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Uber wants a 50% electric fleet paid for by its drivers and customers by 2025
The Californian company wants 50% of the cars on its platform to be electric, and 50% hybrid, by 2025. It hopes to phase out diesel entirely in 2024. The drivers will partly finance the operator’s decision. Renault and Nissan have signed letter of intent with Uber
Zero diesel in 2024, and 50% electric in 2025: Uber’s latest objectives, concocted through confinement, are ambitious. The car reservation and meal delivery platform wants to green its fleet on a global scale. In France, “this represents 15,000 cars that will go electric in 2025”, announces Laureline Serieys, general manager of Uber France. The platform wants to sanctuary an envelope of 75 million euros in France, and 680 million euros in the world.
Concretely: “From January 1, 2021, we will no longer accept new diesel vehicles on the application” decrypts the general manager. “In January 2022, it will be impossible to register a diesel vehicle, regardless of its age. And in January 2024, we will remove the residual, ”ie diesel vehicles already registered.
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In May, the platform sold its fleet of Jump electric bicycles, tightening its activity around the car – and at the same time lost its green veil. This last initiative must green its coat of arms. It is therefore the former boss of Jump, who became general manager for France this summer, who will bring this inflection to a national scale.
“The mobility sector, and more particularly VTCs, must take measures in favor of electrification as of today and work in concert with public and private actors. We have a strong responsibility to accelerate the transition to green mobility ”, estimates Laureline Serieys.
What do such impulses mean for drivers and Uber users?
