Swedish electrical automobile maker Polestar will provide as much as 65,000 autos to car-rental big Hertz Global over the following 5 years, the 2 corporations announced Monday morning.

Hertz will start making totally electrical Polestar 2s obtainable by way of its community in Europe this spring, and in North America and Australia earlier than the top of 2022.

Polestar’s CEO stated that the deal is a boon for the EV startup for causes that transcend the income it’s going to understand from the gross sales.

“The partnership [with Hertz] will carry the wonderful expertise of driving an electrical automobile to a wider viewers” of Hertz prospects, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath stated. “For a lot of of them it might be the primary time they’ve pushed an EV, and will probably be a Polestar.”

Polestar bought 29,000 autos final yr. The corporate expects its gross sales tempo to succeed in 290,000 autos per yr by the top of 2025.

For Hertz, the deal is a big step ahead in its plan to construct the most important fleet of rental EVs in North America, and one of many largest on the planet.

Polestar was shaped in 2017 as a three way partnership between Volvo Automobiles and its company dad or mum, Chinese language automaker Geely. The corporate is planning to go public by the top of the second quarter by way of a merger with special-purpose acquisition firm Gores Guggenheim.