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Ride the Lightning: Hertz Selling Off 20,000 Electric Cars
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Not so great deals.. Cars are listed at prices in the blue book value range for year and miles.
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No battery warranty I bet
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Never buy a used rental car.
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I rememer when hertz sold all their special edition corvettes a few years back, SUCKAS!!
https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/misc/...orvettezhz.jsp |
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Buying a used car I can work on is bad enough. Buying a used car made for me not to work on seems suicidal.
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Even rental car companies now know what a fraud EV's are.
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My concern would be that renters often will not care or know about keeping the battery healthy. No way of knowing if renters left the car charged to 100% for days or let the car sit at 1% for a longer period of time which causes serious degradation to the battery. I would not buy a rental EV.
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You want to talk about misleading? This is the absolute definition of it. The published ranges from the EPA go from 100% to 0%. You can't do EITHER of those things without "serious degradation to the battery". EPA numbers not meeting the real world because of driving conditions, etc is 1 thing. Not being able to meet the numbers ... because it permanently damages your car is something completely different. You can talk about Tesla not being liable for the EPA numbers because that is regulated, great, that's no different than ICE EPA testing, but Tesla (and the rest) is sure as hell responsible for the fact that if you actually do achieve what is advertised, it permanently f**ks up your car... which is absolutely NOT the same as ICE. |
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Wait, what? Leaving the battery "charged to 100% for days causes serious degradation to the battery?" What the actual ****? |
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https://www.tesla.com/support/range https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/m...641FFAEF4.html If you can charge and leave charge at 100% depends on the type of battery you have. On LFP, you can and should charge to 100% every day if possible. On |
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BTW, REGARDLESS of your charging routine, you got your battery warranty which includes degradation. Tesla has zero to do with the process on how EPA numbers are determined. It's not Tesla's standard. As long as they did not accurately abide by the standard, the blame has to go to the EPA, not Tesla. |
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Charging to 100% is not a problem as long as you immediately use the car. Same goes to running down the battery to 0%. You can do that as long as you don't let it set at that low charge level. That's just the way those batteries work. |
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These cars get supercharged every day - most likely up to 100% - by ignorant renters. Those battery packs are flogged. And we won't even mention all of the "jackrabbit starts" at every stoplight. |
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I get 323 miles range at 100% right now after almost 2 years, 35k miles. New range was 333. Less than 4% degradation in almost 2 years. First year is usually 5% followed by 0.5% to 1% every following year. Just pulled my BMS data. |
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