Volkswagen and Uber join forces to help the environment lowering emissions
Two giants in the car and customer service industry are working together in a pilot project that will be beneficial for the environment. Volkswagen e-cars will be added soon to the Uber Green program.
As you probably guessed it, this pilot project combines Uber’s share-ride service with one of Volkswagen’s most popular models: the e-Golf. This collaboration produces zero emissions and helps to reduce the damage to our planet.
The goal of the project is to begin using hundreds of electric Volkswagen Golf vehicles from last year to operate in Uber Green float. Berlin will be the testing ground for this project, so the rest of the world will have to hang on for a minute or even more to have this service available.
The Head of Sales and Marketing Germany for the VW Passenger Car, Holger B. Santel is pleased with this collaboration and he said: “Through our cooperation with Uber, we are helping improve air quality in urban areas with our locally carbon-neutral electric vehicles. In addition, with the demanding continuous operation of battery-electric vehicles in a ride hailing service, we will gain valuable experience which we will be able to use for future vehicles.”
Also, the General Manager Uber DACH, Christoph Weigler, expresed: “We are pleased to have gained Volkswagen, one of the world’s leading drivers for e-mobility, as a partner for our intermediation platform. Electric vehicles from Volkswagen are a perfect match for our sustainable “Uber Green” concept. This cooperation offers our hire car partners an economically attractive possibility of switching to zero-emission drive systems at short notice. In addition, our experience shows that people are considerably more open to the topic of e-mobility after their first ride in an all-electric vehicle.”
Volkswagen is not new to the “green rides” initiative, for the last two years they have been using the e-Golf on its own car sharing service “We Share” and it has been very successful.
On the other hand, Uber Green has been actively servicing thousands of customers in many cities. Each Uber Green ride charges an extra $1; half will go to the driver to support their use of a hybrid or electric vehicle, the other half will go toward the Green Future program.
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