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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Monday, March 25, and we're looking at Hertz vs. Enterprise.
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1:06.2 | Long, long ago, in 2021, a major player in the rental car space made a major bet. Hertz said it would |
1:14.5 | buy 100,000 Teslas in an effort to expand its EV lineup. The news came just months after a roughly |
1:21.5 | $4 billion restructuring plan saved the company from bankruptcy, according to automotive news. |
1:27.4 | And investors loved this new |
1:29.8 | plan, which sent the brand stock price up 40% over two weeks. But alas, the idea may have been more |
1:37.2 | pie in the sky than done deal. Hertz did move forward with purchasing tens of thousands of |
1:42.8 | Teslas, which it's now selling off. |
1:45.9 | Lower demand from drivers, plus expensive repairs as a result of some of those drivers, |
1:51.0 | brought Hertz's plans for EV rental domination skidding to a halt. |
1:55.5 | The chain has been forced to sell many of those Teslas at very low prices. |
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