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Hertz Will Soon Add Cadillac Lyriq, Chevy Silverado EV To Its EV Rental Fleet: Video

As the broader automotive industry makes the transition to all-electric vehicles, car rental companies like Hertz are going along for the ride. Now, Hertz says it’s poised to offer customers the Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover and Chevy Silverado EV pickup as part of its all-electric rental fleet in the near future. The announcement included a video featuring a drive-along between Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr and GM CEO Mary Barra.

Although Hertz declined to provide an exact date as to when the Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover and Chevy Silverado EV pickup will be available to Hertz customers, the video includes some fine print which indicates the Chevy Silverado EV 4WT will be added to the rental lineup around the 2023 to 2024 timeframe. The Chevy Silverado EV RST will follow at a later date.

As GM Authority covered late last year, Hertz is poised to order 175,000 new electric vehicles from GM over the course of about five years, through the 2027 calendar year. The vehicles will come from GM’s Chevy, Cadillac, Buick, GMC, and BrightDrop brands.

In a new video, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr climbs behind the wheel of the Cadillac Lyriq to give a ride to GM CEO Mary Barra. Together, the two executives discuss the auto industry’s transition to all-electric powertrains.

“With electric vehicles, sort of in your view, are we there yet?” Scherr asks Barra. “In other words, are we at the spot that we need to be, kind of as an industry, as a country, around electric vehicles?”

“I like to say we’re in the first turn of the first lap,” Barra responds. “There is so much more to come with EVs. I’m super excited about the opportunity for people to have their first EV experience with Hertz, especially in a GM vehicle.”

Check out the full video here:

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  1. How many renters would go for an EV without experience with one?

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    1. I use Turo for Tesla rentals when I travel, until NACS is in place on the ~25 BEVs GM will have at Hertz, I would not rent one unless where I am staying has a Level 2 charger.

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    2. I am not sure that Mary knows what ramp up means.Waiting forever for the Lyriq with no transparency from her company. NONE.

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  2. I have rented a couple of Teslas from Hertz, one in Germany and one in California just to get some experience with them. It really did open my eyes as to how good they actually are and how well the infrastructure works in both places especially when compared to the other charging infrastructure that we are funding. I appreciate Hertz making them available but I’m not sure I would rent a GM product until they get the Tesla connector on them. We need to focus and move forward.

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  3. There are thousands of customers who have pre-ordered Lyriq vehicles from Cadillac as long as a year and a half ago, including yours truly. We certainly hope that resources needed to build our vehicles won’t be diverted to fleet orders.

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    1. That’s the core issue.
      Loyal customers are nurtured over time, not born.
      No better way to destroy that than to do this…

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    2. Ask your dealer. My dealer (covert caddy) shows 9 or 10 IN STOCK. I am pretty sure they really are in stock as they have been shown as on the lot for about a month. They have a couple more showing in transit, so those could be “sold”.

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    3. Have you contacted your Dealer, the Lyriq is ramping up as the battery packs become available and there are a lot of packs being assembled each day. What color and model did you order?

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    4. I’m in the same situation and was thinking the very same thing. It’s been over a year for me, too. Now the dealer tells me my wanting a luxury 3 level is stalling the process. Just bad business.

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  4. im definitely renting for a day just to see. i dont have a charger, i have no idea what im doing but i will drive one around the block for a day for the memes.

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  5. Hey that’s cool, I work at hertz and would love to see the lyriq and Silverado come in.

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  6. Good luck getting the smaller airports and rental car locations to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars for chargers.

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  7. So they’re dumping them on Hertz, because… why? Dumping unwanted vehicles into fleets is an OLD trick.

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    1. OCNBLU:

      In my area (poor Buffalo, New York), the HERTZ stores have ZERO recharging facilities. 4 out of 5 Rentals are battery electric vehicles – or I am assuming they are since 80% of the vehicles for RENT are electric…. The cheapest to rent currently is the Tesla Model 3 – and the stores typically have NONE of them for rent as they are all rented out already.

      See my comment below for detail.

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  8. Just another disaster waiting in the wings for Hertz.

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  9. WHY? More virtue signaling?

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  10. Most rental car drivers are too stupid to understand how to do simple things like turn on the headlights at night because their rental didn’t have auto headlights…how are they going to handle a totally new way of fueling up a car? I’m popping the popcorn as we speak…

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    1. Very true, I see cars on the interstate every morning in the dark without their headlights on. The front markers are on but no headlights or taillights and they don’t even realize it. Some people are just too ignorant to drive.

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      1. What I really don’t understand is how the headlights don’t default to auto on, I’ve barely touched a headlight switch on any of my GM cars since the late 90’s and I’ve never been caught driving without any lights on, yet I see all these other brands of cars from so called “superior, smarter, better etc etc etc” car companies driving around without lights on.

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  11. Hertz has an interesting game plan – at least as far as Western New York is concerned.

    The retail stores (rental offices) have NO recharging facilities, BUT the cars come equipped with J1772 (used to be considered ‘Industry Standard’ connectors so that they can charge at home using their own facilities or at public level 1 or 2 locations, and 120 volt ‘occasional use’ charging cords – for 1300 watt charging at home, OR to be used at the HERTZ store by throwing a 110 extension cord out the back door, should a customer return the vehicle with less than 1% State of charge (1 or 2 miles left).

    They bill the renter for returning the car with LESS state of charge than the rental started out with…. The beauty here is that since customers in general don’t want any return fines, they return the vehicles with the same or MORE juice in them than when they rented it.

    Someone at Hertz used their heads….. Just as there is no gasoline sold at a Hertz store, no electricity is sold either – other than in an emergency – and of course those customers pay a fine since the recharging convenience costs the customer just as a gasoline customer pays a huge premium to have Hertz buy the gas.

    Hertz gets pure profit when a vehicle is rented out at 70% full battery, and returned at 30 % full battery, since HERTZ bills for the 40% missing.. But then they don’t bother charging the car AT ALL and just rent it to the next customer at 30% ! That is pure profit with zero effort.

    In Poor Buffalo, the Hertz store by the airport has about 4 out of 5 vehicles as full electrics…. In this case, Teslas so far… The surprising popularity is no doubt by curious people wanting to dip their toes into an electric vehicle for the first time. And they get experience charging at home using a 110 volt outlet with or without an extension cord to make it work.

    Most people probably just charge publicly at the shopping center and/or Tesla Supercharger – and since the car is ‘identified’ the bill to HERTZ gets immediately added to the renter’s credit card.

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  12. Selling to Hertz before you can fill existing customers orders is a bad idea.

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  13. I have not seen any 2024 Luxury 2 (or Sport 2) trims for sale. Is there something that is on constraint preventing production?

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