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> pre-planned The power requirements were not drawn up with the car rental agency in mind. Maybe you can get the airport to cooperate and ask the utility to ex
by smallnamespace 3y ago
> pre-planned
The power requirements were not drawn up with the car rental agency in mind. Maybe you can get the airport to cooperate and ask the utility to expand capacity - how many years of planning do you think that takes?
- wlesieutre 3y agoYes, definitely a project, especially with the shortages of transformers lately. But even if it delayed their (attempted) EV shift, it’s something Hertz needed to have done before buying a bunch of EVs. Handing out discharged EVs to customers who haven’t driven an EV before was a totally braindead move. They have the added challenge of people dropping off cars at a different place from where they started, so they can’t necessarily say “we’re going to start with EVs at our new facilities where we can design that capacity from the start.” They needed fast charging everywhere for this to go smoothly.
- monknomo 3y agoSounds like something a car rental agency that wants to have a bunch of electric rentals should probably think through before yeeting a fleet into existence....