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I have a lot of friends, particularly women and men with lower incomes that rent cars for any longer distance travel. I think because the true cost and risk fac
by Gibbon1 3y ago
I have a lot of friends, particularly women and men with lower incomes that rent cars for any longer distance travel. I think because the true cost and risk factor is much lower. If your beater breaks down 200 miles from home you're in a real pickle if you can't just throw money around to make the problem go away. And women in particular don't want to be stuck on the side of the road somewhere strange.
I bring it up because I see complaints from people with money that EV's don't fill their use cases 100%. No offense it's a privileged position. Where you spend an extra $10-20k for a car that does everything you might want just to ditch the inconvenience of renting something for that last 5% use case.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoI have also been curious about the renting strategy you mentioned. But then I realized that if everyone has EV’s and they all use this rental strategy, burst rental prices will be insane.
- ghaff 3y agoI don't know how common it is but I got rid of a (second) car a few years back that I wouldn't have trusted for a several hundred mile road trip into the mountains--and I could, if push came to shove, have paid for a long transport from the side of the road. But it could have been a real pain. As it was I just drove it locally but I wasn't doing that enough to justify the cost given lack of commute even before pandemic.