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Here's your daily crunch. Hurtz has agreed to buy up to 65,000 Polestar

Electric vehicles over five years. The deal will help the rental giant electrify its fleet and give

the EV automaker access to a wider market, including corporate customers and ride-hailing drivers.

Hurts, which went through a reorganization after filing for bankruptcy protection

in May 2020, is aiming to offer more EVs in its global rental fleet for consumers,

as well as corporate fleets, and to ride hailing drivers.

Hurts's EV goals kicked off in October when it announced plans to buy 100,000 Tesla

vehicles for a reported 4.2 billion dollars. Hurts also announced plans to install thousands of chargers throughout its network to support the increase in

EVs.

Shortly after the announcement, Uber said it would rent up to half of that order for its drivers.

Up next, Roku and Amazon have reached a multi-year extension of their distribution agreement

for Amazon Prime Video and IMDb apps on Roku devices. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

However, Roku users will be happy to know they can still access the free add-on channel

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