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Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount
- barrystaes 2y agoThis page is ridden of ads, popups, and sensational writing. They may be facts but its written as clickbait filler to scroll past even more ads. Clicking the back button redirects me to a never-seen-before and full-screen Ad page before returning to Hacker News. I am never visiting insideevs.com again. If this is real news, a real news website shall report it.
- dscottboggs 2y agoAmazing what a difference uBlock origin has, I didn't notice at all.
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoThey license the story everywhere. Only everywhere is also plagued by Spam https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/hertz-s-tesla-fire-sale-continues-as-depreciation-costs-mount/ar-AA1u1EqE https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/hertz-s-tesla-fire-sal... Just get firefox with ublock origin
- cnst 2y agoThis is why I started using a DNS ad blocker. It's not that I hate ads, it's simply that I use more than one tab, and my Apple Silicon doesn't have enough RAM and processing power to keep rendering the ever-changing ads in all the tabs. It is a little ironic that these EV sites have some of the most annoying ads, including all those video rolls on every page, wasting an immense amount of power.
- malshe 2y agoCan you please provide more details about the DNS ad blocker? I don't know anything about it but it sounds intriguing.
- fhfjfk 2y agosee pihole, et al.
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- jdeibele 2y agoPeople will mention PiHole and that's a neat solution if you want to maintain a server. If you don't, https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html lets you point your DNS servers at AdGuard and let them block ads for you. No maintenance required. One caveat: once in a while, like maybe once a year, my wife or I encounter a site that AdGuard blocks and we need to set our DNS back to "normal" for things to work. But you'll probably have the same issue with PiHole, which relies on lists of spammers or other undesirables. PS: no relationship with AdGuard other than happily using their service.
- malshe 2y agoThanks. I will check this out
- rchaud 2y agoWhile blogspam sites are a symptom of web publishing's race to the bottom, "actual news" sites are pretty much indistinguishable when it comes to ads and popups.
- kotaKat 2y agoI half-thought about one of these just to have something to rip around in. Until a colleague in a Model Y hit a turkey and the very minor front end damage turned into a $9000 insurance claim. I don't want to buy a $20k used Tesla and immediately run into a 4-5 figure repair as soon as one minor thing goes horribly wrong, even with insurance.
- bhhaskin 2y agoThat's pretty much any new car today. Modern cars are pretty safe, but at the expense of damage to the car itself.
- grugagag 2y agoFor a frontal collision with a larger object maybe this true but with a turkey? It seems the dammage is a bit excessive for that
- esperent 2y agoIt depends how fast the turkey was going when it hit you.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoNot to mention what it was travelling in. SUVs are absolute tanks these days.
- mcpeepants 2y agotoo many gas gobblers on the road these days
- indemnity 2y agoWe had a minor 10 km/h collision in my wife’s SUV (non-Tesla). To me it looked like it would just be a minor bumper respray and realignment of some panels. Unfortunately the parking sensors were damaged too, so it’s a few grand to repair.
- greatgib 2y agoWhen they announced that they will buy 100k despite being in a dire financial situation a few years ago, I knew that it would be an epic failure for them. Looks like to be confirmed. But 2 other things shock me in this story: First that the cars are still valued at 20k despite being a little bit old and used for rental when you know that like expectancy of Tesla is not that long without costly repairs. Second, even if I'm not an American tax payer, is that the gov will give back 4k if you buy one, supporting the effort of this company to recoup their loss despite them totally not deserving it.
- plagiarist 2y agoMassive handouts to corporations that neither need nor deserve them is one of the few things our government can be relied on for. At least this one is not direct. This one seems like an unfortunate consequence that it's hard to give out any subsidy without benefiting some large business.
- nunez 2y agoThe EV tax credit applies to all manufacturers, not just Tesla.
- rasz 2y agoHerts did Tesla play to rally its own stock.
- wiradikusuma 2y agoSome questions: 1. Can't Hertz's sue Tesla to get "cashback" or something? Mom and Pop can only stare helplessly, but surely a bigco can demand something? 2. Link from "We'll let you be the judge" gives a strong impression that ex-Hertz's _Teslas_ are problematic, but can "Tesla" be omitted and it's still the same? (Meaning, nothing to do with Tesla or EV, just "ex-Hertz's are bad").
- nunez 2y agoThis really blows for me, as EVs are all I rent when I travel. (We have two EVs at home.) I get it, though. Most travelers want gas cars; they are familiar and easier to refuel. That said, I can definitely confirm that it is way harder to rent a Tesla (or any EV) on Hertz than before. Avis still has a good inventory of them, though.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoWhen you rent a car to go to Glacier national park, an EV is going to work out better for you. We are still a bit behind on charging infrastructure out here in the west.
- nunez 2y agoYou're not wrong, but I'm talking about regular old business trips. That said, Rivian is closing that gap quickly with their Adventure Network charging platform.