Tourists need hotels with EV charging stations. It's the rental car company's job to create demand by partnering with hotels to make it easier for tourists to charge than it is hunt for gas stations. Rental car companies siding with fossil fuels is the problem. Tourists demand easy transportation not maximum emissions.

Got a petrol car for €60 for about a week. I did look up the equivalent electric. Maybe it's an issue of supply and demand, but the for the same time it was about €200. Kind of a no brainer from the consumer point of view.

I wonder if some of it is a selection bias in tourists who rent cars in the first place. People more accepting of EVs perhaps are already using public transport or bikes instead, because they don't have an obsession with ICEs.

One reason, maybe the only one, I'd avoid renting an EV abroad would be that hereabouts lots of public chargers need an app and an account to use which is complete BS. I would not want to risk that in a strange country. Gas stations I'd expect to accept cash or credit card.

Of course, knowing the country has sane chargers would completely change that.

It's Iceland, it's still cold AF which affects range, very little infrastructure outside of the capital (no random rest stops with toilets, let alone charging stations), none of the hotels I stayed at had regular power ports near the parking lots let alone charge stations. Why would a tourist rent an EV in Iceland??

I assume a lot of visitors, like myself want a vehicle capable of going on the F roads. They would need something like Rivians for that not teslas.