If you live in California, you may travel more Uber and Lyft in electric vehicles in the coming years. The state clean air agency is ready to mandate that almost all vehicles used by drivers working for vehicle transport companies be electric by 2030.
proposal from the California Air Resources Board, announced at the end of last month and set for next month, will slow down the mileage standards for road transport companies, imposing a certain number of kilometers traveled annually with electric vehicles. The requirements would start by asking 2% of all annual thousands traveled Ridesharing carriers will be in electric vehicles in 2023, rising to 30% in 2026, then to 50% by 2027 and reaching 90% by 2030. This is an increase over last year When CARB considered it mandatory that 60% of travel miles traveled to be electric by 2030.
CARB found that in 2018, rideshare vehicles such as Uber and Lyft accounted for 1% of total state emissions from road passenger vehicles that year. It may not seem like much, but the cars are pretty big in California. Pfreight vehicles are a huge one third of the state’s total emissions, before other seas emission sectors such as animals and electrical installations. The measure to regulate the emissions of rideshare transport is only part of a greater impetus from the state to gain control over the emissions of its vehicle. Into the September, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order for all vehicles sold in the state to be electric by 2035, which is estimated to reduce total state emissions by 35%. Pretty big moves!
While ridesharing companies have had in the past promoted carpooling options provided by services such as Uber Pool as an environmentally friendly option, a study conducted last year by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that Uber and Lyft trips created almost 70% more emissions than the rides they traveled. Tstudy the calculated A solo trip in a travel car created on average 50% more emissions than if the person had just used his own car, largely due to the rideshare vehicle traveling before and after the passengerless journey. Meanwhile, those pool walks that ridesharing companies have said are more environmentally friendly options, which actually generate the same amount of emissions as a normal car ride. And with the pandemic temporarily shutting down pooling options, it’s likely when people use Uber or Lyft the most will not opt for group rides in the near future – which means we are even more likely to take those high-emission solo rides.
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Maybe you feel the future revolution of electric vehicles – and maybe also a chance for a good PR, given a few hard years press less than flattering“Uber and Lyft made electricity.” own promises. Bother companies he said last year all walks across the country by 2030 would be 100% electric. But Lyft also has claimed to be carbon neutral because they buy offsets and both have fought with other regulations.
Another thing that regulators need to keep in mind, especially considering history of cutting corners and mistreating DRIVER, is how these companies choose to launch their new electric vehicle fleets, especially how it stimulates drivers – and if he will do it correctly. The CARB report acknowledges that the agency “[does] I don’t know exactly the TNC strategies [transportation network companies] nor will it use how TNC business models might evolve in the future.”
But the agency said he hoped lower targets in the early years would help companies help drivers, especially in lower-income areas, buy electric vehicles. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Green reported last month that Uber was the lack of payments he had promised to drivers as incentives for switching to electric vehicles. As we have seen from ridesharing transport companies, making promises is easy – keep those difficult promises.