expiredserra | Staff posted Aug 17, 2023 05:10 PM
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expiredserra | Staff posted Aug 17, 2023 05:10 PM
Hertz Electric Car Rentals: Reserve 2 or More Days,
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One tip - if you call the number on the back of any Visa credit card you have, they have pre-negotiated a flat rate of $80 for a tow up to 5 miles: https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/...enefit.pdf
The icing on the cake is how they still charged us for the entire rental period and they charged us for roadside assistance. Over $1,000 for 10 miles of driving. Plus the tow truck that ended up costing $200 out of pocket (which was a bargain)
All they offered us was a coupon for a free day on our next rental. Nothing else. Plus it was almost impossible to find an agent who would respond by voice.
* Your best bet is to blast them in tweets and they will finally get back to you and offer you, while nothing worth while unless you rent often.
However, charging at public chargers is about the same price as gas when you compare equivalent vehicles, i.e. F-150 Lightning to F-150 ecoboost. You're paying just as much and getting less convenience, and that's not an SD.
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The word gas is ambiguous. It can mean natural gas and it can mean Petroleum. The following is from Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) [eia.gov].
Natural gas 39.8%; Coal 19.5%; Petroleum 0.6%
I was surprised that at a small in-town location they had all the Tesla's, a Chevy Bolt EUV, and even a couple Polestars.
From the EPA website: "Even accounting for these electricity emissions, research shows that an EV is typically responsible for lower levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) than an average new gasoline car. To the extent that more renewable energy sources like wind and solar are used to generate electricity, the total GHGs associated with EVs could be even lower. (In 2020, renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity)."
Why are they asking if I want to add liability insurance with additional pay? Shouldn't that be automatically included?
What part does credit card cover? Does that come into play only after the initial insurance provided by the rental has exhausted?
Can you drive these for rideshare or delivery gigs? (Without needing disclose to them)
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From the EPA website: "Even accounting for these electricity emissions, research shows that an EV is typically responsible for lower levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) than an average new gasoline car. To the extent that more renewable energy sources like wind and solar are used to generate electricity, the total GHGs associated with EVs could be even lower. (In 2020, renewables became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity)."
It's indisputable that the immediate cost of EVs is much lower than traditional petroleum-burning cars.
What gets lost in the debate are the long-term costs. What happens to the resale value of EVs in 15 years when batteries start to fail? Where do expended batteries go? Which counties possess the raw materials to produce batteries and what are the repercussions of the world being wholly reliant in them for the supply chain? What is the human cost of mining rare earth minerals to produce batteries? And so on.
As so many other debates, this one just devolves into "I'm right, you're wrong" which is too bad.
It's indisputable that the immediate cost of EVs is much lower than traditional petroleum-burning cars.
What gets lost in the debate are the long-term costs.
EVs are more recyclable than ICE vehicles are... gas engines just rust away in junkyards, EV batteries get recycled.
A renewable sustainable electric-based economy would require considerably less total mining than a fossil fuel based one.
Tesla has a nice 40ish page report on this stuff here:
https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/T...Part-3.pdf
Plenty of similar sources out there if genuinely interested.
Can you cite any credit card that excludes EVs specifically from their rental car coverage?
The reason for renting a car on vacation is for convenience to be able to get where you need to go. EV infrastructure just isn't there yet.
Tesla might be ok. The availability and reliability of chargers is better, but you'd still need to go out of your way.
CCS charging cars (Bolt, Polestar, anything not Tesla). Forget it. Good luck finding a CCS charger, that actually works.
I'm not anti-EV. In fact, I own one now and have owned multiple different EVs in the past. It's great because I can charge it at home, and I drive a fixed number of miles to get to work and back every day.
It just doesn't work when I want to go on a road trip or go on vacation.
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The reason for renting a car on vacation is for convenience to be able to get where you need to go. EV infrastructure just isn't there yet.
Tesla might be ok. The availability and reliability of chargers is better, but you'd still need to go out of your way.
CCS charging cars (Bolt, Polestar, anything not Tesla). Forget it. Good luck finding a CCS charger, that actually works.
I'm not anti-EV. In fact, I own one now and have owned multiple different EVs in the past. It's great because I can charge it at home, and I drive a fixed number of miles to get to work and back every day.
It just doesn't work when I want to go on a road trip or go on vacation.
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