What kills me is so many of them don’t have a dipstick and the only way to fill is from underneath

Don’t do it! He’s got $150 under that hood!

Is there any hard data on your final point? I don’t see how shifting from reverse to drive while rolling backwards at 1 MPH is any worse than putting your foot down aggressively from a stop. In both instances, isn’t the torque converter doing the job of slipping the transmission until the vehicle speed catches up with…

Because the cars are only kept for a few years and they don’t really bother with maintenance, the majority of rental fleet expenses are from repairing damage. If the anecdotes are to be believed, a Tesla fender bender is terribly expensive and takes months to repair. Maybe part shortages kept EV fleet cars out of the…

Pause, take a breath, and have some patience next time you start the odyssey home from Target.

1st Gear: Tesla really shafted Hertz with their price cuts. It doesn’t help when Tesla’s service centers are few and far between and their wait times are not conducive to the kind of quick turnaround rental companies need.

I’ve found it sometimes makes sense to just return it with a low SOC. For example, last time I rented from Avis the charge fee was only nominally more than what I would have spent charging it at a supercharger. Better not to have to spend 30 minutes charging and let them deal with it. 

Avis requires a charge of 70% upon return.

“most rental car companies don’t make you recharge”

Hertz really did get shafted by Tesla lowering the prices.

The sad thing is, I think the majority of rental car customers would get by just fine with an EV. In fact, since most rental car companies don’t make you recharge before returning the car, dropping it off is easier than ICE cars because you don’t have to worry…

Nobody was buying our overpriced, niche van because of supply issues.

Duh.

[Amazon, interior. Jeff Bezos is pacing the floor, stopping to quiz each employee.]

It’s absolutely a scape goat. Sales down...blame supply chain and not decreased demand. Inefficiencies causing cost overruns...blame supply chain not poor planning or subpar workforce.

It’s a lot harder to exploit the space industry than it is to exploit mom & pop book shops and flea markets.

Ford “doesn’t know” how many Transit Trails it has sold? I “don’t know” if I believe them.

In my defense, Apple Maps told me it was a road!

We live in the dumbest timeline

I love how Pagani just keeps on getting weirder. Zonda looked like a bastard child of GroupC car, then Huayra added some luxury yacht like oppulance, and now with Utopia, it’s a proper Mashmallow man monster, just plain weird, reminds me of Mitsuoka Orochi, almost.