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Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Apparently it’s related to “expenses related to collision and damage” and they’ve had to put speed and torque limitations on the fleet cars.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hertz-sell-about-20000-evs-us-fleet-2024-01-11/

Telsas and Polestars are not slow cars, and it sounds like renters are driving them aggressively. I wouldn’t be surprised if torque and speed are also the reason why Tesla is #1 with recent car accidents stats.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Telsas and Polestars are not slow cars, and it sounds like renters are driving them aggressively.

    Driving a rental car - any rental car - more aggressively than your own car has been pretty typical behaviour since the beginning of rental cars.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly. Only now they’re twice as fast and require you to play a video game to turn the air vents.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I mean, technically you're not supposed to be fiddling with neither radio, AC or other crap on any car, touch or not, when you're driving. All of that should be set before you start driving anywhere. If you follow the law to the letter, the only thing you should operate while driving, is what can be done from the steering wheel controls and voice control.

    Of course that's now how most people actually drive their cars...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have never in my life heard this before. What if the window fogs up and you have to turn the defrost on?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    You should have anticipated this and directed airflow to the windshield before you start driving.

    I have also never experienced spontaneous fogging of the windshield while I'm driving, and I live in Scandinavian weather which is both humid and cold. It's always there when I enter the car. The AC dehumidifies the cabin air while driving so it really shouldn't be fogging the windshield out of the blue while you're driving.

    But besides that, steering wheel control or voice control cab enable/disable this in many cars these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah, but they usually don’t have a lot of those things on the lot to rent. They have a butt load of Model 3s. My guess is that it’s a numbers game.

    They also have a ton of data and footage to tell them what people are doing when they’re getting into accidents, and after looking at that stuff, they’re choosing to basically put these cars into a form of valet mode to limit acceleration.

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