Some places are quite good and quick, but they are company and location dependent.
I can tell you horror stories about reserved cars not being there, about meetings missed or late because I tried renting a car for one part of a day, so I could avoid using an ICE. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Yes. Rental companies have those type of agreements - you get a key fob or > something like that and can reserve a car online and minutes later go pick > it up. > > Also, there's flex car and car-2-go. > > Peri > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "John Lussmyer" <cou...@casadelgato.com> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org>; "Peri Hartman" > <pe...@kotatko.com> > Sent: 29-Aug-14 3:40:12 PM > Subject: Re: EVLN: As EV battery prices fall> ?More range or lower 100mi EV > cost? > >> On Fri Aug 29 15:03:02 PDT 2014 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >>> I think one could argue that if you take a 100 mile trip once every 6 >>> weeks, an EV for everything else might work. Renting once every 6 weeks >>> would be reasonable, perhaps. >>> >>> However, aside from the Tesla, 100 mile trips aren't possible. More >>> like 55 to 75 depending on vehicle and conditions. So, renting would be >>> more frequent than 6 weeks and, as Ben says, probably past being a >>> reasonable choice. >>> >>> Of course there are other factors. >>> - Do you own two cars? >>> - Can you charge at your destination (e.g. work)? >>> - Is it easy to rent or borrow a car? >>> - Can you charge at home? >> >> Can you rent on the spur of the moment without wasting hours of time? >> >> >> -- >> >> Try my Sensible Email package! >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/sensibleemail/ > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
