The rental market has always favoured the cheapest to buy models because renters simply don't value fuel economy, durability, reliability etc etc .
During the 80s when Budget kicked off some of the low volume models such as Volvo cut the price dramatically to get in there for promotional purposes and part of the parcel was a sweetheart Operating Least-fully maintained-buy back 2 year package . This also kicked off the "Quality Used Car" program,......2 year old cars with 40,000 Ks.
This kind of package sets depreciation and operating costs with exception of rego, insurance , tyres and panel/paint damage .
The average individual punter doesn't know what the cost of ownership and , IMO, doesn't want to .
But back to EVs, I have seen heaps of BYDs recently including some on Uber!
