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The cars zipping around New York City streets will get a little more environmentally friendly over the next decade after the city’s mayor announced that rideshare companies must switch to electric vehicles by 2030, solidifying similar commitments Lyft and Uber made to convert their cars to EV’s by the same deadline.
Mayor Eric Adams included the directive in his State of the City speech on Thursday, specifically naming Uber and Lyft in his mission to require for-hire services to shift over to zero emission vehicles by the start of the next decade. This will affect over 100,000 vehicles on the city streets — and individual drivers won’t have to pay for it, the mayor stated.
