I wonder how nervous the oil companies are with Musk as president. They have to know he wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize his position.
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I mean, the “road tax” isn’t exactly wrong. If everyone went electric like some people want then how are we going to pay for road maintenance? You could be taxed by the mile, but that’s going to be harder to track for people that might have older vehicles without just straight up slapping GPS trackers on every car,…
I was in Norway last year and they have plenty of EV models to choose from.
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Elon Musk probably thinks the London Underground is a political movement XD
Doesn’t Dubai already have an underground rail network — the Dubai Metro? (Would this be worth pointing out in the article?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro
Me? Post something on this blog as bait? I would never.
3rd Gear: I wouldn’t be surprised if VinFast’s numbers have been achieved the same way a lot of NY Times “bestseller” books do: writers buy their own books to juice the numbers.
There are essentially no after-market parts available for Teslas. Finding a replacement door or fender usually means taking one from a wrecked car. Any of the wiring or electronics have to come from Tesla, and their top priority is making new cars, not servicing existing ones.
Probably do better in the snow than that Sterrato Owner I saw in a video recently.
Ding, ding, ding! I’m going to go further and relay my experience with a notoriously bad transmission that I made last 275k. Honda Odysseys went bad around 75-95k. I did my changes every 15k. Fluid always looked and smelled fresh, as far as trans fluid goes!
When you consider that Toyota had to back off the instant-torque their hybrids initially provided, can you imagine an ICE driver stepping on the pedal on a Tesla EV and realizing there’s little to no delay on the giddy-up?
The 0-60 on a standard Model 3 can be under 6 seconds (and just get faster from there) and most…
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…
What blows my mind is Hertz just went whole hog into evs without trying them out in test markets for a couple years.
Based on the plastic yellow “inventory” tag on the key, I’d say this is a dealer posing as a Craigslist seller, so yeah, there’s some wiggle room in the price.
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.
“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…
Normally a 20 year old German car would be a ND from me, but at this price — for this kind of performance — I think the ask is just about worth the gamble. It’s still a close call, though, and I think for me it would come down to the vibe I got from the seller.