Uber has abandoned its pledge to operate an all-electric fleet across major UK, US and European cities by 2030, after its chief executive warned that drivers, consumers and governments are turning away from electric vehicles.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s long-standing commitment to switch to a fully electric fleet by the end of the decade was “just not going to happen”.
It marks the first time Uber has publicly conceded that it will miss the target, which was set in 2020 and closely aligned with Labour’s wider ambitions to accelerate the transition away from petrol and diesel vehicles.
“Our EV target of being all-electric by 2030, that’s just not going to happen based on everything that’s happening in society,” Khosrowshahi said. He added that while Uber would continue to increase the proportion of electric vehicles on its platform, external conditions had made the original pledge unrealistic.
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