Uber announces that combustion cars will be banned in the coming years

The issue is climatic, emergency and time in our favor stopped running a few years ago. Facing a future crisis and the constant breakthrough technology that the motoring industry has been presenting, companies are slowly starting to abandon combustion vehicles. This is the reality of some countries.

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The company responsible for the time is Uber. She set a date for cars in this category to be dismissed by her employees. They will have until the year 2030 to do so. The initiative wants platform drivers to abandon gasoline, ethanol and diesel engines from the next decade onwards.

Change in Brazil is scheduled for 2040

In a recent interview with TV station “CBS News”, Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, announced that this goal is directly linked to the United States, Canada and Europe. With regard to Brazil, the actions are a little more flexible and simple, given the infrastructure that the country currently has.

For the abandonment of combustion engines, Brazil is in the goal of the next decade and, therefore, has until 2040 as a deadline for the update. According to the company itself, the markets – which are updating themselves – will support new drivers to adopt electric cars. Around US$ 800 million should be invested in multiple incentive actions. The cost is equivalent to R$ 4.12 billion.

These incentives are already being seen in some US cities, where a partnership between Uber and Hertz has offered the option of renting a Tesla with a long-term contract, something that is still not relevant in Brazil for several reasons. factors. Especially when the margin of use of electric vehicles across the country, which currently stands at 26,000, is taken into account. However, there is a plan for that number to double in 2023.

A low average and still reasonable given the progressions in the US, Uber's 2030 target could be reached on time. For the time being, in Brazil there is no initiative to encourage electric vehicles, just as there is no function to choose a car that meets this characteristic in the application.

In the aforementioned regions, there is an ideological expansion so that combustion cars begin to fall into disuse, which is directly in line with the goal established by the transport platform. For other countries and regions around the world, the company has not yet released dates or situations corresponding to the locations.

It is worth noting that electric cars are still expensive. In the United States, its average cost is between US$ 60,000, something around R$ 310,000. This is something that still escapes reality for many people; however, as the world has already presented us with great progress in a few years, the way in which citizens will move around could change dramatically by the time we reach the next decade.

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