Uber outlines plans to electrify its rides and reduce emissions across its mobility platforms by 2025. It discusses partnerships and programs in various cities around the world since 2016 to promote electric vehicles and increase the number of electric vehicle trips by Uber drivers. It acknowledges challenges to greater electric vehicle adoption such as upfront costs, lack of infrastructure, and policies not supportive of high-utilization electric vehicles. Uber sees opportunities to work with cities and partners to address these challenges and fully electrify rides in London by 2025 for increased emissions savings and grid benefits.
6. Our electric ride, so far...
2016
UberGreen - push a
button, ride in an EV -
launches in Lisbon,
Portugal
2018
US EV Champions
● 1k active BEVs
● 2k active PHEVs
● 9 cities
● 9 partners
● >6M EV trips
2017
Energy Savings Trust
report on Uber’s EV
pilot in London
● 60 EVs
● 100 drivers
● 35,000 riders
● 200,000 miles
2019
£200M London Clean
Air Plan launched aid
drivers’ access EVs
Since Jan 2019:
● £100M raised
● 1.3M BEV trips
8. Low adoption
Affordability and worse-off
economics
Lack of suitable infrastructure
Historic barriers to access for
lower income drivers
Lack of supportive policies for
high utilization EVs
Addressing needs of majority,
casual peer-to-peer drivers
Challenges
5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) average cost per mile
for “full-time” ride-hailing EV drivers (US) - for new longer-
range, 250-mile, EVs - expected to reach parity with new
hybrid drivers by 2023 (ICCT, 2019)
9. Opportunities
Fully Electric in
London by 2025
100%
Consumer exposure
EV & infrastructure utilization
3x emissions savings
Grid benefits
Low income driver support
Shift policy unit of analysis:
EVs to e-PMT
Policy + product innovation
Expansion of electric mobility
consumer options