when it tried to position itself as a leader in the rental car industry by being the first to offer its customers the opportunity to rent an electric car. As a writer I hold in the highest esteem said recently, it was a “saga of how some self-important Wall Street bozos totally mismanaged the Hertz campaign to make electric cars part of its fleet. In the aftermath of their idiocy, they managed to set the EV revolution in America back years.
Those of us who own Teslas know the feeling we got when we sat in our cars for the first time and looked out over then uncluttered dashboard with nothing but a huge touchscreen in our field of vision. The Tesla ecosystem may be intuitive to those who designed it, but it isfor those who are seeing it for the first time. What is the windshield wiper stalk for most cars is the gear shift.
If you have plans to hop in your rental and immediately cover a lot of ground, an EV may not be the right choice,suggests. That’s because there is no guarantee of how much range will have when you leave the rental lot. Rental companies require only that EVs be returned with the same state of charge as they left the lot with. Most do not have DC fast chargers on the premises, so plan to spend some time at the first charger you can find.