Renting EV for round island 8 day trip - my experience this month

Thought I'd share my experience

1. rented from Zero Car - booked around 6 months ahead and got a 12% off code
2. paid the equivalent of USD110 per day for a Kia EV6
3. when I checked in online 1 week before the trip, the system showed a Kia EV3 instead
4. that's a smaller car, so I emailed them to ask about it. They explained that the EV6 was phased out, and the EV3 is not a smaller car. Not super convincing, but they offered to refund my additional driver fee, so I accepted
5. when we arrived to pick up the car, we got a Tesla Model Y dual motor instead. Not complaining obviously
6. Nice car to drive - I was surprised that the seats were really comfortable for me. I've got a bad back, but was able to drive 2+ hours a stretch without much discomfort. Had to get used to having to do everything via the screen. Autopilot did not always work v well on Icelandic roads
7. with some planning, it was not difficult to charge the car without wasting much time, stressing about running out of juice, etc.
8. fastest charging was at the Tesla superchargers, but we could only use it once. After we used it, the system in the car said that there were unpaid charging amounts for the car, so all subsequent attempts to use the superchargers failed. I contacted Zero, and they said they knew about the issue and were trying to resolve it
9. most common charger company for us was *On*. 69Kr per KwH. Was a bit erratic sometimes in terms of the charging speeds
10. learning point: we were not able to use the 22KwH chargers as the car did not come with a cable for those
11. Easiest charger company to use was *Isorka*, in terms of plugging in and starting to charge the quickest
12. Also used Instavolt (cost more, but pretty fast) and EOne (app didn't work on my phone, but did on my partner's)
13. There were less EVs on the road in Iceland than I expected, so there were only 2 occasions when the charger was used by someone else when we tied to use it (we did look up charger availability beforehand). There was once when On (the company) would email me to ask that I end charging (batt was 95%) so someone else who was waiting could use the charger.
14. Overall, I'm not sure I actually saved much (if at all) versus total cost of a petrol cost, but it was a pleasant drive. Will get a petrol car the next trip.