Hertz plans for EVs to make up 25% of its 500,000 vehicles. MAGA soils diapers.

Joe Capitalist said:
Tesla Model 3 review:


I am 5K into my ownership of my Tesla Model 3 Standard. As a realtor, I spend a lot of time behind the wheel.

This car is a blast to drive. I love the combination of comfort, sportiness, and luxury. I wasn’t sure if I would like the simplicity interior but I love it. I personally like one screen operating everything. There is a learning curve but it is pretty quick.

My last car was an Audi A6 and I enjoy driving this car more than my Audi and I loved my Audi. Handling is very crisp and you feel in total control behind the wheel. The ride isn’t as soft as many luxury cars but the combination of speed, handling, and comfort are perfect in my opinion. Acceleration is instantaneous no matter what speed you're going. Not having a transmission makes for seamless acceleration.

The technology is fantastic. The controls are easy to use once you get acclimated. The sound system is exceptional even in the base trim. Movies sound like a movie theater. The cruise control is the best I have experienced and the ability to respond to voice commands is very impressive and you don’t have to “train” it to recognize your voice. The navigation system is also the best I have experienced. The range is more than adequate for my driving habits.

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You're such a lazy bastard. You've been told repeatedly to post the links but you steadfastly refuse to do so.

https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-3/2023/consumer-reviews/
 
Nutberg said:
EVs weigh a lot less than most ICEs on the road. The ICEs get shorter t brake usage and worse stopping distances.
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Are you insane or just stupid?

The Tesla Model Y has a stopping distance of 112 feet from 60 mph. This is despite having all-season tires, which are usually designed for wear resistance rather than road grip.
How The Honda Accord has a stopping distance of 109 feet from 60 mph

A Honda accord weighs 3,239 lbs

A Tesla Model Y weighs 4,416 pounds
 
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly common, with every major automaker racing to bring cars to market and most shifting away from building traditional gas-powered vehicles this decade. Clearly, EVs are the next big thing in cars, and they are coming to a driveway near you.

The appeal is clear, with reduced energy costs, lower emissions, convenient home charging, and the promise of reduced maintenance costs. More than a third of Americans would “definitely” or “seriously” consider buying or leasing an electric-only vehicle if they were to buy a vehicle today, according to Consumer Reports’ largest-ever nationally representative survey of 8,027 U.S. adults. Among their reasons: It costs less to charge an EV than to refuel a gas car, overall lifetime costs are lower and maintenance costs are lower.

EVs offer many advantages over traditional internal-combustion engine cars, including lower operating costs, tax incentives, and cleaner air, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
 
Consumer Reports (CR) said that the Model 3 required an average of 152 feet to brake to a stop from 60 mph. CR said that this was far worse than any contemporary car they've tested and about 7 feet longer than the stopping distance of a Ford F-150 full-sized pickup.


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It is interesting how the Mind Molder Narrative that EV's are great and people cant wait to get one has completely collapsed.
 
serendipity said:
You truly are an imbecile, EVs are invariably heavier due to the batteries ffs.
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In fact your picking and choosing to warp the point. Look about you. You do not see many ICE sedans. They are behemoths that are way oversized and heavy. I suppose when I gave that average weight of ICE's there were too many numbers for you to understand. But I am sure most posters understood that. Huge pickups and SUVs defeat your point totally.
 
I keep seeing people blaming this on Tesla lowering their prices thus making the cars they have already bought worth less....which I am going to guess is all about shitting on Musk.....who is becoming an enemy of the Revolution.....not the actual problem.
 
That HERTZ has done the operation of bringing EV's into the fleet incompetently is a sure thing....maybe that is the problem.
 
Nordberg said:
In fact your picking and choosing to warp the point. Look about you. You do not see many ICE sedans. They are behemoths that are way oversized and heavy. I suppose when I gave that average weight of ICE's there were too many numbers for you to understand. But I am sure most posters understood that. Huge pickups and SUVs defeat your point totally.
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Holy fuck, you could have just shut up but that's asking way too much. Do you think that Nikola and Tesla semis are light, fool? Or how about Cyber trucks made from stainless steel, imbecile?
 
When multiple EV advocates jam Hertz for doing a shit job with this then it is time to accept it as probable fact.
 
With regard to the original subject, it seems both Hertz and Enterprise are cutting back heavily on EV investments in their fleets because of lack of interest by customers in renting these vehicles.

Both Enterprise and Hertz, the two largest U.S. car-rental companies, confirmed to Car and Driver that they have been reducing their fleet of EVs because of a lack of demand
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15341264/hype-aside-americans-still-arent-renting-electric-cars/

When You Don’t Want an Electric Rental Car
https://blog.autoslash.com/when-you-dont-want-an-electric-rental-car/

Seems that getting stuck with an EV is pissing off many rental customers and they are responding with their feet (going to other companies) as well as pushing back on the rental companies demanding an ICE vehicle instead...

Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs
https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...ic-vehicle-rental-cars-hertz-chargers/674429/

When You Rent a Car, You Don’t Want an EV
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-rental-car-gas-tank-electric-vehicle-ev-11664567206
 
PANASONIC ANNOUNCES GAME-CHANGING PLAN TO GIVE OLD EV BATTERIES NEW PURPOSE: ‘IT WOULD BE A BIG STEP TOWARD WINNING IN THE EV BATTERY MARKET’

https://apple.news/AJqp3AFXuSdmBHKb1ThUdQg

“Battery manufacturers and recycling companies around the world are racing to develop technology …”
by Stephen Proctor*/*October 29, 2023

Panasonic recently announced plans to make new electric vehicle batteries using recycled materials from used batteries. Panasonic Energy, a Panasonic Group company, will be working with U.S.-based startup Redwood Materials to extract these materials and produce cathodes (one of the electrodes) at Panasonic’s plant in De Soto, Kansas, beginning in 2025. Panasonic expects this to be the largest cathode manufacturing operation in North America.
This process will help to create what Redwood calls a “circular supply chain.” The way things work now, materials travel tens of thousands of miles before becoming the finished product because of the locations where raw materials are mined and then the different places where cathodes and battery cells are produced.*
Panasonic’s plan will create a domestic supply chain, therefore reducing the pollution created while mining and transporting the raw materials. It will also ease the U.S. dependence on countries like China for these materials.*
Panasonic Energy Chief Technology Officer Shoichiro Watanabe told Nikkei Asia, “We can secure resources that are in danger of depletion and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the resource extraction stage to production.”
Panasonic’s partnership with Redwood began in 2019 when the company was tasked with recycling scrap materials from Panasonic’s battery facility in Sparks, Nevada. In November 2022, the companies announced that Redwood would be responsible for extracting nickel, cobalt, and lithium from used batteries, with nickel being the main focus as it accounts for roughly 90% of the cathode material used in Panasonic’s EV batteries.
“Used batteries contain a higher concentration of resources compared to ore and require less energy to smelt,” Watanabe said. “Depending on resource prices, recycled batteries can be cheaper.”
With this plan, Panasonic joins a growing movement among EV battery manufacturers to recycle used battery materials, reports Nikkei Asia.*
 
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