Tis better to own a Leaf or an S than to rent one, it seems. According to Enterprise Holdings Inc.,

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Tis better to own a Leaf or an S than to rent one, it seems. According to Enterprise executive royal inn edmonton Holdings Inc., known for driving around in cars wrapped in branded brown paper for some reason, customers who rent electric-only vehicles from their lot soon return their sustainable rides for a one with a sustainable range based on the number executive royal inn edmonton of (gasoline and diesel) fuel stops along the way.
In an interview with Bloomberg , Enterprise Head of Sustainability Lee Broughton note that while customers were "keen" to give electric power a go, range anxiety led many a renter to return the car for one where they know the infrastructure is there to meet. On average, a renter will spend almost two days with an electric-only car versus a week with a conventional road warrior. Currently, the St. Louis-based rental car business has 300 electric cars in their overall fleet, all Nissan Leafs. The figure is down 40 percent from the target of 500 of the cars set by Enterprise back in 2010.
Despite the overall lack of demand in this emerging rental market executive royal inn edmonton due to lack of infrastructure and larger-capacity batteries for extended range, competitor Hertz added the Tesla S to its Dream Cars lineup in September for their customer base in Los Angeles and San Francisco. executive royal inn edmonton The daily rate to feel like Elon Musk is $500; Enterprise offers the S in their Exotic Car Collection for $300 to $500 in the same locations, with three currently in the lineup available. The Leaf offered by Enterprise goes for $55 to $140 a day depending on location.
I d rent an EV if the hotel I m staying at had a charger hookup. Most of my business trips involve driving only a few miles between the airport, hotel, customer location and various local eatery / bars so an EV makes sense. But at $500 a day it doesn t.
You re traveling for work, you don t want to be, your flights were botched, a 300-lb. blue-shirted decerebrate spit truculent verbage at you as he cupped your nuts, you ve never much driven in this city and it s construction season. And you have diarrhea.
This could simply mean that week-long renters plan to travel widely where charging station locations are uncertain, while local and shorter-term renters can deal with the charging issue. executive royal inn edmonton Only if weekly executive royal inn edmonton renters are returning an EV 2 days into their rental to get an ICE would that indicate that renters are too troubled executive royal inn edmonton by charging to keep the EV.
Seriously, these cars rent as part of the prestige collection (along with SLs and Aston Martins, etc.) for +$500 a day. You don t think the typical renter is renting to try it and then trading it in for a 300 or an Avalon for $89 a day for the rest of his trip?
McKinsey performed a study of Japanese EV owners in Japan. Japan had some aggressive EV subsidies that encouraged a subset of EV buyers who were more motivated by the low cost than by the technology.
Not surprisingly, the research found that those buyers who were lured by the subsidies were less tolerant of the flaws (range and recharge time) than the diehards who were commmitted to EVs for their own sake.
I m sure that this same dichotomy is applicable to most other drivers in the developed world. The hardcore fans reinforce their devotion to the technology by communing with each other in their echo chambers, convincing themselves that the limitations are no big deal. But most buyers aren t interested, and efforts to expand the market too much with the use of subsidies will have the effect of exposing the cars to buyers who will have buyers remorse when the realities of day-to-day ownership set in.
When I rent a car it is either just for very basic transportation (the $29/day dodge Neon suffices), or becasue i want to go thousands of miles on someone else s dime. both not a good thing for expensvie EVs.
You rent a convertible for the theoretical fun to drive factor or because it makes for a more special or fun time on the vacation. Nissan Leaf s don t do anything a Focus can t do, and aren t any nicer, so why would I pay a lot more for a car that comes with range anxiety and doesn t add anything to the driving experience (or riding) experience, and who s only benefit is the fact that I don t have to put gas in the tank?
haha Ar-Pharazon. +1. A Leaf doesn t ride nicer, isn t more upscale, isn t quicker, isn t more spacious, and isn t more fun to drive (all the standard reasons people would pay more for a rental) than a Focus, so it s only trump card is the fact that it doesn t use any gas, which is only an advantage if it saves you $.
I worked in rental from 2003-10. While my time directly on the rental counter was brief (thankfully) I will say I saw enough misunderstandings .of how basic vehicle features work to say that yeah, mass ev rentals are probably a long way off. I remember when we got the Prius it was a big deal. Joe Renter thought, hey cool, a prius, heard a lot about this car. Until they couldn t figure out how to drive it (is it on?). Then back to the counter they came for a normal car. The average renter is either on vacation or business and does not want to be bothered with learning executive royal inn edmonton how something new works. executive royal inn edmonton I would, however, executive royal inn edmonton rent one for a weekend.
@ Tim_Turbo I ve seen the same thing (I ve worked part time at an airport FBO and we were able to rent cars directly to our customers). Hybrids have caused confusion, but so have cars with various forms of comfort access, and (amusingly) cars without fuel door switches inside. I have rented a Prius for the novelty factor and to see what sort of mileage I could get with it. I d only rent one again if I could get it for a discount rate. Just like with the Leaf, it doesn t pay for itself in gas savings vs a compact, so no reason for me to rent one.
I watched a new Zeitgeist movie which suggested a circular society living in socialism which didn t own cars, but rented them (ala Zip Car) and only used them when absolutely necessary. executive royal inn edmonton Electric cars getting energy from renewable sources.
Why would I chose an EV over a Yukon, which work is mainly the only circumstance I rent, (and vacation, but then comfort is key) I get more space, better visibility, and I don t embarrass myself asking for an extension cord.