Ford providing versatile EV leases to Uber drivers

Ford is teaming up with Uber to supply versatile leases on electrical automobiles to rideshare drivers.

Uber is below strain from governments around the globe to get extra of its drivers into EVs to cut back tailpipe air pollution and struggle local weather change. And Ford is raring to get extra of its Mustang Mach-Es on the street because it pours billions of {dollars} into EV manufacturing whereas incurring enormous losses.

Underneath the brand new Ford Drive program, Uber drivers would have the ability to lease a Mustang Mach-E for versatile phrases, both one or four-months, relying on the situation. And there are different advantages as properly. In line with Ford:

The automobile is delivered to the driving force inside two weeks, and so they use the Ford Drive app to handle funds and repair. In every metropolis, the Ford Drive staff works with native sellers to buy a fleet of Mach-Es. Service and upkeep of these automobiles are carried out by means of sellers as properly. 

However the lease program gained’t have a large rollout but. To begin out, the businesses are piloting this system in three cities: San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Ford Drive really launched already in San Diego, with Ford leasing 150 EVs to Uber drivers in 2022. California is the largest EV market within the US, and the largest marketplace for EVs pushed on Uber’s ridehail platform.

Uber has been working its personal EV ridehail service in dozens of cities since final yr. Solely premium EVs, like Tesla, Polestar, and, after all, the Ford Mustang Mach-E, can be thought of eligible for Consolation Electrical journeys. It should sit alongside the corporate’s different EV product, Uber Inexperienced, which supplies drivers an additional price (normally $1) to make use of electrical automobiles.

That is the second main partnership to be introduced by Ford in latest days. Final week, the automaker mentioned it will undertake Tesla’s EV charging customary within the curiosity of opening up Elon Musk’s reliable and widespread charging community to Ford EV house owners.