New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that Uber and Lyft service cars in the city will have to be completely zero-emission by 2030. The decision is expected to affect the 100,000 cars that currently provide transportation services in New York City. While New York is just starting to talk about this, in California a decision has already been made that from 2030 all public cars must be electric.
The mayor also announced that a charging infrastructure will be built in the city, which will allow these cars to be supplied with electricity. Interestingly, Lyft and Uber are not trying to oppose this decision and promise to comply with it. Although there is still a lot of time until 2030, both companies are already trying to switch to more ecological cars. We already announced that Uber, together with several car manufacturers, plans to develop electric cars for ride-sharing and in cooperation with Hertz already offers service drivers an electric car. Another type of motivation is the higher profit potential from trips if an electric car is used. Both Uber and Lyft plan to go fully electric by 2030.
It already sounds very nice, but since in some cases the shared car is the private car of a driver, I don’t think that the transition to an electric car will be easy and quick. However, at least at the moment, they are much more expensive than “normal” cars. It is to be hoped that in this sense the situation will improve as the year 2030 approaches.
