A 2030 target for electric vehicles to dominate ride-hailing is a lofty goal. But it’s the drivers, not the companies, who may have to foot the bill.
, live in apartment buildings, or rely on off-street parking, installing charging stations so they can charge overnight is costly, complicated, and in some cases simply impossible. These drivers must depend on sometimes patchy, sometimes expensive networks of public charging stations, where it can take anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes to recharge. And if they damage their cars, they have to rely on a still underdeveloped repair and parts industry for EVs.
Ets-Hokin, the EV evangelist, who also writes about ride-hailing for the driver-focused blog The RideShare Guy, doesn’t either. “It’s just a constant parade of lies from these guys,” he says of the companies. Two years on, he says, he hasn’t seen either do enough in the way of promoting electric vehicles.
Uber says it will spend $800 million by 2025 to help drivers transition to EVs. One program pays drivers an extra $1 per fare they pick up in a plug-in or battery-electric vehicle. In some cities it offers another program, called Green, that allows riders to pay extra to take an electrified ride. Uber says it currently has almost 6,000 drivers in zero-emission vehicles on its app worldwide, though the majority of those are in the UK.
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