Ride-hailing service says slow progress on government policies is hampering roll out of more EVs in the country
An Uber-branded private hire vehicle at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, Poland, on March 23. Picture: REUTERS/Toby Melville
SA, though, largely has been left behind because of the dire state of electricity supply and high import taxes that continue to keep EVs out of reach for most South Africans. But for now, the world’s largest ride-hailing platform hasn’t set a firm targets on achieving the same in SA owing to the current lacklustre state of the country’s EV market.
“We think very carefully about total cost of ownership and a lot of it is dependent on third parties outside Uber. So [through] these deals with OEMs [original equipment manufacturers], we’ve managed to to start getting scale globally, which is very important to chip away at a piece of the of the affordability EVs.
Various cities and countries also have plans to ban, restrict or impose levies on internal combustion engine-powered vehicles to cut pollution. In London, motorists with “older, more polluting vehicles” are charged a R300 daily levy to drive in the city. Uber is part of a collective called Go Green Africa, which is lobbying the government to implement favourable policies that would encourage the use of EVs in SA. Hiemstra says engagements with Western Cape officials in that regard have been progressive.
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