I’ll tell you something: Up until about two weeks ago, when I went to the Best Buy parking lot to buy something that I bought that afternoon from an online retailer, I wasn’t completely blown away. convinced that Polestar actually makes cars for everyone to buy. Oh sure; you can Driver them, if you’re a journalist with the right connections (not that I oriented them). But I had never actually seen a Polestar in the flesh, despite being repeatedly told they were certainly the real thing for both years before that.
Well, we all can get used to seeing lots of Polestars around, as electric-car maker Volvo-spinoff says it has begun delivering vehicles to Hertz, start order 65,000 pcs expected to be completed in 2025.
The announcement was made on Thursday, and while the Swedish automaker did not say how many Polestar 2 clearance sedans are in the lot of Hertz, the company was quick to remind us all of Press Release that this marks “one of the largest electric car orders ever made”. Tesla-Hertz deal tooif you expand your definition of “largest order ever fulfilled” to include those that have not yet been fulfilled.
Something else related to this news: In the release statement, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath is quoted as saying that the company has delivered 55,000 cars across the 25 markets it plays in. This order, then, is for 10,000 more Polestars than there are currently in the world.
As it happened, back in January, Ingenlath also confirmed Automotive News that he wants to sell a total of 65,000 cars by 2022. How many Hertz cars will count toward that annual goal? I suppose we’ll find out in Polestar’s year-end earnings report. The rental company expects to begin offering Polestars first in “Seattle, LA, Burbank and Orange County, CA, San Diego, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Miami, Islip, NY, and Newark, NJ,” according to friends. our at Engadget.
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As part of the partnership between the two companies, Hertz will also add some Polestar 1s for its fleet – surprising, since that car was discontinued last year. So neat!
I look forward to one day driving a Polestar; they look good, and honestly, the ability to simply rent one to your liking (although in stock) seems like a convenient way to test out an electric vehicle in your life before doing it. I only ask that Hertz lease cars with color combinations apart from the gray-on-light-gray, the brand seems to like it.
