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"Hertz was aiming to make 25% of its fleet electric by 2024, but is finding 11% is too much. Given there are whole nations pushing for 100% EV by 2035 there seems to be a message here… Let’s thank Hertz for doing that experiment for us.
"It turns out EV’s didn’t work well in the high mileage Uber-type system because the drivers 'drove them into the ground' and repair costs were much higher than expected. So Hertz moved some EV’s to the leisure hire department, but then the revenue per day in the leisure sector fell. Presumably people didn’t want to hire them....
"Great nations don’t force citizens to buy heavier cars with shorter ranges and bigger repair bills in order to stop bad weather one hundred years from now."~ Jo Nova, from her post 'Hertz backpedals on rush into EV rentals: CEO says repair costs can run “twice as high”'
Great nations don’t force anyone to do anything. But as an owner of an EV it’s blatantly obvious to me why they’re not popular for rentals, but that tells us nothing about how practical they are for most of us. Renters typically travel long distances each day and are away from home where they don’t have a fast charger to plug into each day. A very different situation to those who own their own vehicle and generally use it for driving around the city.
ReplyDeleteIdeology can encourage you to buy an EV when you shouldn’t, it can also stop you buying one when you should