Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs::undefined
Apparently it’s related to “expenses related to collision and damage” and they’ve had to put speed and torque limitations on the fleet cars.
Telsas and Polestars are not slow cars, and it sounds like renters are driving them aggressively. I wouldn’t be surprised if torque and speed are also the reason why Tesla is #1 with recent car accidents stats.
Telsas and Polestars are not slow cars, and it sounds like renters are driving them aggressively.
Driving a rental car - any rental car - more aggressively than your own car has been pretty typical behaviour since the beginning of rental cars.
Exactly. Only now they’re twice as fast and require you to play a video game to turn the air vents.
I appreciate that this article isn’t going for the “electric cars are bad see even hertz can’t make them work” angle, and instead has more of a “someone left a chair on the curb if you have any interest” vibe
It hertz just reading this.
It’s all Tesla and I do not want to be associated in any way with that whiny little bitchbaby Musk. Hard pass.
Ya think they would get some sort of a deal (federal or business) when it comes to repairing a fleet of EVs.
