were going to change that, but first we need to hang a bunch of politicians, create new political parties. and get the bank of Canada back to the people.... going to be a lot of work in the next 10 years and we will be another 10 years older....

No dumb fuck. EVs are retarded like you. Nobody wants them, they catch on fire.

@Communistbitch On the contrary. People I know love their Evs. They always had. In the documentary, "Who Killed The Electric Car", about when California required a percentage of cars sold to be electric, when the leases ran out and people had to turn their cars back in, they wanted to keep them, or purchase them.

I admit an EV would not be appropriate for a long road trip, which is why Hertz had a problem with too many EVs in their fleet, but they are have a lower long term cost, and have less environmental impact.

As for catching on fire, the problems with overheated batteries have mostly been resolved. On the other hand I have was one in a gas powered car when it caught fire, so I don't really see gas cars as NOT catching fire. Quite honestly a gasoline fire is a lot scarier to me than a battery fire.

I think you are just afraid of change and having to learn about new things.

@snytiger6 no I'm just not retarded. I can buy a toyota corolla for 3900 and it'll last me for years. And retard, electricity is produced by burning gasoline at a power plant.

@Communistbitch Funny. I remember when I was a kid taking a tour of Hoover Dam, which used water power to produce electricity. In fact the first large scale power plant diverted a part of the Niagara River from Niagara Falls to use water power to produce electricity. Hardly any power plants today use combustion engines to produce electricity, and those that do usually only have combustion generators, which use diesel, not gasoline, only as a back up system. It is true that just under half of the electricity in the U.S. is generated by coal powered power plants, but they aren't burning gasoline either.

I am really trying hard NOT to agree with your first sentence that you are a retard, but you make it so difficult...

@snytiger6 did you look in the mirror?

@snytiger6

you got a lot of this right. good on you for your points.

as to evs not going far enough on a charge for rental clients, im not sure this is true. the teslas they're selling when new go for well more than 200 miles in a charge and charge up pretty quickly. however there is possibly something to the idea that new drivers can have difficulty figuring out how to use the public charging infrastructure.

i wish i understood more fully why both hertz and sixt have partially or fully pushed back on their tesla fleets. i believe both have mentioned high repair costs and poor residual values as contributing factors

importantly, some of sixt's move was just against tesla. they have not rejected evs altogether and seem to be afaik still working with byd. i don't know if that's all bev or also phev

Absolutely wrong. Most rental cars are rented at airports and stay within 50 miles of the airport.

If a rental company offered an electric vehicle I turn it down. If all they have are electric vehicles, I find a different rental car company.

@Trolling When I traveled, the city where the airport is located is usually not my final destination, as there is some driving involved.

I've known people who rather than take their own cars for road trips, they will rent a car.

In either case, electric cars would not be the best option with current driving ranges.

However, if just going around town locally, electric cars are great for getting around. For people who live on islands, electric cars are ideal.