{"id":53372,"date":"2024-01-13T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53372"},"modified":"2024-01-13T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:48:35","slug":"tell-us-something-without-actually-telling-us-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53372","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us Something Without Actually Telling Us Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently WWAYTV3<\/a> in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported that Hertz is cutting back on its rental of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Hertz, which has made a big push into electric vehicles in recent years, has decided it\u2019s\u00a0time to cut back. The company will sell off a third of its electric fleet, totaling roughly 20,000 vehicles, and use the money they bring to purchase more gasoline powered vehicles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Electric vehicles have been hurting Hertz\u2019s financials, executives have said, because, despite costing less to maintain, they have higher damage-repair costs and, also, higher depreciation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[C]ollision and damage repairs on an EV can often run about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle,\u201d Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr said in a recent analyst call.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And EV price declines in the new car market have pushed down the resale value of Hertz\u2019s used EV rental cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe MSRP declines in EVs over the course of 2023, driven primarily by Tesla, have driven the fair market value of our EVs lower as compared to last year, such that a salvage creates a larger loss and, therefore, greater burden,\u201d Scherr said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply put, people are generally willing to pay a certain amount less for a used car than for a new one. As the price of new car goes down, that also pushes down what people are willing to pay to buy a used one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of now, electric cars are not the answer to green energy. There are serious ethical questions about the mining of the lithium that is used to make the batteries, and there are safety issues–don’t try to evacuate from a hurricane in an electric car if the puddles you are driving through contain salt water–that can cause the car to ignite. Iceland successfully uses hydrogen as fuel for its busses. There are other options for cutting pollution than electric cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently WWAYTV3 in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported that Hertz is cutting back on its rental of electric vehicles. The article reports: Hertz, which has made a big push into electric vehicles in recent years, has decided it\u2019s\u00a0time to cut back. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1344,10008,1983,9372,317,17157,111,3195,625],"class_list":["post-53372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-electric-cars","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-green-energy","tag-hertz","tag-iceland","tag-lithium","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53373,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions\/53373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}