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$277 is egregious but the assertion in the article that the cost to refuel the Tesla should be $0 is also absurd. Electricity is not free. Obviously the fair c

• prmoustache 2y ago
  If you are asking renter to charge upon return you are killing most of the incentives to use a rental EV in the first place. The price should be simply accounted for in the rental price.
  • xboxnolifes 2y ago
    The same thing could be said about ICE rentals, yet that also isn't accounted for in the cost. It's not unique to EV.
    • prmoustache 2y ago
      It takes 2 minutes to fill a tank and it doesn't cost more to the user than the rental company. In the EV case it takes a significant amount of time to charge the vehicle (nobody wants to do that before taking a flight) and it is more expensive for the user in a public charging station than it would for a rental company that invested for its own chargers within their parking spots. Also the time used to charge the EV can be mutualized with the time it is eventually checked and cleaned. Very rarely is a car returned and rented within minutes. I guess in an ideal setup you would get a car with at least 60% of charge and when you return it the rental company expect the same. This leave you time to plan your trips and charge so you don't have to look for a crappy place to do a last charge with nothing else to do just before returning it.
• DamnInteresting 2y ago
  From the article: > This customer actually returned the car with a 96% charge, the same as they’d picked it up at.