Sixt (and US-based Hertz) are dropping Tesla not so much for political reasons, but because people just don't want to rent them. Apparently, the idea of spending hours at a charging station before returning the rental for an early-morning flight does not appeal to everybody.
There were other economic reasons (dramatic loss of resale value…
Sixt (and US-based Hertz) are dropping Tesla not so much for political reasons, but because people just don't want to rent them. Apparently, the idea of spending hours at a charging station before returning the rental for an early-morning flight does not appeal to everybody.
There were other economic reasons (dramatic loss of resale value, high repair bills). I won't rule out that politics made the decision easy, but it probably wasn't the major factor.
The only other car rental that had Teslas, albeit in small numbers, was Enterprise in their luxury division, and last I checked, they also seem to have quietly removed them from their inventory. That was before Musk went openly right-wing, though.
Sixt (and US-based Hertz) are dropping Tesla not so much for political reasons, but because people just don't want to rent them. Apparently, the idea of spending hours at a charging station before returning the rental for an early-morning flight does not appeal to everybody.
There were other economic reasons (dramatic loss of resale value, high repair bills). I won't rule out that politics made the decision easy, but it probably wasn't the major factor.
The only other car rental that had Teslas, albeit in small numbers, was Enterprise in their luxury division, and last I checked, they also seem to have quietly removed them from their inventory. That was before Musk went openly right-wing, though.
That might be true of Sixt, and Enterprise, but Rossmann has been very public on not supporting Musk because he supports Trump.