I don’t have the numbers to back this up…but my guess is that if you bought a BEV with a 200 mile range and then rented an ICE vehicle for all long trips that you would still come out substantially ahead…
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There was no fib in his report. Because it didn’t shine the most favorable light on BEV doesn’t mean it was inaccurate or wrong. The car didn’t meet any of the manufacturer mileage estimates and lost over 50% of mileage when it was parked overnight outside in the cold… 38 down to 15.
Its good that the driver didn’t get caught out on one of those interstates that could have been shut down due to a major accident and was detoured off where he had to drive what could be miles upon miles to get back on his route. Hopefully he could have found a pig farm with a rapid charger.
But I’ll have to agree. A BEV is good if you don’t want to go very far, don’t want to leave town or don’t need to unexpectedly go anywhere in a hurry during a recharge. Yet an ICE is good in any of those scenarios. Yes its good to make sure you have a second car, i.e. an ICE on standby.
Anyone that wants to have or use a BEV should be able to, anyone that doesn’t shouldn’t have to.
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For the pure enjoyment of driving a car, BEVs beat ICE cars hands-down, ask anyone who owns one.
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That sums up the issue perfectly.
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Did Hertz reach the EV tipping point?
Hertz to sell one-third of EV fleet in shift back to gas-powered cars | Financial Post.
Yes… but not in a pro-EV way. 
I think it’s a case of their CEO jumping on the EV bandwagon a tad too early. Evidently they assumed a BEV was just another car, it’s not, it’s another animal in many ways. You can’t just replace a gas car with a BEV and assume everything is the same, but that’s what they did.
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People in northern states might consider
Ask a Tesla owner in Chicagoland to explain it. Is a move to Sweden an option?
““It’s not plug and go. You have to precondition the battery, meaning that you have to get the battery up to the optimal temperature to accept a fast charge,” said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.”
How convenient… let the class actions begin.
Kinda reminds us of this doesn’t it…
"During two separate oil crises in the 1970s, Americans from coast to coast faced persistent gas shortages as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, flexed its muscles and disrupted oil supplies.
In 1973 and again in 1979, drivers frequently faced around-the-block lines when they tried to fill up.
Drivers would go to stations before dawn or late at night, hoping to avoid the lines.
Odd-even rationing was introduced — meaning that if the last digit on your license plate was odd, you could get gas only on odd-numbered days. New Jersey and New York have just reintroduced the system."
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LOL no it doesn’t. Self induced injury due to forced bad policy vs self induced injury due to limits of technology is no comparison.
Anyone that wants to use or own an EV should be able to, anyone that doesn’t shouldn’t have to.
Why these people keep calling Tesla for help is quite curious, as if this was some type of big surprise.
What’s wrong with what billinin posted?
“Anyone that wants to have or use a BEV should be able to, anyone that doesn’t shouldn’t have to.”
THAT is the issue…! Gov’t forcing EV’s on everyone.
Let the free market dictate the direction of industrialization, not the gov’t.
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So electric batteries have to be warmed to accept a charge in cold weather. I can understand that. Not really suprising for diesel people either.
In a diesel engine, a glow plug (also spelled glowplug) is a heating device used to aid starting of the engine in cold weather. This device is a pencil-shaped piece of metal with an electric heating element at the tip.
When I lived in cold locatiuons, I too needed to warm up before I could start in cold weather (usually a cup of hot coffee).
That isn’t the case for anyone over 50 years of age. And that’s probably you and me as well as over half the people on this forum. It’s a non issue.
Unless things get a whole lot worse climate-wise we’ll be seeing ice cars on the road at least until 2050.
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True. I phrased that poorly.
In the distant [near?] future when buying a new car, people will have to chose only EV’s.
The EV vs ICE debate reminds me of my hotrod teen years and the endless [also useless] debates of Ford vs Chevy.
Except for one difference: gov’t did not mandate one kind of car and ban the others.
or just not own an ev and have none the issues
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they needed generator that burned fossil fuel.
2 paragraphs above your highlighted text
“We shouldn’t claim victory that with this switch to electric cars, problem solved, we are going to have zero emissions,” he says. “No, that’s not the case. But electric cars are actually much, much better in terms of the impact on the climate in comparison to internal combustion vehicles. And in time, that comparative advantage of electric cars is going to grow.”
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