"The only thing that gives me a bigger charge than driving a Hertz Tesla is Gisele. "
Hertz is still around ?
Wasn’t Hertz just selling off their remaining inventory of cars as they were in bankruptcy?
Now they’re buying Teslas?
Hardly Mainstream. Maybe 1 in 10,000.
This is not including Hybrids, but electric only.
"The only thing that gives me a bigger charge than driving a Hertz Tesla is Gisele. "
LOL
They’ll have to discount them heavily. They would have to rent to me for free and then I’d probably say TANSTAAFL.
Acronym of there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch; something advertised as being “free” will invariably have hidden costs. 1966, Robert Heinlein
Had OJ been driving a Hertz Tesla instead of the Bronco he might have gotten away.
In before all the luddite shrills scream coal powered blah blah.
Get with the times boomer. Coal is less than 20% of total electricity made. Natural gas is by far the largest share. With nuclear and renewables both individually making more than coal does. Put another way 40% of the total USA power is from nuclear and renewables so if anything these EVs are more nuclear and renewables powered than coal BY FAR.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
No GT350s? One thing those t-cars don’t have, despite their acceleration capabilities, is the awesome sound my Ram Hemi has through the borla cat back exhaust. Gotta say, it’s the best sounding truck on the street. I don’t get to hear it very often but Mrs rktman took it to the store the other day and I went outside when she left. Noice!!!!!
Who would want to RENT an electric vehicle? Sounds like a great way to wreck a vacation!
Could I ask on question of much better informed people here?
When EV availability started I heard someone interviewed who said “No, your regular socket for a reading lamp or a TV can’t be used. You have to have a big socket like the ones for a clothes dryer installed in your garage or wherever you run your power line for the car charge.”
Is that true or still true?
I did hear a person on a business meeting trip heading out of town with a rental EV was told “They have a row of chargers at the biggest parking structure downtown. You can plug it in there.”
Hope they have really long extension cords .... long way between charging stations here in Texas.
I know a car rental company I won’t be renting a car from.
I’ll be looking for the rental car company that starts with an “E” instead, until they too go all-electric.
Somebody should be starting a car rental company that promises “no EVs here”. I bet they would eat up the competition that has all-EVs.
At a guess, I’d say that Hertz is getting some sort of subsidy from the Govt. Or is doing this to ingratiate themselves with the DemonRATs is search of some rent.
And where do u fuel them?
I’m guessing they got a HUGE break on the cost. Even if Tesla made $1 on each one...it’s the numbers that act as “advertising”.
What a great subject for a new “ruined vacation” reality series on the Travel Channel-”A Car Ruined My Vacation”-Teslas stalled with occupants getting robbed and assaulted on remote roads and tourist sites, sketchy neighborhoods, etc-sounds like a lot of fun...
THis is the loudest laugh in the universe...OMG this is going to put them out of business!
Man is this industrial strength stupid or what?
That’s roughly a $7.5 billion dollar deal.
YMMV
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