The ride-hailing service Uber has agreed to make half its rides electric within five years across seven major European cities. The decision is a victory for the #TrueCostOfUber campaign launched last autumn by eight NGOs. T&E says the next move must be for other cities in Europe to respond by establishing zero-emissions zones along with cycling and walking facilities.
Uber will provide 50% of its rides in emissions-free vehicles across seven European capitals by 2025 and will aim for 100%, it announced today after an 11-month campaign by Transport & Environment and seven NGO partners. The world’s largest mobility platform pledged to clean up its act in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid and Paris in response to the #TrueCostOfUber campaign, which urged it to ditch dirty vehicles and replace them with electric cars.
Replacing a traditional ride-hailing car with an electric vehicle would deliver three times the environmental benefits and emission reductions, according to a new study. The finding comes as a new cost analysis by T&E shows that e-vehicles are cheaper to run for Uber drivers in many European cities, and Uber in Portugal says it will only take on new drivers if they have an EV.
Spain’s highest court has ruled that gas-powered cars can be excluded from benefiting from ‘scrappage’ schemes because they are worse for the climate than diesel vehicles. The ruling comes as a new T&E report discredited claims that compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles do not pollute the air with toxic particles.
In den kommenden Monaten wird die politische Debatte in Brüssel und den europäischen Hauptstädten vom Europäischen Wiederaufbaufonds dominiert werden, einem historischen europäischen Konjunkturprogramm in Höhe von 750 Milliarden Euro, das den EU-Ländern helfen soll, sich von den Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie zu erholen.
During the next months, the political debate in Brussels and other capitals, will be dominated by the European Recovery Fund, a historic European financing programme totalling €750 billion to help European countries to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
El Gobierno de España dijo hoy que su programa de achatarramiento de 230 millones de euros para coches podría usarse para comprar vehículos contaminantes con motores de combustión interna.[1] Este plan de ayuda pública del Gobierno permite que se beneficien del Programa “RENOVE 2020” los coches de gasolina y diesel incluso si éstos emiten por encima del objetivo climático 2020/21 de la UE de 95 gramos de CO2 por km. La federación europea de Transporte y Medio Ambiente (Transport and Environment, T&E) condenó el gasto de dinero público en vehículos contaminantes que envenenan el aire que respiran los ciudadanos y perjudican al planeta. Además, con este plan se correrá el riesgo de obligar a los fabricantes de automóviles a pagar fuertes multas por incumplir sus objetivos de CO2.
Spain’s government today said its €230 million scrappage scheme for cars could be used to buy polluting combustion engine vehicles.[1] Petrol cars and diesel cars will qualify under Programa “RENOVE 2020” even if they emit above the EU’s 2020/21 climate target of 95 grams of CO2 per km. Green group Transport & Environment (T&E) condemned the spending of public money on dirty vehicles that poison citizens and the planet and will risk pushing carmakers into paying heavy fines for missing their CO2 targets.
Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators like Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) revealed today.
Los últimos datos científicos han desacreditado las afirmaciones de que los automóviles a Gas Natural Comprimido (GNC) no contaminan el aire con partículas tóxicas. Es lo que se desprende de un informe publicado por la federación europea Transport & Environment, de la que forman parte Ecodes y Ecologistas en Acción.
