Electric Car Rentals and Shares Gain Momentum With Business Travelers

Whether hiring or hailing, electric vehicles are growing in popularity with travelers as business trips pick back up.

There's mounting pressure on company travel managers to hit carbon cutting targets, and these vehicles are set to play a key role. Agencies and travel technology platforms are responding too, with new partnerships and integrations, but a limited supply of the vehicles could stall their electric dreams.

Hertz’s decision to buy 100,000 Teslas at the end of October last year is the biggest signpost that electric cars are going mainstream. That order means it will offer the largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America, and one of the largest in the world, it claimed, if the cars are delivered by the end of 2022. Some 20 percent of Hertz’s global fleet would also comprise electric cars.

More importantly, half of those cars will be offered to Uber — and potentially triple that over the next three years if the partnership is a