My most recent car rental this month from thrifty at lax: They definitely have several gas pumps on the premises. And car chargers. You are not getting a car w

My most recent car rental this month from thrifty at lax: They definitely have several gas pumps on the premises. And car chargers. You are not getting a car without a full tank. At the desk you are told to bring the car back filled to the same level or they will indeed charge you $10 a gallon. Alternatively, you can pay some extra fee upfront and not have to worry about bringing it back full. I didn't really pay attention to this offer but I suspect it could have been cheaper than the $50 of gas I had to put in at the end. They don't assign you a car. You ordered a medium sedan? Those are in so and so section of the lot, head out there and jump into whatever car catches your eye. The keys are on the dash. If it's not full of gas, you hop out and get into the next car over. I will ding them a bit for two of their shuttle busses driving past me at the airport. In the end I just hopped on an Avis bus without talking to the driver and walked the last few hundred meters from Avis to Thrifty. I also strongly recommend not getting on a shuttle by terminal 1 at lax. You will sit in traffic in the airport for 30 minutes. Much faster to drag your bags across the road, across the middle of the airport and across the road again to the shuttle stop in terminal 7.