Hertz wants to rent up to 50,000 Tesla vehicles to Uber drivers

One went extremely early in the week interesting message through Western reporting: The car rental company Hertz ordered 100,000 vehicles from Tesla, the largest order volume for electric vehicles that has ever existed. Hertz is having the order cost 4.2 billion euros, a total of 1/10 of the capacity that Tesla can produce each year. A large part of the vehicles is probably not even rented to customers.

A new report suggests that Hertz will rent almost half of all vehicles exclusively to Uber drivers. Certain groups of drivers can rent the model from November 1st, which requires a driver rating of 4.7 stars and at least 150 completed journeys.

It will start in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington DC, with drivers renting around $ 300 per week, including insurance and maintenance. With this, Uber primarily achieves two goals.

On the one hand, the quota of trips that are fully electrified is increasing, so the new program is a gain for the agent’s environmental balance sheet. It shouldn’t come as a surprise if the marketing team uses this advantage in their favor.

Furthermore, the Tesla models bring many advantages for the driver. On the one hand, the running costs are reduced, the “fuel” is cheaper and the vehicles are comparatively cheap, on the other hand, drivers who drive an electric vehicle receive a bonus on their normal income.

So another step has been taken for Uber on the road to climate neutrality by 2040. In the future, the program should also be available to other drivers who do not live in the initial areas. It is unclear whether and when such a program will also be rolled out in the European Union. But it should also benefit Uber’s climate targets in this country if more electric vehicles are used for journeys.

Via Engadget