a whole bunch of damage to the rear bumper. “The guy didn’t mark that damage on the paper when you rented it”. ‘Dude, it’s a 12 year old cargo van. It’s obviously got a lot of old damage to the bumper. You think I did all that damage in 4 hours? Nobody hit me. I didn’t hit anyone.’ I wasn’t gonna take their crap. The manager said next time take a video and walk around the car. Which I do now, though I don’t rent vehicles much.
He did, they wouldn’t give him another car. Hertz is the worst.
“Clear proof of DEI hiring at Hertz”
Yeah. Hertz definitely has problems. But the guy renting a Tesla is a doofus. They deserve each other.
I've posted elsewhere that local Hertz staff has told me that maintenance costs are very high; so between that and the absurdly low rental rate, I can see why, despite whatever "incentives" they might be getting to field them, it might not be the yellow-brick-road it once was for them.
I suppose I could have found the bargain I wanted if kept hunting, but for all the usual reason people have, I was about 60-70% committed to the idea. I wanted to see what would happen when the subsidies ended and the market right-sized itself. They are a marvelous car when everything's working. Really -- 11/10 and actually inspiring for being American made.
I thought this mod was ideal though I'm not sure it's ready for prime time (ie affordable).
It was noted & they still charged him? I’d have filed a claim with my credit card company.
According to the final receipt, the customer gave the Model 3 back to Hertz with the battery 96% full, the exact same state of charge it was picked up with.
Your objection is answered.
“I stopped at a Hertz supercharger on the way back to the airport. ... This way I paid the lower Tesla rate.
Dude has no case.”
Blueflag dude makes no sense.
That’s a huge relief. I was just going to set myself on fire over this guy getting overcharged, but now I can put the cigarette lighter away and change out of my gasoline drenched clothing.
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