{"id":24333,"date":"2022-06-11T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=24333"},"modified":"2022-06-11T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:03:59","slug":"polestar-2-hertz-rental-ev-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=24333","title":{"rendered":"Polestar begins delivering 65,000 rental vehicles for Hertz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hertz customers in select cities nationwide will soon have the opportunity to rent a Polestar 2<\/a>. The EV automaker announced Thursday<\/a> that it has delivered the first batch of some 65,000 vehicles to the rental corporation as part of a deal struck between the two in April<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur partnership with Hertz is an exciting milestone that provides the opportunity for a significant number of potential new customers to experience an EV for the first time, and it will be in a Polestar<\/a>,\u201d Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO, said in a prepared statement. \u201cWith over 55,000 Polestar cars already on the road across our 25 live markets there is no doubt that our brand is growing at an incredible pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polestar is quick to point out that this deal is one of the largest single EV purchases in history, a not so subtle dig at rival Tesla<\/a> which, last October, supposedly had its own deal with Hertz<\/a> for a whopping 100,000 Model 3s. However, that agreement failed to get beyond Hertz’ press release as Tesla CEO Elon Musk subsequently tweeted<\/a> that “no contract has been signed yet” and the whole deal fizzled from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to the Polestar 2s, Hertz will also be acquiring a select number of Polestar 1s, giving its customers a hybrid<\/a> option to choose from as well. As a Polestar rep told Engadget<\/a>, the metro areas of “Seattle, LA, Burbank and Orange County CA, San Diego, Phoenix\/Scottsdale, Miami, Islip NY, and Newark NJ” will all be among the first to receive the new EVs.<\/p>\n

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