Posted on 12/23/2024 11:51:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
"Enjoying your rental? Take it home with Hertz Car Sales."
Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell it to you for an extra cheap good deal. One Hertz customer took to Reddit to show off a screenshot of the deal he got directly from Hertz, a 2023 Tesla Model 3 with 30,000 miles on the odometer for $17,913.
I wouldn’t normally consider buying a used rental car from Hertz unless I was extra desperate, but the low miles and bargain basement pricing might be worth a rethink. A new Model 3, for example, will cost at least double that price. Heck, maybe it’s worth grabbing. For under $18,000 I can look past a lot of ills, including driving a Tesla. Maybe this is the $25,000 Tesla that Elon was promising?
Tesla has an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on its battery packs, and there’s still a good bit of that battery warranty remaining on this particular car, assuming Tesla will honor it on a used rental car. That might go a long way toward easing my anxiety over buying a rental Tesla. These batteries don’t seem to fail often, but people who aren’t familiar with EVs are renting them and doing god knows what to charge them up. Preconditioning? Limiting max charge to 80 percent? I doubt these are common rental car practices.
For what it’s worth, there are a ton of used Teslas on the Hertz Car Sales site, but anything priced this cheaply shows well over six digits on the odometer, and isn’t nearly as appealing. It’s unclear if this Redditor just got a particularly good deal, or if Hertz is just trying to sell everything not nailed down before the end of the calendar year.
With the Juice gone, have they hired Barry Obama as their new pitchman?
“If you like your rental car, you can keep your rental car.”
I was a maintenance man with a job at a housing project. The people would leave me alone if I gave them something. They liked tape. One guy wanted some screws. Then he looks inside the truck when I asked “Why don’t I just give you the keys and you can take the whole truck”.
Isn’t Elon the one losing on this?
Very deceptive headline.
Rental companies routinely sell off cars after a couple of years.
Some of those Teslas are probably good deals for city drivers.
I have a diesel sedan in which I've gone 810 (Interstate) miles on a single tank.When I got home I stopped at a gas station near me and filled it up again in about 4 minutes. But you can't buy new diesel sedans in this country because of EnviroWackos like the ones you find at Rat Party Headquarters. Disgusting!
EVs, it seems to me, have a limited lifetime. He took a good profit already and is probably looking multiple NEXT THINGS to invent and invest in.
I used to get these offers every time I rented.
For years.
After year 5 you are going to have a pretty lame automobile.
Everybody knows about these batteries, everybody.
Not after he sells the cars to the suckers.
The batteries have an eight year warranty.
The more I learn about Teslas, the better their cars seem. Not great for cross country. In the city, pretty decent.
When a company is selling something at a deep discount, it’s called a fire sale.
But that term should probably not be used when selling used Teslas.
Just sayin’.
They aren’t offering to just give you the car.
What’s happened is the media has turned against Tesla.
Also true Hertz is getting rid of them.
Just wait until there is “toxic waste disposal fee” charged when you try to get rid of an electric car.
They’re mobile superfund sites.
They will do that and then tell the police that you stole it.
shocking...
I’ve heard that most junk yards refuse to accept EVs because of the possibility of catching fire.
As a matter of fact it already happened in California
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-model-s-fire-junkyard-video
Oh no!
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois not pleased
I’ll give them a “Hertz doughnut” for one of their Teslas.
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