{"id":46721,"date":"2021-01-25T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=46721"},"modified":"2024-06-04T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:14:07","slug":"evee-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/evee-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Evee: A Website For Renting Other People’s Teslas In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evee is a website that rents out Teslas but does not own any Tesla electric cars…<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Recently I rented a Tesla Model 3 through an online service called Evee.\u00a0 I had a really great time just driving around, sightseeing, and engaging in criminal activity.<\/p>\r\n

You can read about what I got up to in my Tesla Model 3 review here<\/a>, but I thought would be useful to explain what the Evee car hire company is and how you go about using it.\u00a0 I figure there are plenty of people who will want to rent an electric car to give it a go before buying one.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Also, Evee has been bugging me to write a review of the car I rented, so it only seems fair I let this article be a review of my experience with the Evee car hire site.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

What The Hell Is Evee?\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n

Evee<\/a> is an Australian car rental company, but rather than owning a fleet of vehicles like Avis<\/a> or Hertz<\/a>, they instead allow private car owners to rent out their fully electric cars.\u00a0 In return for being a middleman — or middleperson — Evee gets 25% of the rental fee.\u00a0 I have no capacity to judge if that amount is fair.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Here’s what you may see if you go to their site:<\/p>\r\n

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You can be certain they’re Australian because the Sydney Opera house is hiding behind the inset:<\/p>\r\n

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“Are the auditors gone and it’s safe to come out now? I came in at 15 times over budget, you know…”<\/p><\/div>\r\n

But the background picture can change from day to day, so don’t get too attached to whatever comes up on your first visit to the Evee site.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Evee Is Not A Pok\u00e9mon<\/h2>\r\n

I want to make the following very clear — Evee is not a Pocket Monster.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately for the car rental company, an Eevee with an extra “e” is a Pocket Monster or Pok\u00e9mon, as they’re known in English.\u00a0 (In Japan they’re known as Pocket Monsters, so go figure.)\u00a0 If you search for Evee online the Pok\u00e9mon is always the first few thousand entries, so you will instead have to search for “Evee car hire” or something similar.<\/p>\r\n