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> As a non-Tesla owner, I'd love to rent a Tesla on my vacations just to try it before deciding on buying one.

Me too. I actually looked into that a few months ago. In Boston Massachusetts, there is this place: https://www.teslarents.com/

But we were going to San Francisco not Boston, and there was nothing that I could google up. With the exception of Oslo, Norway; I've never seen so many Teslas as I did in the Bay area, but it seemed really hard to rent one for a few days.

Maybe by the next time that I'm there a Tesla 3 will be standard at Hertz, but in 2021 you'll be lucky to get a Nissan. The competence and availability of even that, was low.

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Try Turo. There tend to be quite a few Teslas there. https://turo.com/

I'm not sure that I "get" Turo. this is ... Airbnb for cars?

In any case, I don't think it would have worked for us, we handed the car back days later, in a different city. Which is fine for Hertz, but probably not for a Turo "host"?

It's likely that by the next time we're there, things will be different.

Yes, like airbnb. The host delivers and retrieves the vehicle within whatever operating radius they want to offer, so two cities is very unlikely. However, I think there is some kind of variable delivery fee, so as long as you want to pay that and get the owner to agree to set a gigantic radius, it might work.

https://support.turo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203991040-Choosin... says:

> You’re not able to set one location for pickup and a different location for drop off when you book your trip. But once the trip is booked, you can request to change your delivery pickup or drop off location. Once the trip is in progress you can still request to change the drop off location. The new location must be one where the host already offers delivery, or it must be within their custom delivery radius.

Turo is a huge market for laundering cash.

In my area there are multiple Chrysler 300Cs that are "available" to rent for $600/day.

Except they're not available. They're actively being rented for weeks on end.

Would be a great plan if you were a dealer. Have one of your customers rent your car for $600/day (no legit customer will pay that for a 300C), and you launder cash. Best part is you don't even need to actually rent out your car - they're not going to complain that they didn't get a car, because they never needed it.

I rented a Tesla on Turo a few years ago, it was a blast to drive.

It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend renting one.

Just don’t try to rollback the odometer.

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