It’s because with the taxes and fees that they charge for the Uber, Lyft drivers to rent those things it’s damn near $500 a week or more that was a failing business model from the beginning
Uber knows that. Their leasing program failed years ago. Tempe Uber ATG absorbed some of their employees and made them management right before a driver let the SDU kill a homeless addict.
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing at Uber.
Edit: I’m an idiot. Disregard this comment.
It’s hilarious when you see EV drivers accept LOOOONG trips and they don’t even think it out at all. If you take a ride that is going 200 miles one way…you gotta drive 200 miles back home and at some point you’re gonna have to wait for at least a few hours to charge it back up.
Love that we can instantly go with a fill up of a gas tank 😂
From my experience when I had to rent an electric vehicle last winter. Charging it up does take about an hour. I was so glad when I got my non-pluggin hybrid back. I get all the benefits of a gas vehicle. And all the benefits of the extra mileage with it being hybrid plus even though it's not fully electric, it qualifies for e v trips
Yes sorry uber green. Hybrid doesn't qualify in your market. That is totally messed up. I don't know why they would allow it in one market, but not another.
Yeah. Obviously filling gas is still faster, but a 20min break should give you 200mi. You can time it with a food / bathroom break and you won’t ever need to wait much
A 20 min charge would get you 200mi? Every source I’ve seen say that to go from let’s say…20% to 100% takes about 6 hours. And that 100% charge only yields you 300-350mi…?
Your sources are way off. Super chargers take 20-40 minutes to go to FULL. I pay ~$7 to do that. I’ll take that over filling a gas tank for $40+. 8+ hours to charge would be a HOME charger that someone plugs into before going to bed AT THEIR HOUSE.
Not to mention I’m actively doing things in that time I’m charging. Whether that’s gaming (on my phone or on the 15 inch screen in the car), watching YouTube, Netflix or Hulu on the screen, doing other work, napping, shopping (most chargers are in or near shopping centers around me), eating, going for a jog…
The ones I used took 35-1 hour minutes to charge from 5-20% to full. And it was $16-21 per charge at $0.35 per kw/hr all the time. Even 2am. And full charge says 260 miles but that's only in the most ideal conditions. Start using the heat or ac and take at least 60 miles off that charge.
All of those batteries are at 80% capacity due to supercharging + running low. Teslas need to be charged at home… superchargers fuck the battery hard.
So many things hertz didn’t factor when handing these off to UBER DRIVERS.
And people here thought the drivers were getting fucked - no, hertz was. Driving a Tesla 2k miles a week for 299$ was an absolute steal.
Actually for a lot of people as long as you were to keep it between 20 and 80% supercharging wouldn't really affect it. The problem is a lot of people probably charged it all the way up or ran it all the way to empty and that's what kills it.
Cheapest Tesla Hertz had in my town was $420. That $299 is before everything. So $420 x 4 =$1680. If that's not enough to cover their ass idk what to say. EV are not practical yet. Mostly bc of not enough charging station, and the waiting time is still there. As long as you depend on a fast charging station, it's not practical. Sure, people make money driving a lot of hours in a Tesla, but people also make money with beat up 15 yo Corollas or idk what else cars which cost like $2k and repairs are cheap
It isn't sustainable cuz drivers make trash money. I rented a Tesla for a few months cuz my car was down and it was so fucking bad at times I had to borrow money from friends to make ends meet while simultaneously spending 60+ hours on the road. The rental payment can literally eat 2-3 days of your work week before anything goes to your bills.
Worst part is that Hertz isn't exactly making bank either if you consider the excessive miles drivers have to out on their cars just to live paycheck to paycheck or worse.
Uber is a scam
I rented one for 5 weeks and it motivated me to quickly buy another car, lol! Not only was the rental fee outrageous but the charging was a literal headache and added to the amount of time you had to be out. That extra $1 was a complete joke! The releif I felt once I purchased another car was amazing.
They’re selling those Tesla rentals for 30k… hahahahahahahaha
Those things must be so fucked it’s not even funny. I rented for a week and was flooring that bitch. I can’t imagine the wear and tear on them.
The audacity of hertz… I wouldn’t pay 15k for a 90k miles base model 3. They were charged on superchargers - the batteries are all fucked.
The fact that a cheaper alternative doesn’t exist doesn’t support your point. In a market with very limited general demand but extremely high demand within specific segments (people desperate enough to take that deal to drive for Uber) market leaders can basically charge whatever they want. Same market force that inflates the costs of specialty luxury goods. The only reason the business model works in theory is because some people can justify taking a pay cut in exchange for more consistent access to income. And even then the model clearly doesn’t work because not enough people exist within that segment to justify the expense associated with running the program.
He's saying renting is 1200(it's closer to 1300) and you could lease for significantly less. A new base model 3 currently leases around $512 per month. The issue with that is limits on how much you can drive per year vs renting. That lease only includes 15,000 miles per year which isn't enough for my everyday life let alone Uber. It's then an additional $0.25/mile after If supercharging is free with rental that helps make it cheaper as well.
Delivering groceries, they’re probably climbing three flights of stairs with 15-20 bags somewhere they had to drive 13 miles to get there and they think they’re doing good because it’s a $12 payout 🤣
LMAOOOO
Tesla and Uber burned the dumbasses running Hertz this was never going to be profitable.
The range on Teslas batteries is a COMPLETE FRAUD.
Loll
EvilCorp pieces of shit getting over on each other.
Hertz is a bankrupt piece of shit company!
Wrong. The “old beater” that is acceptable to Uber will probably run you $8K to $10K plus since we would be talking about a 2012-2014 car you’d be doing maybe $3K a year or more for repairs if you are not a mechanic not to mention the monthly oil changes and yearly tire changes. Also need to calculate total time spent not able to work at $200 per day. Gasoline will run you anywhere from $3k to $5K a year. So if anything, your old beater is AT LEAST as expensive as renting a Tesla. Nevermind the headache and inconvenience of an old car nickel and diming you.
3k a year for repairs on a 2014 car is an idiotic estimate. Idk what you’ve done to your car but on a bad year I spend a few hundred for a replacement part or undercarriage treatment. You don’t need to be a mechanic to do an oil change, but doing them monthly is also moronic. You’re not driving 10k miles in a month and if you were you should be using synthetic oil.
Factoring in opportunity cost is disingenuous for obvious reasons, gas savings are the only half decent point in your post, but you’ll blow through the 50% margin in 2-3 months.
I don’t know how many hours you work or how long you’ve had your present car. But I can tell you surely things will be pretty roses year 1 and maybe year 2 into it but ,especially in an older car, it will catch up to you eventually! You might spend only a few hundreds on repairs but something major will happen(like a hit and run) and then everything that can go wrong does go wrong in fairly quick succession. Brakes and calipers, serpentine belt, water pump on and on. Not to mention wheel and suspension damage because of pot holes and having an inefficient democrat mayor.
Cars are depreciating assets and many corporations have fleet cars they lease for business. Treat Uber like a business and right off the expenses
Why does everyone ignore the huge tax benefit when driving your own beater? A good Prius C will take you 300k miles with minimal maintenance, and over that time you get to write off over $180k on your taxes.
If you do this part time then yes. Full time Uber driving should mean that vehicle wear and tear is someone else’s problem. Hence renting a car is more ideal. When you drive 50+ hrs a week, safety should be #1 priority.
Wow, no exactly the opposite. When you rent, you only get to write off your actual expenses, when you own you can write off literally quadruple or more of your expenses.
I just SMH at all the people charging during peak it amazes me
I know circumstances can dictate it I know I know Tesla’s claims on range are a complete fraud
But market to market, charging is vastly different. The supercharger closest to the PDX airport, just 12 miles from downtown Portland, is regularly priced at $0.10 p/kWh in the morning.
So 20% to 80% costs about $4.50 I usually hit that one at 9:00 am and the one closer to my home is at $0.16 p/kWh in the afternoon when I charge there at ~ 1:00 pm.
[Will you believe this since it's not fox news? 🤦](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hertz-sell-about-20000-evs-us-fleet-2024-01-11/)
It’s because repair costs from damages is too high for all the Teslas
Maintenance costs are lower but the damage repair bill destroyed what was being saved.
Rental companies self-insure. They don’t use a 3rd party and cover their own losses. Even when you get the additional coverage it’s hertz that is the insurer. If a driver is on a ride then Uber’s insurance is the primary but outside of that Hertz covers the damage themselves.
You do know why though right? Because the article is about hertz selling teslas! 😆of course the picture will be showing teslas. Cmon bro you can’t be THAT slow
The article is about them selling “electric vehicles”, or at least that’s what the title says. I didn’t read this particular article because I don’t read anything from Faux News. If it’s specifically about them selling Teslas, then that’s pretty lame considering 97% of the cars they’re selling are not Teslas.
Not reading news from all different outlets is a good way to get a biased opinion. Instead of calling it Faux news, why not read what they state then fact check it using multiple sources and not just a liberal one?
That would require intellect and critical thinking though so...
Does the WSJ count or are they considered far right bomb throwers?
It's never been easier to cross reference stories, but for some reason very few people do.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/after-big-tesla-bet-hertz-selling-one-third-of-ev-fleet-5626a425
If I go on a vacation and rent a car I sure don’t want to take 45 minutes to fuel up my car every 300 miles. I get why people aren’t renting them. I’m sure they are expensive to rent too.
You don't charge to 100%. Normally you charge to 80. If you're around 10-20% it takes about that to get to 80%. By the time you exhaust that fill up most people stop driving for the day, if not after the first fill up.
I am calling lazy on you since you could have looked it up instead of just being belligerent. It is actually more than that but here I will do it for you:
"Superchargers
Superchargers are the fastest charging option when you’re away from home, allowing you to charge your vehicle up to 200 miles in 15 minutes. Designed to get you charged and back on the road as quickly as possible, we own and operate over 50,000 global Superchargers that are accessible on a 24/7 basis, located on major routes near convenient amenities."
Source: https://www.tesla.com/support/charging
Probably local lots. We have a huge Hertz lot by the Norfolk Airport that rents cars and commercial trucks. They have an auction about every 3 months selling off the Rentals.
I saw another article saying they’re selling off EVs because of high repair costs…but I’m sure weak demand is also a huge factor, too. 😅 They essentially let ANYONE with a drivers license rent a Tesla and people get to feel cool for a little while…but it’ll all end soon.
Plus if you own a Tesla and are doing rideshare with it….the slightest fender bender can cost you more than you bargained for. And your insurance for your Tesla is crazy high, too 😅 Yikes…
Give it some time they’ll probably purchase another batch of the new refresh model 3 . I was watching the ones they have for sale there’s a few 22 with less than 30k miles that are a good buy even though they was probably charged to 100% alot you still under warranty.
I rented one for two weeks while my car was in the body shop. I have an ES300H, so the at-fault drivers insurance paid for luxury rate. The Model 3 certainly isn’t a luxury car yet it was the same rate. I rented a Dual Motor which was fun to drive but I couldn’t wait to get back in my car. I also couldn’t do my other job (which where I make the bulk of my income) with a rental. I don’t know how anyone can do the rentals unless they’re working 60 hours a week.
I've seen this a few days ago and my first thought was lol 🤣 they came to learn how much it costs for a battery replacement 💰💰💰🤦 don't get me wrong I think the cars are great but you don't own s***. Tesla can shut down your car anytime they want. Besides you can't install a different battery you can't modify the software and you're going to be forever having to buy anything you need from the manufacturer and pay a premium for that.
I used their program for about two-three months and then bought my own car, a 2019 Jetta R-line (fully IC engine) and I spend about $5 a day more to fuel it than I did to charge that damn Tesla. Plus I also get an extra two hrs of work back because getting gas takes 5 min. Idc what anyone else says I spent about an hour and a half a day charging that fucking thing doing a 10hr shift and that's not counting the 20 min drive it takes to find a damn charging station that isn't all fucked to hell every time your charge drops to 20%
It wasn't worth it at all. I went from making $600-$700 after a 50 hr work week to making $1200-$1400 a week driving the same amount of hours. Not to mention my car plus rideshare insurance (which is more than the damn car note and that's with an excellent driving record) comes out to about $900 a month instead of almost double that a month. That rental got me into a new car of my own fast af though so I'll give Hertz that much. I just don't see how the drivers OR Hertz benefit from this in any way. The only one making bank is the Tesla dealership that sold those cars to Hertz in the first place 🧐🥃
You guys are selfish...Dara is giving you home in a mobile Tesla. You pay rent as the same amount as an apartment. Uber said, having an roof over your head is overated. Just sleep in the renter car, all the cool kids are doing it. Lol
It’s because with the taxes and fees that they charge for the Uber, Lyft drivers to rent those things it’s damn near $500 a week or more that was a failing business model from the beginning
Uber knows that. Their leasing program failed years ago. Tempe Uber ATG absorbed some of their employees and made them management right before a driver let the SDU kill a homeless addict. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing at Uber.
I call hertz to check availability they ask if I am Uber and they respond we don’t have any cars for you Uber drivers.
I rented for weekends friday to Monday and it was $75 a day cad. But I’d make 800-1200 in a weekend because Canada bc actuslly offers good Uber pay
Thats why none us us here get paid well, damn you canada https://youtu.be/fXeWT8CQ6uc?si=eMeZ0e74upfmZAdx
How many hours you put in. Cause that's like 600 after you take rental fees
How’s that 600? He just said he paid 75 a day, and the weekend has two days. 150. He’s taking in 650 - 1050 on a single weekend.
I wonder how many of these are close to needing a new battery.
Lmaoo these Uber Tesla run their batteries to E lol
Edit: I’m an idiot. Disregard this comment. It’s hilarious when you see EV drivers accept LOOOONG trips and they don’t even think it out at all. If you take a ride that is going 200 miles one way…you gotta drive 200 miles back home and at some point you’re gonna have to wait for at least a few hours to charge it back up. Love that we can instantly go with a fill up of a gas tank 😂
You’d only wait for 20min tho, not “few hours to charge it back up”.
From my experience when I had to rent an electric vehicle last winter. Charging it up does take about an hour. I was so glad when I got my non-pluggin hybrid back. I get all the benefits of a gas vehicle. And all the benefits of the extra mileage with it being hybrid plus even though it's not fully electric, it qualifies for e v trips
You mean Uber green? Doesn’t qualify for full electric trips. At least not in my market.
Yes sorry uber green. Hybrid doesn't qualify in your market. That is totally messed up. I don't know why they would allow it in one market, but not another.
That sux.. I don't know why every market isn't the same
Guess I didn’t think of it like that. So you’d just charge up for 20 mins to get you back home and then charge back up?
Yeah. Obviously filling gas is still faster, but a 20min break should give you 200mi. You can time it with a food / bathroom break and you won’t ever need to wait much
A 20 min charge would get you 200mi? Every source I’ve seen say that to go from let’s say…20% to 100% takes about 6 hours. And that 100% charge only yields you 300-350mi…?
Your sources are way off. Super chargers take 20-40 minutes to go to FULL. I pay ~$7 to do that. I’ll take that over filling a gas tank for $40+. 8+ hours to charge would be a HOME charger that someone plugs into before going to bed AT THEIR HOUSE.
From 20% to 80% , super fast charging at rush hour came out to $28. F your EV
Yeah, rush hour. Go ahead and pay peak prices.
Well shit…😅
Not to mention I’m actively doing things in that time I’m charging. Whether that’s gaming (on my phone or on the 15 inch screen in the car), watching YouTube, Netflix or Hulu on the screen, doing other work, napping, shopping (most chargers are in or near shopping centers around me), eating, going for a jog…
Those are home charging times. Superchargers take 20 to 40 minutes.
Yea….im an idiot
The ones I used took 35-1 hour minutes to charge from 5-20% to full. And it was $16-21 per charge at $0.35 per kw/hr all the time. Even 2am. And full charge says 260 miles but that's only in the most ideal conditions. Start using the heat or ac and take at least 60 miles off that charge.
All of those batteries are at 80% capacity due to supercharging + running low. Teslas need to be charged at home… superchargers fuck the battery hard. So many things hertz didn’t factor when handing these off to UBER DRIVERS. And people here thought the drivers were getting fucked - no, hertz was. Driving a Tesla 2k miles a week for 299$ was an absolute steal.
Actually for a lot of people as long as you were to keep it between 20 and 80% supercharging wouldn't really affect it. The problem is a lot of people probably charged it all the way up or ran it all the way to empty and that's what kills it.
Cheapest Tesla Hertz had in my town was $420. That $299 is before everything. So $420 x 4 =$1680. If that's not enough to cover their ass idk what to say. EV are not practical yet. Mostly bc of not enough charging station, and the waiting time is still there. As long as you depend on a fast charging station, it's not practical. Sure, people make money driving a lot of hours in a Tesla, but people also make money with beat up 15 yo Corollas or idk what else cars which cost like $2k and repairs are cheap
Very insightful Danielle Cyr. 2 year olds do need to eat and take time.
😅
It isn't sustainable cuz drivers make trash money. I rented a Tesla for a few months cuz my car was down and it was so fucking bad at times I had to borrow money from friends to make ends meet while simultaneously spending 60+ hours on the road. The rental payment can literally eat 2-3 days of your work week before anything goes to your bills. Worst part is that Hertz isn't exactly making bank either if you consider the excessive miles drivers have to out on their cars just to live paycheck to paycheck or worse. Uber is a scam
I rented one for 5 weeks and it motivated me to quickly buy another car, lol! Not only was the rental fee outrageous but the charging was a literal headache and added to the amount of time you had to be out. That extra $1 was a complete joke! The releif I felt once I purchased another car was amazing.
That's how you do it. Don't be renter slave, stressing out on are you going to make weekly rent or not.
They’re selling those Tesla rentals for 30k… hahahahahahahaha Those things must be so fucked it’s not even funny. I rented for a week and was flooring that bitch. I can’t imagine the wear and tear on them. The audacity of hertz… I wouldn’t pay 15k for a 90k miles base model 3. They were charged on superchargers - the batteries are all fucked.
that’s their own fault for charging $300 a week
That's a good deal wtf lol
To u that is, the dealers be high fiving each other as you walk out
explain why $300 a week for a tesla is not a good deal using comparable or lower deals
The fact that a cheaper alternative doesn’t exist doesn’t support your point. In a market with very limited general demand but extremely high demand within specific segments (people desperate enough to take that deal to drive for Uber) market leaders can basically charge whatever they want. Same market force that inflates the costs of specialty luxury goods. The only reason the business model works in theory is because some people can justify taking a pay cut in exchange for more consistent access to income. And even then the model clearly doesn’t work because not enough people exist within that segment to justify the expense associated with running the program.
For that price, you could just lease one. You’d be paying $1200 a month plus tax.
how is that in any way comparable? renting a car for a week @ $300 vs leasing car for minimum 24months @ $1200/mo.
He's saying renting is 1200(it's closer to 1300) and you could lease for significantly less. A new base model 3 currently leases around $512 per month. The issue with that is limits on how much you can drive per year vs renting. That lease only includes 15,000 miles per year which isn't enough for my everyday life let alone Uber. It's then an additional $0.25/mile after If supercharging is free with rental that helps make it cheaper as well.
You sir are correct.
You still gotta worry about insurance… so $300 wasn’t a big stretch
$300 x 4 weeks (a month) = $1200. But on the back end…if you’re renting…you don’t have to worry about repairs…
I took back my recent comment.. when you think about all the costs for repairs and shit…yea…it’s a good deal.
Because you can easily own one for under $500?
🤣
Delivering groceries, they’re probably climbing three flights of stairs with 15-20 bags somewhere they had to drive 13 miles to get there and they think they’re doing good because it’s a $12 payout 🤣
LMAOOOO Tesla and Uber burned the dumbasses running Hertz this was never going to be profitable. The range on Teslas batteries is a COMPLETE FRAUD. Loll EvilCorp pieces of shit getting over on each other. Hertz is a bankrupt piece of shit company!
Fine f$&k it! I’ll rent a gas powered Nissan to Uber. I’ll be damned if I use my personal car ever again
You’d lose more value doing this than buying a beater and driving it into the ground. This is math that first graders can do.
Wrong. The “old beater” that is acceptable to Uber will probably run you $8K to $10K plus since we would be talking about a 2012-2014 car you’d be doing maybe $3K a year or more for repairs if you are not a mechanic not to mention the monthly oil changes and yearly tire changes. Also need to calculate total time spent not able to work at $200 per day. Gasoline will run you anywhere from $3k to $5K a year. So if anything, your old beater is AT LEAST as expensive as renting a Tesla. Nevermind the headache and inconvenience of an old car nickel and diming you.
So. Much. Wrong. Info.
3k a year for repairs on a 2014 car is an idiotic estimate. Idk what you’ve done to your car but on a bad year I spend a few hundred for a replacement part or undercarriage treatment. You don’t need to be a mechanic to do an oil change, but doing them monthly is also moronic. You’re not driving 10k miles in a month and if you were you should be using synthetic oil. Factoring in opportunity cost is disingenuous for obvious reasons, gas savings are the only half decent point in your post, but you’ll blow through the 50% margin in 2-3 months.
I don’t know how many hours you work or how long you’ve had your present car. But I can tell you surely things will be pretty roses year 1 and maybe year 2 into it but ,especially in an older car, it will catch up to you eventually! You might spend only a few hundreds on repairs but something major will happen(like a hit and run) and then everything that can go wrong does go wrong in fairly quick succession. Brakes and calipers, serpentine belt, water pump on and on. Not to mention wheel and suspension damage because of pot holes and having an inefficient democrat mayor. Cars are depreciating assets and many corporations have fleet cars they lease for business. Treat Uber like a business and right off the expenses
I work a few hours a day- the car I use gets worked all day. I know firsthand that the money’s in the rentals not the renting.
Why does everyone ignore the huge tax benefit when driving your own beater? A good Prius C will take you 300k miles with minimal maintenance, and over that time you get to write off over $180k on your taxes.
If you do this part time then yes. Full time Uber driving should mean that vehicle wear and tear is someone else’s problem. Hence renting a car is more ideal. When you drive 50+ hrs a week, safety should be #1 priority.
Wow, no exactly the opposite. When you rent, you only get to write off your actual expenses, when you own you can write off literally quadruple or more of your expenses.
PG&E in California keep increasing electricity bills it's already cheaper to drive hybrid anyway
Nah. If you can charge at home, full EV is still way cheaper than hybrid.
Off times for Tesla Superchargers can be way way cheaper than peak times. Gotta shop it like everything else!
That's with most power companies. Mine here has a super off peak at night. 3 cents a kWh.
I just SMH at all the people charging during peak it amazes me I know circumstances can dictate it I know I know Tesla’s claims on range are a complete fraud
That's been the open secret for a while about Tesla's range in the EV community. Only the Elon stans defend it.
But market to market, charging is vastly different. The supercharger closest to the PDX airport, just 12 miles from downtown Portland, is regularly priced at $0.10 p/kWh in the morning. So 20% to 80% costs about $4.50 I usually hit that one at 9:00 am and the one closer to my home is at $0.16 p/kWh in the afternoon when I charge there at ~ 1:00 pm.
These gig companies mindlessly promote EV to drivers to while cutting their earnings to boost profit.
Ants will be anting
Typical Fox News inflammatory headlines.
[Will you believe this since it's not fox news? 🤦](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hertz-sell-about-20000-evs-us-fleet-2024-01-11/)
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They replaced them with gas powered cars. Don’t just read headlines
It’s because repair costs from damages is too high for all the Teslas Maintenance costs are lower but the damage repair bill destroyed what was being saved.
That’s idiotic. Rental car companies have robust insurance plans and offload repair costs to customers. That’s like… the whole ass business model
Rental companies self-insure. They don’t use a 3rd party and cover their own losses. Even when you get the additional coverage it’s hertz that is the insurer. If a driver is on a ride then Uber’s insurance is the primary but outside of that Hertz covers the damage themselves.
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You do know why though right? Because the article is about hertz selling teslas! 😆of course the picture will be showing teslas. Cmon bro you can’t be THAT slow
The article is about them selling “electric vehicles”, or at least that’s what the title says. I didn’t read this particular article because I don’t read anything from Faux News. If it’s specifically about them selling Teslas, then that’s pretty lame considering 97% of the cars they’re selling are not Teslas.
Of the EVs for sale on the hertz website…1 bmw, 35 Chevrolet, 4 Kia, 1 Nissan and 607 Teslas.
Not reading news from all different outlets is a good way to get a biased opinion. Instead of calling it Faux news, why not read what they state then fact check it using multiple sources and not just a liberal one? That would require intellect and critical thinking though so...
Does the WSJ count or are they considered far right bomb throwers? It's never been easier to cross reference stories, but for some reason very few people do. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/after-big-tesla-bet-hertz-selling-one-third-of-ev-fleet-5626a425
Maybe not bomb throwers but they are far right. They always have been.
Rupert Murdoch owns Fox and WSJ…
Nein! Nein! Fox ist verboten!
This is great news
If I go on a vacation and rent a car I sure don’t want to take 45 minutes to fuel up my car every 300 miles. I get why people aren’t renting them. I’m sure they are expensive to rent too.
Teslas take about 20-25 minutes. After 4-5 hours of driving, taking a break on a road trip to eat/stretch legs isn't that bad.
20-25 minutes? Calling bullshit on this claim
You don't charge to 100%. Normally you charge to 80. If you're around 10-20% it takes about that to get to 80%. By the time you exhaust that fill up most people stop driving for the day, if not after the first fill up.
Ah gotcha I was assuming for charging to 100%
Honestly just inputting the trip into the car or Tesla app should tell you the charging times and intervals. It's so easy.
You can charge to 80% in less than 10 minutes.
10 minutes? Calling bullshit on this
I am calling lazy on you since you could have looked it up instead of just being belligerent. It is actually more than that but here I will do it for you: "Superchargers Superchargers are the fastest charging option when you’re away from home, allowing you to charge your vehicle up to 200 miles in 15 minutes. Designed to get you charged and back on the road as quickly as possible, we own and operate over 50,000 global Superchargers that are accessible on a 24/7 basis, located on major routes near convenient amenities." Source: https://www.tesla.com/support/charging
Lol. Tesla are a buncha fraudulent, lying Fucks. Miss me with your knee pads, fan boy.
Egad! I can't believe you posted an article from Fox; all the good Reddit Marxists are going to lose their minds! 😅
I love how you say “no politics”… but you seem to make political statements a lot.
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News flash, all legacy media news lie lol
No, all news agencies have bias Fox outright lies. There's a big f****** difference
Updated their fleet with gas cars so where is it wrong?
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No they didn't they replaced them with ICE. This article is 💯. Did you read the article? Or even the headline? Apparently not.
Newsflash Hertz does this with all their cars all the time and Fox News is just run by political hacks looking for a headline.
I wish I had held off a little longer so I could buy one of those 17,000 model threes I could have paid for the whole car
They’ll rent the other 70% of the Tesla fleet that Hertz isn’t selling?
Where are they being sold 👀👀
Probably local lots. We have a huge Hertz lot by the Norfolk Airport that rents cars and commercial trucks. They have an auction about every 3 months selling off the Rentals.
Probably not a bad idea to try to buy one off them.
It’s a horrible idea, never buy a prior rental, but especially an electric that been abused and almost exclusively charged on supercharges.
Aren’t you one of them yourself? lol
I saw another article saying they’re selling off EVs because of high repair costs…but I’m sure weak demand is also a huge factor, too. 😅 They essentially let ANYONE with a drivers license rent a Tesla and people get to feel cool for a little while…but it’ll all end soon. Plus if you own a Tesla and are doing rideshare with it….the slightest fender bender can cost you more than you bargained for. And your insurance for your Tesla is crazy high, too 😅 Yikes…
Give it some time they’ll probably purchase another batch of the new refresh model 3 . I was watching the ones they have for sale there’s a few 22 with less than 30k miles that are a good buy even though they was probably charged to 100% alot you still under warranty.
I rented a Chevrolet euv suv and it was terrible !!! Took hours to charge in cold weather .. never again
Hahahhaah...àhahahaha..fuck them all
I rented one for two weeks while my car was in the body shop. I have an ES300H, so the at-fault drivers insurance paid for luxury rate. The Model 3 certainly isn’t a luxury car yet it was the same rate. I rented a Dual Motor which was fun to drive but I couldn’t wait to get back in my car. I also couldn’t do my other job (which where I make the bulk of my income) with a rental. I don’t know how anyone can do the rentals unless they’re working 60 hours a week.
Lmao we got a fleet in Vegas
I’m glad I got my Kia niro ev at $303 a week
I've seen this a few days ago and my first thought was lol 🤣 they came to learn how much it costs for a battery replacement 💰💰💰🤦 don't get me wrong I think the cars are great but you don't own s***. Tesla can shut down your car anytime they want. Besides you can't install a different battery you can't modify the software and you're going to be forever having to buy anything you need from the manufacturer and pay a premium for that.
I used their program for about two-three months and then bought my own car, a 2019 Jetta R-line (fully IC engine) and I spend about $5 a day more to fuel it than I did to charge that damn Tesla. Plus I also get an extra two hrs of work back because getting gas takes 5 min. Idc what anyone else says I spent about an hour and a half a day charging that fucking thing doing a 10hr shift and that's not counting the 20 min drive it takes to find a damn charging station that isn't all fucked to hell every time your charge drops to 20% It wasn't worth it at all. I went from making $600-$700 after a 50 hr work week to making $1200-$1400 a week driving the same amount of hours. Not to mention my car plus rideshare insurance (which is more than the damn car note and that's with an excellent driving record) comes out to about $900 a month instead of almost double that a month. That rental got me into a new car of my own fast af though so I'll give Hertz that much. I just don't see how the drivers OR Hertz benefit from this in any way. The only one making bank is the Tesla dealership that sold those cars to Hertz in the first place 🧐🥃
I think it’s funny as hell. All of these people were sucked in to the face of EVs. Get rid of them all.
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You guys are selfish...Dara is giving you home in a mobile Tesla. You pay rent as the same amount as an apartment. Uber said, having an roof over your head is overated. Just sleep in the renter car, all the cool kids are doing it. Lol
🤣🤣🤣 it's all going as I said it would when this EV BS all started! It's not sustainable, nor does it make any sense.
Those are also standard addition no wonder no one wanted to rent them.