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I only rent a car when going on holidays abroad for a week. There is no way I would choose Electric. Filling car once and forgeting about it is a must for me

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I take from your comment that you probably haven’t driven an electric car. The whole point is that you plug it in where are you are staying. Every morning, you wake up to a fully charged up car.

You don’t drive to the charging station. Those are essentially for road trips.

What if you're staying in a hotel, as pretty typical for rental usage for vacations or business ?

You charge at the hotel.

https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging

I just checked the website of my go-to hotel in Florida, the Sheraton Sand Key (390 rooms), and they have precisely one charger. It is free, but that makes it even more unlikely it'd actually be available.

No doubt the charger situation is rapidly improving, but it seems there's still a long way to go to match the convenience of gas. Long charge times can be mitigated by "destination charging", but if a major hotel chain like the Sheraton only has a single charger at a tourist hot-spot location like Sand Key (by Clearwater), then it seems we've still got a ways to go.

All my travel is within Europe and I stay only in budget hotels. Everywhere I have been I have not seen convenient place to charge car. Actually I have seen electric cars even as cheaper option than traditional cars when renting. IMO it's a good option for a few days when you don't need to recharge. There are limited vacation days and I am not ready spend this time thinking about charging

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