Uber Pulls Back From Electric Cars, Slashing Incentives for Drivers (financialpost.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/1918242/uber-pulls-back-from-electric-cars-slashing-incentives-for-drivers
- Source link: https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/uber-pulls-back-electric-cars
The company is far behind its self-imposed climate targets. Uber had pledged to reach 100% EVs in London by 2025 and across North America and Europe by 2030. Current figures paint a different picture: roughly 40% of miles in London come from EVs, while Europe sits at about 15% and North America at just 9%. The company's emissions have nearly doubled over the past three years and now exceed Denmark's total carbon footprint. Uber executives acknowledged to Bloomberg that they will likely miss their green targets. The company has doled out $539 million of its $800 million pledge through the end of 2024. Meanwhile, Uber's operating profits are set to double this year, and the company recently committed $20 billion to stock buybacks.
[1] https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/uber-pulls-back-electric-cars
It was a marketing ploy. (Score:2)
Next up from the marketing department: AI determining driver routes.
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> Next up from the marketing department: AI determining driver routes.
Erm.... doesn't Uber already integrate with Google Maps, and doesn't every driver use live navigation software of some kind (not necessarily GMaps)... in which case, this is already true - no?
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Since when has a marketing department cared if something is already in use? Or anything including truth, really?
Does This Mean..? (Score:2)
Does this mean that it was corporate greenwashing all along?
Yes. If you didn't se that way back then you weren't looking.
Obvious EV incentive: (Score:2)
It's cheaper to maintain and drive an EV per mile than an ICE. People who know they want to Uber for a living tend to pick an EV when selecting a vehicle because it has a lower cost per mile and that savings goes right in your pocket.
The claim that corporation XYZ is "on a journey toward being more green" was always a scam and I never believed it, and politically the time is right for companies to pretend to act surprised that they won't meet their "green targets" because it might cost them money...so it
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> Capitalism is falling apart
Any day now.
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>> Capitalism is falling apart
> Any day now.
It fell apart for too many younger people a good while ago
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only for the coddled lazy who refuse to make something of themselves and don't properly work.
Buddy of mine drives a school bus (Score:2)
It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.
The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...
Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons w
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I don't know what we do.
Who's 'we'? It's working just fine for us capitalists, thank you.
Re: Economy is collapsing (Score:2)
What if the left embraced a strong basic income, and encouraged Trump to expand his payouts to farmers and direct health insurance payments to everyone, instead of using hallucinated economics excuses why those payments will just increase deficits (like that matters)?
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Trump isn't bailing out the farmers because he believes in social democratic politics. He does like the idea of checks with his name on them going out but if he could do that and make sure only people that voted for him gets the checks he would. You can manipulate his narcissm, but recognize that's what it is.
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"strong basic income"
in the USA? not going to happen with a massive political overhaul, think French Revolution
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without, not with, sigh.
Slashdot, wtf is so difficult about an Edit feature
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Then we'd go broke. Get a job; quit fantasizing.
Average profit over long term for farmers is 10-12% a year, they're not getting a handout for nothing but working their butt off, unlike a UBI parasite.
The left is about 2% and basic income is a scam (Score:2)
If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.
American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like
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Economically our problems are primarily political, capitalism needs rules, corrections, adjustments, constraints.
We all have jobs to do. Republicans have to keep touching the stove (like today's ACA subsidy vote down) so the populace is mad at them for a blue wave and finally explode their party back into sanity. Luckily the admin seems incapable of changing course so things will get worse. But If those 10-20 point swings in special elections hold up...
Democrats have to push their party to put up candidate
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You identified the issue, but misdiagnosed it. Globalism is falling apart, not capitalism. By this point everyone realized that exporting manufacturing jobs elsewhere or importing mass cheap labor benefits nobody but globalist elite that have no allegiance to any country or any people.