Hertz is in business to make money. It is a BUSINESS not a government anti pollution program. I did not build my 40 foot long Totally Electric Powered Solar (TEPS)tm boat for sale or rental. It would never yield a profit that to allow a company to generate enough money to pay workers, a design team, insurance, taxes, marketing and enough profit for me to plow back into sales.
I am a solar boat nut because it works perfectly BUT only for a few folks who desire a slow go. EVs provide a fast go but limited range - therefore limited acceptance. Hertz has run the numbers and the numbers are poor (to put it exceptionally nice). My solar boat, its design, 35 years work, testing and upgrades has shown me that I will stick to ICEs for the rest of my foreseeable life. Preferable ICEs are vintage 1956 to 1979. However a 2005 Mercedes Benz Sprinter, five cylinder diesel, low emission is approaching 300k miles of carefree driving. EVs are great for certain applications and limited range unlike the MOG Canal Boat with unlimited range and low speed. As an industrial designer I expect more than a glass dash to impulse me to buy an EV. I want power, speed, economy of PURCHASE, economy of fueling (electricity), low maintenance/cost and stations galore for fuel. That ain’t happened yet and Hertz is wiser. Until there is a 10 minute zero to full battery charge station with 20 servers every few kilometers and a vastly improved national grid to deliver the gigawatts of power to slake demand, I will be on the sidelines rooting for the EVs but definitely not impressed to date. _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
