Hertz and City of Atlanta Launch
Partnership to Expand Electric Vehicle Rentals, EV Charging
Infrastructure and Education and Training Opportunities
ATLANTA, April 19,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz (NASDAQ: HTZ) chair and
CEO Stephen Scherr and Mayor of
Atlanta Andre Dickens launched Hertz Electrifies Atlanta, a
public private partnership aimed at accelerating the adoption of
electric vehicles (EVs) and expanding the environmental and
economic benefits of electrification throughout Atlanta.
As part of the partnership, Hertz aims to bring up to an
additional 4,000 rental EVs to Atlanta – including models from GM, Tesla and
Polestar – for availability to leisure and business customers as
well as rideshare drivers. In partnership with bp, Hertz will
support the installation of up to eight public fast chargers at its
Hertz Uber Rental and EV Charging Location near Hartfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport. In addition, Hertz is partnering
with Atlanta College and Career Academy
(ACCA) to help bring EV education and training opportunities to its
students and making summer job opportunities available through the
city's Summer Youth Employment Program.
"We are thrilled to partner with Mayor Dickens in launching
Hertz Electrifies Atlanta, particularly given the city's
position as a global transportation hub and an important center of
innovation and commerce," said Stephen
Scherr, Hertz chair and CEO. "As Hertz creates the
largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America, we are proud to bring a range
of EVs to our broad customer set in Atlanta, and to work with Atlanta College and Career Academy to help train
the EV workforce of the future."
The initiative aligns with Mayor Dickens's pledge to put
Atlanta on track to meet City of
Atlanta Historic Clean Energy Plan goals to transition to 100%
clean energy by 2035. In addition, Hertz's partnership with
Atlanta College and Career Academy and
participation in the Youth Employment Program underscores the
Mayor's Year of the Youth initiative.
"The City of Atlanta wants 100%
clean energy for 100% of Atlantans by 2035, and public-private
partnerships like the Hertz Electrifies Atlanta initiative will
help us move closer to our goal," said Atlanta Mayor Andre
Dickens. "This initiative will help ensure our students
have access to a high-growth industry and be part of our green
energy future."
Atlanta is home to Hertz's
third largest total fleet and third largest EV fleet in the U.S.,
which will expand significantly through Hertz Electrifies.
Additionally, Atlanta is an
important location for EV rideshare driving, through a partnership
between Hertz and Uber. Nearly 50,000 drivers on the Uber platform
have rented electric vehicles from Hertz through the partnership,
traveling over 260 million miles with zero emissions nationally and
15 million miles with zero emissions in Atlanta. To support its growing rideshare
business in Atlanta, Hertz is
working with bp pulse to support the installation of publicly
accessible EV fast-chargers at the Hertz Uber Rental and EV
Charging Location near Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport.
"At Uber, we believe that climate change is an urgent global
challenge we must all tackle together," said Bob Rupp, Director of Vehicle Operations,
Uber. "Our partnership with Hertz is designed to accelerate the
adoption of EVs across America, including right here in
Atlanta. We're excited to see even
more electric vehicles on the road and look forward to working with
industry partners, like Hertz, to find new, innovative, and
affordable ways to help drivers in Atlanta go electric."
As part of its work with Atlanta
College and Career Academy, Hertz is donating a Chevy Bolt and providing EV educational and
training materials to enable the school to incorporate EV
technology into its auto servicing curriculum.
"Access to hands-on experience with the latest technology is
critical for Atlanta Public
Schools scholars as we prepare them for careers we can't even begin
to imagine," said Atlanta
Public Schools Superintendent Lisa
Herring. "We are very thankful to partner with Hertz to
bring an electric vehicle to our flagship auto servicing program at
Atlanta College and Career Academy and
look forward to working together to ensure students have the skills
they need to succeed in the future."
Atlanta is the third City to
partner with Hertz through Hertz Electrifies, as part of a
multi-city rollout of this national public-private initiative.
About Hertz Electrifies
Hertz
Electrifies is a public-private partnership aimed at
furthering the mainstream adoption of electric vehicles and
extending the benefits of electrification to communities throughout
the United States. Learn more at
www.hertz.com/electrifies
About Hertz
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., operates the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty
vehicle rental brands throughout North
America, Europe, the
Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle
East, Asia, Australia and New
Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest
worldwide vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of
the most recognized globally. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation
operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7 car
sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles
through Hertz Car Sales. For more information about The Hertz
Corporation, visit www.hertz.com. Hertz has tens of thousands of
EVs available at more than 500 Hertz locations across 38
states.
About The City of
Atlanta
For more information about the City of Atlanta, please visit
www.atlantaga.gov or watch City Channel 26. Follow the City of Atlanta on Facebook and Twitter
@CityofAtlanta.
About Uber
Uber's mission is to create opportunity
through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how
do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 37
billion trips later, we're building products to get people closer
to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things
move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to
new possibilities.
About bp
bp's ambition is to become a net zero company
by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. bp has a
larger economic footprint in the United
States than anywhere else in the world, investing more than
$140 billion since 2005 and
supporting about 245,000 jobs. For more information on bp in the
US, visit www.bp.com/US.
About bp pulse
bp pulse is bp's electric vehicle (EV)
charging business, rolling out fast, reliable charge points to
consumers and commercial fleets around the world. Entering into the
Americas, bp pulse focuses on providing EV charging and energy
management to fleets that operate heavy-, medium- and light-duty
vehicles. Key offerings for these fleets include intelligent charge
management software, Omega, and a Charging-as-a-Service
solution–allowing bp pulse to manage the charging of an EV fleet
from start to finish, while optimizing energy costs and vehicle
utilization. Globally, bp pulse is one of the UK's leading rapid
and ultrafast public EV charging networks. It also operates the
largest number of sites with ultra-fast charging in Germany, with a growing charging point
footprint in China and
the Netherlands. The company aims
to increase its network of public EV charging points by 2030 to
over 100,000 worldwide.
About Atlanta Public
Schools
Atlanta Public
Schools is one of the largest school districts in the state of
Georgia, serving approximately
50,000 students across 87 schools and five programs. The District
is organized into nine K-12 clusters
with 64 traditional schools, 19 charter schools, six partner
schools, two alternative schools and five alternative programs. To
learn more about Atlanta Public
Schools, follow us on social media – Twitter (@apsupdate), Facebook
(Atlanta Public Schools), and
Instagram (apsupdate) – or visit us online at
www.atlantapublicschools.us.
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws.
Words such as "aim," "create," "accelerate," "transition,"
"will," "build," "future," "transform," "invest," "shift,"
"launch," "increase," "initiative," "expand," add," and "develop,"
and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which
include but are not limited to statements related to the expansion
of Hertz's EV fleet and its partnership with Uber, installation of
charging infrastructure including in partnership with bp, and any
other statements regarding future expectations, beliefs, plans,
objectives, future events or performance. We caution you that
these statements are not guarantees of future performance and are
subject to numerous evolving risks and uncertainties that we may
not be able to accurately predict or assess, including Hertz's
ability to expand its EV fleet, develop and install sufficient EV
charging infrastructure, and otherwise execute on its strategic
plans, as well as other factors identified in the risk factors of
Hertz's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 23, 2022 and any updates thereto in
subsequent filings with the SEC including in Hertz's Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q. We caution you not to place undue reliance on
our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their date,
and Hertz undertakes no obligation to update this information.
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