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Montecarlossfan
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- First Name
- Mike
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2024
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- Location
- Connecticut
- Vehicles
- 2023 Azure Gray XLT Lightning
- Occupation
- Programmer
Not that I have found …I ended up purchasing after a good test drive anyway .. I drive a ton of different vehicles when traveling for work and usually run into some odd ones here and there but never a lightning .. plenty of teslas and polestars .
tubby
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I would not want to rent out a Lightning I owned, especially with the old saying...drive it like a rental. 
-Lightnings can take too long to charge back to 100% which rental companies are not used to. In some cases many hours or overnight compared to 5-10 min filling with fuel, or typically 0 time since many renters return ICE vehicles full to save on the per gallon price charged.
-Renters would not want to recharge them and would need to if they are driving over 250 miles.
-Rental companies would likely get a lot more questions with Lightnings than an ICE.
-They are too costly to repair. You break a tail light and it's over $2000.
-They have been too expensive to put on the rental lot. Even the insurance for them is high. Unless you as a rental company are used to renting out high dollar sports cars.
-If they are in a cooler/northern part of the country and they are renting to pull a 3000+lb trailer over 100mi, the renter would not be happy.
-Lightnings can take too long to charge back to 100% which rental companies are not used to. In some cases many hours or overnight compared to 5-10 min filling with fuel, or typically 0 time since many renters return ICE vehicles full to save on the per gallon price charged.
-Renters would not want to recharge them and would need to if they are driving over 250 miles.
-Rental companies would likely get a lot more questions with Lightnings than an ICE.
-They are too costly to repair. You break a tail light and it's over $2000.
-They have been too expensive to put on the rental lot. Even the insurance for them is high. Unless you as a rental company are used to renting out high dollar sports cars.
-If they are in a cooler/northern part of the country and they are renting to pull a 3000+lb trailer over 100mi, the renter would not be happy.
p52Ranch
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I’m driving an XLT SR Lightning rental from Avis this week. They must have just got it in the fleet on June 6th. It had 70 miles on the odometer when I picked it up in MSP on Monday.
The goofballs from Avis hadn’t charged it so it only had 53% charge with 106 miles of range. I knew that would be enough range for me this week.
The goofballs from Avis hadn’t charged it so it only had 53% charge with 106 miles of range. I knew that would be enough range for me this week.
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