Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
by collabs on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:58AM
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I feel like this road trip thing is over exaggerated. What if we (as a society) rented a Toyota Sienna or something equally boring when we need to go on a road trip?
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Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
by bluGill on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:28AM
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Every try to do that?
The cost of a rental car for a week is high - you can pay for a lot of gas for the cost of renting a car a few times a year.
More than one person I know has tried to rent a car and discovered they didn't have any on the day they went to pick it up. If your car can make the trip you avoid all the issue.
Note the above is about road trips. If you are flying (or taking the train) someplace than you will rent anyway (or have some other plans). However one of the advantages of road trips is you take your own car.
Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
by whatever1 on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:11PM
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You realistically cannot rent an SUV from a non-airport car-rental branch on a public holiday long weekend. They simply don’t have inventory.
I tried once, I had to uber to the airport get the suv from there, and then after returning it the airport I had to return back home via uber. Easily burned over $1000 for just the transportation for that long weekend.