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Well something is up because i simply do not see that counter argument anywhere in this thread. Crazy huh?

by harry8 1y ago

Dylan16807 1y ago
"Renting a U-Haul starts at $19.95 per day..." So in the scale between $10 and $10000, it would be like renting a big piece of road equipment, not buying one. To be clear the middle paragraph of my post was explaining why I think they said that, and the last paragraph was me adding my own commentary. I wasn't suggesting they were implying the part about gas savings, that was all me.
- mitthrowaway2 1y ago
  (Thank you Dylan16807, your interpretation is correct, and I apologize to harry8 because I didn't realize that my comment would read so cryptically when I wrote it).
  - harry8 1y ago
    Fair enough. Go on then, show us your estimate for the cost of renting a fully charged towable battery for 2-3 days. I'm struggling to see it being much cheaper than renting an ev for 2-3 days if such a thing were wished into existence.
    - Dylan16807 1y ago
      > I'm struggling to see it being much cheaper than renting an ev for 2-3 days if such a thing were wished into existence. Even if it was the same price, lots of people don't want to rent a car, and many of the reasons they have for that don't apply to renting a battery pack. But I'd be surprised if it wasn't a lot cheaper. If I think about a non-towed battery, it costs 1/5 as much as a car, needs 1/10 as much storage space on shelves, and can be kept in service for hundreds of thousands of miles. Towed units would be harder to store and have a bit more wear but should still be a lot smaller and cheaper than cars. A small trailer that could carry a battery is only a thousand bucks retail. You'd probably want some cooling, in the end maybe it's 1/4 the cost of a car and takes up 1/6 of a parking space? Still sounds like a cheap rental. And as for the price of "fully charged", they can have the same price per kWh as a supercharger and have massive profit margins. So that's an amount you'd have to pay anyway and not a downside to renting.

Well something is up because i simply do not see that counter argument anywhere in this thread. Crazy huh?

by harry8 1y ago

Well something is up because i simply do not see that counter argument anywhere in this thread. Crazy huh?

"Renting a U-Haul starts at $19.95 per day..." So in the scale between $10 and $10000, it would be like renting a big piece of road equipment, not buying one. To be clear the middle paragraph of my post was explaining why I think they said that, and the last paragraph was me adding my own commentary. I wasn't suggesting they were implying the part about gas savings, that was all me.

mitthrowaway2 1y ago
(Thank you Dylan16807, your interpretation is correct, and I apologize to harry8 because I didn't realize that my comment would read so cryptically when I wrote it).
- harry8 1y ago
  Fair enough. Go on then, show us your estimate for the cost of renting a fully charged towable battery for 2-3 days. I'm struggling to see it being much cheaper than renting an ev for 2-3 days if such a thing were wished into existence.
  - Dylan16807 1y ago
    > I'm struggling to see it being much cheaper than renting an ev for 2-3 days if such a thing were wished into existence. Even if it was the same price, lots of people don't want to rent a car, and many of the reasons they have for that don't apply to renting a battery pack. But I'd be surprised if it wasn't a lot cheaper. If I think about a non-towed battery, it costs 1/5 as much as a car, needs 1/10 as much storage space on shelves, and can be kept in service for hundreds of thousands of miles. Towed units would be harder to store and have a bit more wear but should still be a lot smaller and cheaper than cars. A small trailer that could carry a battery is only a thousand bucks retail. You'd probably want some cooling, in the end maybe it's 1/4 the cost of a car and takes up 1/6 of a parking space? Still sounds like a cheap rental. And as for the price of "fully charged", they can have the same price per kWh as a supercharger and have massive profit margins. So that's an amount you'd have to pay anyway and not a downside to renting.