In European cities, taxi services account for 10% to 20% of motorized traffic, and the majority of cars used for those services are powered by combustion engines. To push the dial from diesel to zero-emission, Uber and Hertz have announced they'll make 25,000 electric vehicles available for rent to Uber drivers in Europe.
The rollout starts this month in London, where Hertz Europe is headquartered, with Amsterdam and Paris to follow soon and other European capitals by 2025. Hertz will deploy a wide range of zero-emission vehicles by various automakers, including Tesla and Polestar.
In 2022, Uber and Hertz kicked off a similar collaboration in North America. To date, nearly 50,000 drivers on Uber's platform have rented a Tesla through the program, completing over 24 million fully-electric trips.
