Sky News host Rita Panahi says there’s “absolutely no demand” for electric vehicles from people renting cars.
“No one wants them – they’re so cheap because there’s absolutely no demand from people renting cars,” Ms Panahi said.
“Why would you want to be dependent on some machine that you need to attach to a wall for 12 hours or three hours if you’ve got a fast charger?”
This comes as Hertz replaces its CEO after the car rental company reverses its bet on electric vehicle rentals over increasing costs.
His resignation comes as the company struggles with the higher repair costs and low demand for EV rentals.
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They’ve been Markled. All MM had to do was stand in front of a Hertz stand, and a year later…. 😂
How smart is that spokesman!
You need to have the woke faith to believe in any of this crap@!
Renting an EV is kind of dumb. Usually you rent a car on vacation and plan to do lots of driving on unknown roads. Chargers aren't that common yet. When you're at home and can plug it in while the car sits in your garage overnight is a completely different scenario.
They may not be for everyone but I love mine.
'No one wants them', No Shit Sheer Luck….. And the same ones supporting this support the genocide of Israel?
3 mins into your clip and NO mention of your CLICK-BAIT Title – "Hertz CEO resigns following failed EV push"…
Shame on you – fast becoming the same as MSM 🤮
So much data from records kept for years and years that are facts rather than modelling, begs to differ that there is a climate change happening. Although it may be a climate change for the ones that are making billions out of this rubbish. Maybe Bowen can take on the promised job from who ever a little earlier and get out of our lives.
the leftturds with their BS virtue signalling policies are bankrupting Australia and any other country for taking on the global tyrannical policies of the WEF.
You don't have to go to jail to do time 'with hard labor'..just live under a Labor Government.
If I need a vehicle that is not my own, it's not for a good or fun reason. I want to put gogo juice in the tank, found at 150,000+ stations in the country, push pedal, and car go. I need as minimal bs as possible.
Don't you know that Maths are racist?
The CEO obviously doesn’t have a long term vision and he can’t see his biases for renewable energy. He deserves to be letting go. Who would be in the right mind to rent an EV? You waste all that time sitting at the charging station instead of getting to your desire destination. And once you are there, your friend’s house may or may not have a EV charger.
Idiots. How can these "movers and shakers" be so ignorant and out of touch as to not notice that EVs don't go far, don't charge when it's cold, catch fire all the time?! Obviously a joke, a made up solution for a nonexistant problem.
Good I never rent a EV.
Except Teslas. I see them everywhere.
imagine an electric diesel semi truck catching on fire. it's already horrifying to try to put out an ev car fire.
That's Chase the CEO of Edison trucks in Canada.
His company builds hybrid electric logging trucks.
Check out Edison trucks Canada they have a great story about building a truck from drawing board to manufacture.
The Guy is a Genius
The maths adds up fine. It's not about you changing your car, it's about you losing your car. Welcome to neo feudalism. Change your government, not your car!
Nobody still talking about what it takes to creates the battery 😂😂😂
Es gibt nicht genug Strom !! Für diesen unsinn.
That doesn't make any sense for EV rental cars at all. Most of the time I rent a car when I come to different cities which I am not familiar with. How/where do I know the chargers? Hertz said that they installed chargers at their rental locations, but most of their offices are nearby the airport.
My wife just rented a Tesla for $40 less per day than even the cheapest small car they had on offer. Literally giving it away.
"No one wants them." Yeah, that's why Tesla owner Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in America.
Listen you bunch of … The only way to solve your problems is to REDUCE THE SCALE OF INDUSTRIES. Stop playing with the big giant toys humans! Scale down and duplicate economies of scale.
The woke liberals driving EV's in the cities think they're saving the planet
I said this 20 years ago! Electric Vehicles are a good idea but, right now, the technology is just not there yet!
These EV advocates think it it can happen overnight! They thought the same 20 years ago! To make EVs viable, there needs to be q Quantum Leap in Battery Technology! Something compared to going from Vacuum Tubes to Transistors, then from there to Integrated Circuits! There needs to be a way of making something about half the size if a 12v Car battery that can produce very, very high voltage and amps, can last over 400 miles and be able to charge in 5 minutes! Also, it must be safe! No chance for explosions from a defective battery! Did I hearread correctly; there was some flooding in Florida…when the Sea Water made contact with some EV batteries.. the bloody things blew up!! Did I hear that right??
I have used my gas powered SUV to travel across the USA a number of times with no problems. You can't do that with any EV vehicle. EV vehicles are over priced, a fire hazard and not a good investment. Shalom
Here in Australia the unions have heavily invested their members Superannuation into renewables. Unions also 'donate' (pay for preference) to the Labor party. Someone convince me that the politicians aren't going to keep favouring their donors. Also convince me that those same unions haven't invested in EV technology.. The irony is that their own members are at some point if we continue in this direction, is that the members will end up unemployed because companies wont be able to afford to keep them on.
Follow the money.
EV’s are a scam Bowen is a dickhead
E.V's Are Joke A Stupid Monygrab and a Lie All Electricity is made by nr.1 Oil 2.Coal Nuclear And batterys are expensive to make and made from cemicals that are bad for all only country that uses all hydropower for that is Iceland And Thats Not Enuff in cold ev's dont work burn often no range in cold way to heavy and nobody wants a used ev with worn battery its a fucking joke a lie it is a way to take our travel freedom they can control ev's not cas and diesel powerd cars its a worthless toaster with Tires Nothing More A Moronic Idea From The Start woke Crap
FJB
EV’s… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It doesn't make cents and sure as HELL doesn't make dollars…..oh man…that Hertz! Get it….. "hurts"…..Never forget the Mercedes dealer who lent an EV to woman why her Benz was getting repaired. The thing caught on FIRE in their ATTACHED garage and near burnt it DOWN. No….we are NOT ready.
Here in Michigan, U.S., Ford has hundreds of EV pickup trucks built with no interest from purchasing consumers. The Ford dealers can't sell the EV pickups they still have in their inventories.
There was a couple of well publicized incidences with the Ford F150 Lightning EV pickup truck that the consumer public seem to had latched onto the negative aspect of the electric pick up truck and it claimed range for battery life. One incident left a family stranded with a F150 Lightning that was out of battery power, who the family had to rent a gasoline powered F150 pickup truck to tow their trailer to continue their journey.
In the US, a pickup truck used to be a tool to get a tradesmen from point A to point B hauling equipment of the trade. Now the pickup truck has become a status symbol for the upper middle class to haul groceries. This is the reason for the obtuse concept of the EV pickup truck.
Trains have been diesel/electric hybrid for a very long time and that technology works it shouldn’t be that hard to pair a diesel engine with a generator, and then electric drive motors on the axles which would drastically increase the fuel efficiency of the engine as far as miles per gallon and reduce fuel consumption as a byproduct reduce emissions
Every time he said gigawatt it reminded me of Back to the Future 🙂
This is the truth. 😎👍👊🇦🇺 https://youtu.be/aHNzeamaf7o?si=zb2GSFDaESHdAukW
If you want some light entertainment pertaining to a similar subject, just search on YT for the video footage of U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) questioning witnesses on the timeline of creating fully electric train networks during a Senate Environment and Public Works hearing. The word stupid doesn't quite describe these politicians sufficiently.
Surely people realise that today's Diesel Electric Locomotives, heavy trucks and passenger cars are the culmination of many decades of evolution in design and engineering from the first steam engine devised by Newcomen in 1712? To expect a conversion within 10 or 20 years to a fully electric technology that has not been refined yet, is utter madness. Yes, the electric motors, gearboxes and electronics may be getting reliable by now, because these have been developed in our current transport systems over the past 125 years plus. But the source of the power – the batteries – that makes these mechanical components work, is riddled with problems and I doubt there is a single national grid in the world equipped to handle the expected surge in demand for the electricity needed to charge these volatile batteries, which can only produce a fraction of the mileage that a tank of petrol or diesel can. The environmental catastrophe looming on the horizon, from the production and use of these batteries, wind generators and solar panels is horrific. Water is the most precious resource on the planet and when the seas, rivers and lakes are all polluted by heavy metals from billions of discarded batteries – then we will truly know misery on a global scale when all the flora and fauna are poisoned.
People today have a 3 second attention span. Nobody wants to wait an hour or more to charge their vehicles.
The woke are getting woken up! It was always just a matter of time. Truth always rises to the top.
Also he didnt mention theres still a carbon footprint. Im a big advocate of hybrids and believe thats the center we will end up on but hydro is looking good too.
There is a famous saying…. "Horses for Courses"…. Meaning you need the right horse to do a particular job (eg: a racehorse can't plow a field and a plow horse can't win a race). While electric vehicles may be great for inner city and short distance driving they will never cover all driving needs. I have a friend at work who tows a 1.5ton trailer with equipment on it for over 500klms per week in mud, rain and into country areas with no power- He can never stay in business and get his job done with an electric vehicle. We have 2 cars and one is a 4WD, where I live it floods every few years and we have the 4WD for that reason and can't rely on an electric vehicle in that emergency but…. 99% of our family driving is local under 100klms per day so our second car could be an electric vehicle but…. we can't afford the cost of buying one, we just don't have the income to buy a $45,000+ electric car (petrol savings are not even a factor) on top of our $600pw mortgage and all other cost of living and raising kids.
If you want something to cost three time as much have government do it or mandate it.
They’re rubbish
Too many compromises…
And they are not going to save any pollution….
Not fit for purpose
A trucker who has all the info at hand.
This guy has it all wrong! The politicians own stock in EV.
A 10 th grader could have told hertz that a EV renter was a STUPID idea ..
What are these IDIOTS smoking ?