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Delivery is one thing. There are several others, but I'm dusting off ancient knowledge that may still apply. The largest firms tend to do their own delivery prep, warranty service, licensing, repair work, including collision and also have active resale operations. Depending on the countries involved those practices do vary.No, I didn't see this coming, other than in the generalized "world domination" way. But I can't say that it hertz.
There has been one poster - @mongo - mentioning that the seeming discount at $42K might be at least in part were Hertz to handle the transport. That makes more sense than at first glance: Hertz has an enormous fleet of car haulers - probably the largest there is outside companies whose only business is such.
On edit: so far I've not been able to locate specifics on fleet sizes, but the largest car hauler specialists I've been able to find seem to be moving on the order of 120,000 vehicles per year - that would put Hertz in the same league. I did also see reference, though to hertz also using outside haulers - a specific instance was when, in truly short-sighted, business-crumbling fashion, Hertz & Enterprise moved 30,000 of their fleets out of Florida to Atlanta Motor Speedway in reaction to the pandemic.
For this one the charging infrastructure probably has a substantial amount of airport parking for privately owned vehicles, although the parking arrangements vary dramatically by location. There will be some serious experimentation by the new Hertz owners, including extended test drives, provision of Tesla service loaner cars and more.
An unconfirmed rumor passed to me from a colleague in France suggest that Sixt may be working on a deal also. traditionally Sixt has been quite German manufacturer oriented, but that has been changing as Sixt extends it's reach. He also claims there si great interest in building BEV car rental throughout the Mediterranean islands and coastal areas. He further claims that Morocco, Sicily and Corsica are all about to have substantial BEV fleets, with Tesla in the running for all of them. If true that is likely to, according to him, have everything from Zoe, Fiat 500e to Tesla.
That last paragraph does sound plausible not least because Tesla already has Superchargers operational in Sardinia, Sicily and Morocco and pretty much overs the mainland Europe coastal tourist areas. The quickest and easiest way for Tesla to achieve scale in those areas will be through the rental firms. Until many fo them failed during the pandemic, there has been restructuring with fleet selloff almost worldwide. Thus fleet rebuild now will tend towards BEV's due to cost structures and also availability.
Until today I never expected this to be a major deal for Tesla anytime soon. Now the world has turned upside down. I thought my French friend was delusional. Now I think he was just prescient.