ScottBev

My second hand experience is not from Hertz, but another rental company.

The company bought a mixture of Teslas and misc. other EVs. In addition, they ignored installing any charging infrastructure at their smaller locations. The EV can't be rented below 80%, and the operator does not have the ability to charge the EV onsite. This takes the EV out of the fleet until either the company sends a driver to pick up the EV or the local operator takes the car somewhere to charge it. The location that I am very familiar with just let most returned EVs just sat unused.

At one point this local operator had 10 EVs waiting to be charged. Eventually the company sent a driver to pick most of them up.

This isn't the only problem with rental EVs, but the lack of forethought in deployment cost this rental company a fortune.

Heavy push to go from WFH to in office in the last six months.

Decrease in productivity in the last six months.

It must be all the remote workers!

Ignore the return to office push, inflation, burnout, and every other possible factor.

Unfortunately, it is a matter of deterrence.

A C&D will not get anyone's attention, outside of the recipient.

Someone being charged with a felony carrying up to 5 years in jail, will hopefully deter some of the con artists from coming in after a storm. The hordes of "helpers" that come into the state after a storm is ridiculously large. Any deterrence is a good thing.

So the ED visits increased by nine times, but what about usage and availability? Did they scale at the same rate?

There still needs to be a look at the packaging, safety systems, etc., but ignoring the scaling of usage and availability skews the number.

A determined individual can remove epoxy without damaging the electronics.

Depends on what they accomplish during their tenure.

I've seen non-founder CEOs take a $100M business to $4B, and others take a $4B to $500M. $100M to $4B deserves the reward.

I have a MYSQL and MSSQL background. I never understood everyone's fear of using CLOB/BLOB data types. Then I started working Oracle.

Its required by US law

Part of helping underserved communities would be to move some of the business outside the Valley and major metro areas. Find the mid to small cities and spread the wealth.

The cost to setup a process and maintain it according to FDA requirements.

The market size is likely just under the cost to establish the manufacturing capacity for the US market.

So true. We allocate lots of money to education. Just it goes to administrative, consulting and testing expenses, rather than to improving the education provided.

I like the idea behind the Swedish system, but then I think about what would happen in the US. Wal-Mart would get the exclusive contract for services. After that you would be happy to actually receive a package, most likely not your package.

I hate Wal-Mart a lot more then the delivery services.

Also, the $6-8 million given to the University is after the UAA pays for all of the expenses of the non revenue producing sports teams.

Affiliated? Yes. Two separate entities though. They do not receive any funding from the University. In fact the UAA has made a profit consistently for quite a while and has returned $6-8 million/year to the University.

So, yes the UAA gives ridiculous amounts of money to coaches, but they are making a decent ROI.