Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr is history
Mar 24, 2024, 2:33 pm
#16
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: YXY
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I am as environmentally conscious as anyone, but I must say, the EVs are a particularly bad fit for business car rentals. Typically, I fly somewhere, rent a car to go to several back to back meetings, and then rush back to the airport to fly somewhere else. There is no time to find a charging station and twiddle my thumbs waiting for the battery to charge. The few times that I have been rented EVs when reserving a regular car, you have to make sure they aren't banging you with the ridiculous charging fee. So all in all, not a great fit.
Except that maybe they need more real estate to keep the cars parked while charging.
Mar 24, 2024, 9:33 pm
#17
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 27,240
I am as environmentally conscious as anyone, but I must say, the EVs are a particularly bad fit for business car rentals. Typically, I fly somewhere, rent a car to go to several back to back meetings, and then rush back to the airport to fly somewhere else. There is no time to find a charging station and twiddle my thumbs waiting for the battery to charge. The few times that I have been rented EVs when reserving a regular car, you have to make sure they aren't banging you with the ridiculous charging fee. So all in all, not a great fit.
If non-Tesla, I understand it may be much less convenient.
Mar 28, 2024, 10:22 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: NYC
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Posts: 664
Another problem with Hertz is for the last decade, they keep on hiring CEO/COO's with zero auto/rental car experience. New CEO was last at GM cruise (where he was fired as a result of an investigation into the cover-up of a crash with a pedestrian in SF https://www.automotivedive.com/news/...probes/702549/) and the current COO came from Carrier, an air conditioning manufacturer... Surely there are some senior people at Enterprise they can poach.