EVs are a terrible choice for a rental vehicle if you are away from home. I know a guy who traveled somewhere for work and was given a Tesla as a rental. He was happy at first until he realized that the hotel he was staying at didn’t have any charging stations available and that he couldn’t find any other charging station that worked nearby. He barely made it to the only Tesla charging station in town which was on the other side of the city with an almost dead battery. Then he realized that the fast charging feature was broken and had to stay there for hours while his car was being trickle charged.
I made a similar comment not noticing I was in the electric cars instance a few weeks ago and got down voted to hell, but it’s absolutely not practical for a rental. I wrote up a whole point by point thing on why, but essentially it boiled down to rental cars typically being used on your vacation time, and most people don’t want to go out of their way to find a place to charge an EV while using their limited vacation time. If renting for a road trip, no one wants to add hours of drive time to the trip for charge time either. They need a better, faster charging solution.
EVs are a terrible choice for a rental vehicle if you are away from home. I know a guy who traveled somewhere for work and was given a Tesla as a rental. He was happy at first until he realized that the hotel he was staying at didn’t have any charging stations available and that he couldn’t find any other charging station that worked nearby. He barely made it to the only Tesla charging station in town which was on the other side of the city with an almost dead battery. Then he realized that the fast charging feature was broken and had to stay there for hours while his car was being trickle charged.
I made a similar comment not noticing I was in the electric cars instance a few weeks ago and got down voted to hell, but it’s absolutely not practical for a rental. I wrote up a whole point by point thing on why, but essentially it boiled down to rental cars typically being used on your vacation time, and most people don’t want to go out of their way to find a place to charge an EV while using their limited vacation time. If renting for a road trip, no one wants to add hours of drive time to the trip for charge time either. They need a better, faster charging solution.
I think it VERY much depends on the city and it’s charging infrastructure.
It’s definitely not something a rental agency should be giving out in an area with poor infrastructure.