Sixt Shrinks its Electric Car Fleet on Disappointing Demand

Sixt SE has cut the number of electric cars as customers prefer to rent vehicles with a combustion engine, in line with reductions by competitor Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

“We direct our share of EVs according to consumer demand and can very quickly react to demand changes,” Europe’s biggest rental car operator said Wednesday. Last year, Sixt had just under 10,000 battery-powered cars in its fleet of nearly 170,000 vehicles.