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by grobgambit 775 days ago
Couldn't agree more with all this.

I would love to rent a Tesla exactly as mentioned but waiting 30 minutes at the start or the end is just unacceptable to me.

I would need to be given a pretty good discount on the rental to even consider it.

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I typically rent a car to go between LA and the bay area. All modern gas cars can make that trip on one tank. An EV can not.

At this point someone usually pipes up with "well you were going to be stopping for an hour somewhere anyway". No I was not. I stopped for less than 5 minutes at a rest stop to pee. And I stopped at a gas station to buy a quarter tank because that's all the room I had. Price seemed right and the milage estimate said I wasn't going to make it without. Turns out I filled up only 3/4 of a tank in San Jose before drop off so that stop wasn't needed after all.