Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) recently introduced the RENT Act of 2024, a bill to disallow covered rental car companies to rent electric vehicles (EVs) without first obtaining affirmative consent from their customers. Absent such consent, a covered company would need to notify customers if it “believes that it is more likely than not that the only motor vehicles available to rent are electric motor vehicles” (excluding last-minute rentals). If the rental company has only EVs available when the customer arrives for the rental, the bill proposes to guarantee that customers may break their rental reservations at no cost.
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