[LittleTimothy]

To answer your question directly: EVs aren't more expensive to service than ICE vehicles. If you piece together the quotes from various high level Hertz people, the problem is just that repair costs for accidents for Teslas are around 2x the cost for other comparable cars. And the reason for that is largely that Tesla doesn't have the large parts and repairs network that the traditional dealers have.

>According to Johann Rawlinson, Hertz VP of Investor Relations, "collision and damage repairs on an EV can often run about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle."

>In fact, according to Stephen Scherr, Hertz's CEO, "there's quite a bit of the cost element that relates to the Teslas as opposed to others." Scherr pointed to GM's EVs, which benefit from a larger parts and repair network nationally and lower parts and labor costs for repairs. Note that a full 80 percent of Hertz's EV fleet is Tesla models.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/hertz-ev-fleet-sale-tesla-re...