Uber Planet News Today

The company focuses on building a better future in its mission to become the most sustainable platform on the planet. 

Mexican electric car provider VEMO and U.S. car-hailing platform Uber have partnered to boost the number of electric vehicles in the platform's Mexico City fleet.

With companies are under pressure from activists, investors and politicians, cab hailing company Uber, has set goals of becoming carbon neutral by 2040

(Clarifies increase in paragraph 13 is one percentage point)

In parts of Latin America, however, the company told Reuters a transition for drivers to zero emission EVs was "impractical" in the near term, given nascent EV markets there. So in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Costa Rica it is using the Uber Planet offset scheme, alongside efforts to encourage drivers to switch to EVs, it said.

Uber busca ser una opción a Google Maps, pues integrará opciones de transporte público en la app, así como estimados totales de punto a punto.