INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Uber is launching a new pilot program to encourage the uptake of electric vehicles across its US fleet, according to a recent blog post by
rides, so they'll have to choose to make the switch to electric themselves rather than simply receive a new company car.The program builds
on smaller pilots in Pittsburgh and Portland, now expanding to all EV drivers operating in seven selected US cities: Austin, Los Angeles,
with 60% of its vehicles in London already hybrid or fully electric, and the hope that this will extend to the whole fleet by 2020.Even if
US drivers find the greener technology appealing, it takes significantly longer to charge a car battery than it does to fill up a fuel tank,
