True, but if a huge company is willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars and sell off it's EV fleet, that's gotta be a sign of things to come. (just how much does it cost to replace those batteries and how often? Ask Hertz.)

Hertz has an extremely different use case than the average consumer.

They put wildly more mileage on cars with drivers who, at best, don't care a bit about the long-term survival of the vehicle. Those drivers are also not typically at home, so they have to find public charging stations rather than plugging in at home at night.

Your points are well taken. I am an average consumer, one who is retired, I can't afford to gamble on a product that costs so much to maintain. So, I do research to see what is happening in the market. I can't think of a test case better then the one Hertz provides me for free. They ran the numbers and determined EVs just aren't worth the gamble. (most rental cars are usually driven in town, which is mostly what I do.) They're getting out and I'm not getting in.