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phreddyp

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Kyle said:
The Rivian, at least, is a Truck.

Have no idea how the Tesla thing was supposed to function as one.
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It's not! Its designed to catch a moron! Just like most of the lures in a tackle box are not designed to catch a fish, they are to catch an angler.
 
glhs837

glhs837

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Kyle said:
The Rivian, at least, is a Truck.

Have no idea how the Tesla thing was supposed to function as one.
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So, what are the functions a truck is supposed to do? That question has a million answers. So, when you look at the things it should be able to do, you should look at the benchmark it was aimed at, the crew cab short bed F-150, the single most popular version of the F-150 sold.

AS to the Rivian, it matches up pretty close. Exceeds in some ways like bed size and payload, and has a roomier interior.

Rivian vs CT.jpeg
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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glhs837 said:
So, what are the functions a truck is supposed to do? That question has a million answers. So, when you look at the things it should be able to do, you should look at the benchmark it was aimed at, the crew cab short bed F-150, the single most popular version of the F-150 sold.

AS to the Rivian, it matches up pretty close. Exceeds in some ways like bed size and payload, and has a roomier interior.

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Unlike every Tesla except the model S the Rivan is attractive.
 
glhs837

glhs837

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PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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glhs837 said:
Around here they cost a bit more.

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Those look like ones they still rent. I assumed the cheap ones were what they actually want to get rid of to refresh their fleet.

Personally I'd never buy a car that had been a rental.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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Wait! Repairs?

These are EV's! They're perfect and don't need repair shops.

Hertz must be lying.

They must not have read about the Jesus-Resurrection Mode setting they all have. :sshrug:
 
glhs837

glhs837

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Kyle said:
Wait! Repairs?

These are EV's! They're perfect and don't need repair shops.

Hertz must be lying.

They must not have read about the Jesus-Resurrection Mode setting they all have. :sshrug:
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Its repairs for damage and collisions, not maintenance.

From an October article.

Part of the problem is linked to Hertz’s plans to rent EVs to ridehail drivers. Of the 100,000 Tesla acquired by Hertz, half were to be allocated to Uber drivers as part of a deal with the ridehail company. And drivers said they loved the Teslas! But Uber drivers also tend to drive their vehicles into the ground. This higher rate of utilization can lead to a lot of damage — certainly more than Hertz was anticipating.
Hertz said it tried to mitigate “higher incidents of damage among EV rideshare drivers” by siphoning some of its fleet into its leisure segment. But that didn’t work out as well as the company hoped.

“Higher incidents of damage among EV rideshare drivers”
“With hindsight, this left leisure over fleeted with EVs,” Scherr said in an earnings call this week. “As a result, RPD [revenue per day] for our electric vehicles in leisure dropped, which contributed to the lower RPD performance for the company in the quarter.”
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glhs837

glhs837

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phreddyp said:
Sounds like just another EV negative to me, your thoughts on the matter? Many of these EVs are Tesla's mind you.
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Well, I've never once looked at damage repair costs when buying a vehicle. In over 40 years over owning cars, I've needed bodywork maybe 4 times. And yes, they are Teslas. Virtually all of them.

Hertz made a three bad choices. One was the Uber deal. Guy who picked me up in Atlanta with his literally day old Tesla from Hertz a year and a half ago was loving it at a rental cost to him of $300 bucks a week. And Hertz carried the insurance.The second was [ulling them back from the Uber fleet to regular rental service without making extra effort to ensure renters were both okay with them, and got a good briefing in how they work.

When I rented one, I received an email with links to good Tesla videos showing how things work. But a lot of people wont bother. And at the counter side, nobody said "Sir, you are getting a Tesla, are you okay with and do you want someone to give you a walkthrough."m

Too many people just get tossed a keycard and sent to the car.
 
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phreddyp

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glhs837 said:
Well, I've never once looked at damage repair costs when buying a vehicle. In over 40 years over owning cars, I've needed bodywork maybe 4 times. And yes, they are Teslas. Virtually all of them.

Hertz made a couple of bad choices.One was the Uber deal. Guy who picked me up in Atlanta with his literally day old Tesla from Hertz a year and a half ago was loving it at a rental cost to him of $300 bucks a week. And Hertz carried the insurance.
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Pretty much all EV buyers are making bad choices, exactly what was the one or more that Hertz made besides not reading the owners manual?
 
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