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The in-car navigation to the nearest supercharger worked, but: - some markets don't have an abundance of fast superchargers. It can take > 1 hour to charge. -

The in-car navigation to the nearest supercharger worked, but: - some markets don't have an abundance of fast superchargers. It can take > 1 hour to charge. - vehicles would often get returned mostly discharged, which forces the next customer to deal with it. - I rented a few that appeared to have been driven really hard, leading the remaining charge calibration to become mis calibrated, which caused me to have to stop for some unscheduled charges. - the vehicles lose a few percent of charge per day even when not driven (worse in hot weather) - Hertz locations are typically not equipped with any kind of charging infrastructure -- if they were, EVs would be far more convenient to rent. I wish the program would continue, and I would still prefer to rent a Tesla over the other options, but I think the aforementioned things factored into the failure.

Rebelgecko 3y ago
>the vehicles lose a few percent of charge per day even when not driven (worse in hot weather) Is that a Tesla thing? Or does Hertz have some sort of battery draining telematics? I have a non-Tesla EV and even in warm weather (100°F+) that hasn't been the case for me. If the weather changes drastically the SOC might change ±2%, but when I've left my car sitting for weeks it seems to average out
- resters 3y ago
  It could have been the aforementioned mis-calibration as well, not sure. I consulted some help/documentation at the time and it said it was normal. With respect to telematics, I think the only change to the vehicle was that a few menu options were unavailable. I updated the software on one of the vehicles, renamed a few, added some to the app, etc. In my opinion, a Hertz office with sufficient charging capacity could be great with EVs. (I also don't understand why traditional gas stations aren't already featuring a few high capacity charging stalls)

Rebelgecko 3y ago

>the vehicles lose a few percent of charge per day even when not driven (worse in hot weather) Is that a Tesla thing? Or does Hertz have some sort of battery draining telematics? I have a non-Tesla EV and even in warm weather (100°F+) that hasn't been the case for me. If the weather changes drastically the SOC might change ±2%, but when I've left my car sitting for weeks it seems to average out

resters 3y ago
It could have been the aforementioned mis-calibration as well, not sure. I consulted some help/documentation at the time and it said it was normal. With respect to telematics, I think the only change to the vehicle was that a few menu options were unavailable. I updated the software on one of the vehicles, renamed a few, added some to the app, etc. In my opinion, a Hertz office with sufficient charging capacity could be great with EVs. (I also don't understand why traditional gas stations aren't already featuring a few high capacity charging stalls)