NEW YORK – Uber offers incentives for drivers to transfer to cleaner cars, while acknowledging that their travel emissions have increased in recent years.
The San Francisco-based racing giant said Tuesday that a trip in one of his cars remained four1% larger in car bonds than a non-public car with others. Uber studied four billion trips it provided from 2017 to 2019 and found that while the number of passengers is higher by up to 36. 6%, the average intensity of car vouchers on travel decreased by 6%, meaning trips adjusted more efficiently. But the company admitted that its car footprint is higher as the number of passengers increases.
“We can do much better,” said Shin-pei Tsay, Uber’s director of policy, cities and transportation. “Reducing carbon intensity and reducing emissions is at your fingertips. “
Many others have avoided travel in shared cars due to the pandemic: gross bookings for Uber’s mobility business fell by 73% in this quarter and Lyft’s active passenger numbers fell by 60% compared to the same time last year.
But either corporation expects a imaginable return. Uber said all trips will be made in electric cars through 2030 in the United States, Canada and Europe, and plans to be a fully zero-emissions platform until 2040, which, on the commercial point, would possibly involve the acquisition of carbon offsets. . Lyft, operating in the United States and Canada, said in June that his travels would be one hundred percent electric until 2030.
One of the main barriers to converting to electric cars is cost. To help drivers make the switch, Uber drivers will earn an additional 50 cents based on travel in hybrid cars and an additional $ 1. 50 for fully electric cars in more than 15 cities across the United States. States and Canada. Some of this additional money will come from riders who will pay an additional $ 1 to choose an “Uber Green” in an electric or hybrid vehicle.
General Motors is partnering with Uber to provide services to Uber drivers, providing them between $ 2,400 and $ 2,750 towards the purchase of a Chevrolet Bolt vehicle and 20% in vehicle charging equipment. Bolt’s starting value is roughly $ 37,000. Uber has also negotiated with other corporations ranging from 10% to 50% off for their drivers to rate electric cars at other locations.
In total, Uber plans to spend $800 million on systems for thousands of drivers to transfer to electric cars until 2025.
“The call to transport is developing faster than anything else and we haven’t done enough as a network to eliminate it, to our carbon,” Tsay said.
While Uber’s dedication states that it will work with drivers to make the transition more cost-effective and successful for them, “we know that we ease tension to make this dedication a truth that benefits drivers,” Rebekah Whilden said. representative of the Sierra Club’s Clean Transport for All crusade. “We want all the hands of corporations to combat pollution, combat the climate crisis and devote themselves to fair labor standards. “
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