"Always cheaper than gas."
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Er, no.
https://news.yahoo.com/brother-sister-had-stop-6-090000489.html
A man said he and his sister rented a Tesla and needed to stop six times in one day to charge it.
Xaviar Steavenson and his sister Alice drove from Orlando, Florida, to Wichita, Kansas.
Steavenson said he'd heard others had similar issues; Hertz said there hadn't been a major increase.
Xaviar and Alice Steavenson wanted to find out what it's like to drive a Tesla, so they rented one from Hertz for a trip from Orlando, Florida, to Wichita, Kansas.
They say they knew the electric car would need charging en route — and expected it to take longer after the weather turned so cold in late December — but what the siblings didn't expect was just how often they'd need to plug it in.
Xaviar Steavenson told Insider it got to the point that the "battery would drain faster than it would charge."
When they set off, Steavenson said, they could drive for at least 2 ½ hours before needing to charge the Tesla. "We ended up having to stop every one to 1 ½ hours to charge for an hour, then an hour and a half, then two hours," he said.
"So beyond the lost time, it also got to the point it was between $25 and $30 to recharge," Steavenson said. "Just in one day, we stopped six times to charge at that cost."
Steavenson said Hertz said on its website that renting a Tesla was "always cheaper than gas" but added that he'd found the claim to be far from his experience.
He said when he and his sister first called Hertz, the agent told him he'd "had nothing but Tesla calls today" and had "no idea why they're having issues."
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Is this another case of someone voluntarily suffering through a bad EV use case for publicity?
@jon-nyc said in "Always cheaper than gas.":
Is this another case of someone voluntarily suffering through a bad EV use case for publicity?
Possible. Doesn't make it false, however.
Searching around I found several similar stories - long charging times, short range of travel, etc.
Most say, "EV's are nice, but if you want to be practical in colder climates, charge at home."
