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.
“And we weren’t going to get up hours early to top off batteries somewhere near the airport for turning it in fully charged.”
so, apparently that answers the question: do the EVs have to be returned fully charged ... easy enough to spend 5 minutes topping off an ICE car in a service station near the airport ... NOT so easy to spend time hunting down an EV charger and cooling your heels for an hour or longer while the battery charges ... that alone would be a deal killer for most business travelers ...