 Poster: A snowHead
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Starting my booking a day earlier, but ending on the same date (ie one booking a day longer than the other) made it £50 cheaper for the longer duration booking. The pricing seems driven by the start date of a rental.
Other things I discovered:
French side (Avis at least, didn’t check others) now also has a cross border charge.
Hertz EVs remain very good value. A Kia EV6 (decent sized car) was the same price as a polo. Given how easy I found the whole EV rental and recharging experience last year, I can highly recommend it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Interesting, with the EV was there a requirement to return it with a full battery or face a penalty charge?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| DaveyGTi wrote: |
| Interesting, with the EV was there a requirement to return it with a full battery or face a penalty charge? |
Return with a 75% charge. Seems reasonable as there are several high speed charging stations within 25% battery range, including three Tesla Superchargers which are open to non-Tesla brands and seem to be cheaper than other high speed charging stations.
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| snowdave wrote: |
| Hertz EVs remain very good value. A Kia EV6 (decent sized car) was the same price as a polo. Given how easy I found the whole EV rental and recharging experience last year, I can highly recommend it. |
+1.
I've got six rentals booked so far, all EVs via Hertz. For a week's hire they seem to be about £30 more expensive than the cheapest Economy grade car on offer, for a significantly nicer and more spacious car. I'd always assumed that renting an EV would be significantly more expensive so hadn't bothered to check the prices, but I think you reported last winter that EV rental was cheaper than you expected, so this winter I did check prices and found the same as you. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think rental fleets are facing regulatory imperatives to have a certain proportion of EVs. Either that or as opportunistic buyers of major OEM output they are scoring a fair slice of the volume they have to sell to keep on the right side of EV/Ice limits.
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@DaveyGTi, We use Europcar from Geneva (loyalty scheme means we get free 2nd driver, plus no x-border charge), and they don’t have a requirement to return with any minimum % of battery. They keep saying they’re going to bring it in, but I have cars booked as far ahead as next March and they all say “includes a full charge”. We have used Hertz but the €30 x-border charge meant it was never as cheap.
Although if they did bring it in, we can just about get from Morzine to Genava airport on just under 20% of a smallish EV battery if we’re steady away - I did manage it in a VW ID-Buzz, which is shaped like a brick, but that did involve no more than 100km/h on the autoroute.
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I have also found Geneva Swiss side rental prices to be reasonable again. Off next week and again in early December and Hertz were good each time, and for two people, competitive with an SBB Saver Day Pass.
But when I looked at the EV prices they were truly bizarre - £3,000+ for five days rental. Perhaps they didn't have any left because @snowdave and @rob@rar had bagged them all? I'll still take my VALT and evpass cards anyway and just see if there's any reasonable EVs on offer when I pick the car up.
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@LaForet, the best Hertz EV deals didn’t appear on the standard search results page when I looked, I had to click “show all” and then “select for quote” against the Kia. It’s almost like the backend system knows it’s a very good price, as the default EV option was something smaller costing more than the Kia. Not £3k tho…
What dates were you looking at?
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@snowdave, Europcar have a quirk when it comes to EV searches too. If I search on the app the cheapest EV is often something like an Enyaq - if I look on the website an ID3 or Cupra Born (Golf size ish) appears at about the same price as a petrol Polo!
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