For sure if that's the use, that's a huge benefit. It doesn't exactly make a positive for the rental company though and they won't see the benefit the renter does on charging. If I'm using my personal car that's where I'm going when planning my route though.
Different areas have different requirements. If you have shorter commutes driving an ICE pisses away money. I could never match my EV with my 35mpg car with current usage, but I love my stupid high powered tuned turbo car so it stays.
100%. These are things that only end buyers will see the benefit of. Cost of repair is really the only benefit a rental company will see and it won't come from Teslas.
They can benefit from buying all the unwanted camrys, corollas, rav4s, and corolla crosses. Dealers only want hybrids or phevs.
I was referring to the rental car company purchase. I'm thinking the bulk of the EV purchase will go to Europe, and most of the ICE to North America. They had to learn something from the Hertz mistake.
It seems these socialist leaning Euro countries are not giving people the option. They have mandated these vehicles if people like it or not. Hopefully after a few elections things will change.
I'm sure there are incentives behind this.
I'd imagine keeping the vehicles charged was the biggest issue. The current business model requires the consumer to return the vehicle with the same amount of fuel. This takes just a couple of minutes. With companies turning cars faster than ever I can see how customers would end up with an EV that had little charge. Perhaps Hertz and others underestimated the amount of onsite charging capacity they would need?
They already dropped Euro7. But in general, I wouldn’t like Europe going too far in opposite direction, considering history and tendencies of current European political elite in that direction.
I believe the move is to decrease their EV fleet, that is clear, at least here in the USA or maybe better said moderate the purchase of them a little bit. They say many people do not want them to rent.
Yes, reading these links, to me, seems like the elected officials are in a bit of a panic right now with the "options" they are discussing.
There's been whole vehicle models kept alive at times just for rental fleets. Does anyone remember the Malibu classic from around 15 years ago? They made the old body style for an additional year next to the new one and all or nearly all of them went to rental car companies. They did the same with the Impala for a year too. They kept showing up with mismatched color interior panels because no one cared and the rental car company wasn't going to complain. I thought it was funny, but glad we were still getting them. That body style of Impala was the easiest car I've ever taken the interior apart in which made our jobs easy.
Not Russian roulette, well, maybe, anything dealing with a new technology is a chance.
"could" but didnt, it happened with the Electric Vehicles
Use a 50A breaker and #6 wire. You don't wanna do this twice. Use the best NEMA 14-50 receptacle you can, not the Home Depot cheapie. Or just get a Tesla and Tesla Wall Charger. Ha!
