{"id":9092,"date":"2021-10-27T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/auto\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:05:37","slug":"1133995_uber-drivers-rent-50000-teslas-hertz-at-299-a-month-insured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=9092","title":{"rendered":"Uber drivers will be able to rent 50,000 Teslas through Hertz at $299 a month, insured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Elon Musk\u2019s fleet of Tesla robotaxis<\/a> is long overdue, an agreement among two transportation giants will make it much more likely your Uber driver will be piloting a Tesla.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Uber announced on Wednesday that it plans to make up to 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to Uber drivers to rent for use on the company\u2019s network. The program starts November 1 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., with a nationwide expansion due \u201cin the following weeks,\u201d according to Uber.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The announcement comes just two days after Hertz announced plans to purchase 100,000 Tesla Model 3 sedans<\/a> by the end of 2022, and the 50,000 allotted for the Uber program are included in that initial total. Hertz however says that if successful, the Uber program itself could triple, to 150,000 Teslas over the next three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tesla<\/p>\n

Tesla at Hertz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Through the program, the Tesla Model 3 will rent at $334 a week at first, with prices settling to $299 or lower. Both maintenance and insurance are included, and initially Hertz is requiring that drivers have at least a 4.7-star rating and at least 150 trips completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The agreement allows access to the Supercharger network and discounts on EVgo, which offers Tesla connectors at some of its urban locations. The Teslas are also covered by Uber\u2019s incentive program chipping in $1 more per trip, up to $4,000 annually, so that drivers might switch to EVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The companies cite a recent survey of 6,000 Uber drivers of internal-combustion models, suggesting that 47% want to go fully electric in a next vehicle.<\/p>\n

The deal might also be necessary to appease regulators in California and elsewhere. California in May approved new rules drafted by its Air Resources Board requiring ride-hailing companies to shift to fully electric vehicles<\/a>, ramping up electrification in 2023, with 90% of its vehicle miles electric by 2030. That puts pressure on Uber and Lyft to incentivize its drivers, who own or rent their own vehicles, to switch to EVs at an increasingly large scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JuiceBox<\/p>\n

JuiceBox connected chargers and Uber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Putting tens of thousands of EVs into ride-hailing use should go a long way toward CARB\u2019s emissions-motivated goals. According to a 2019 report from Uber and Lyft, so-called \u201cdeadhead miles\u201d<\/a>\u2014the distance that a driver covers alone, to or from other trips, added up to about 40% of all mileage in a range of big cities. That boosted fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by about 20%. A more recent study additionally found increased social costs from ride-hailing<\/a> including traffic congestion, crashes, and noise\u2014something driving Teslas instead of tailpipe vehicles might not entirely fix.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So far the Tesla deal appears to only be for the U.S. It\u2019s not clear how this large-scale deal for Teslas affects the \u201cstrategic relationship\u201d between Uber and Arrival, under which Arrival was potentially due to develop an electric vehicle for Uber use<\/a> in the UK and EU. We\u2019ve reached out to Arrival.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Elon Musk\u2019s fleet of Tesla robotaxis is long overdue, an agreement among two transportation giants will make it much more likely your Uber driver will be piloting a Tesla.\u00a0 Uber announced on Wednesday that it plans to make up to 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to Uber drivers to rent for use on the company\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}