electric ride-hailing, describes four main barriers to electric ride-hailing, and presents actions that Context: The Impacts and Status of Electric governments, ride-hailing companies, utilities, Ride-Hailing in the Transition to Sustainable, and other actors can take to overcome them, based on a literature review of academic and gray publications Equitable Mobility and consultations with experts. [...] To transition to EVs, many ride-hailing drivers will need access to overnight charging at or near their homes, which is currently a challenge for many drivers who rent their homes or live in 2 | Electrifying Ride-Hailing in the United States, Europe, and Canada: How to Enable Ride-Hailing Drivers to Switch to Electric Vehicles multiunit buildings. [...] This highlights the Therefore, this paper analyzes actions related to electric urgency of transitioning to fully electric vehicles (powered ride-hailing based on the extent to which they advance the by a clean energy supply) in the places that are the focus following goals: of this paper: the United States, Europe, and Canada. [...] Overnight charging also increases ride-hailing companies may shift to owning autonomous, the time that vehicles are available for smart charging and 12 | Electrifying Ride-Hailing in the United States, Europe, and Canada: How to Enable Ride-Hailing Drivers to Switch to Electric Vehicles vehicle-to-grid uses, which can help manage grid loads traveling to a public charger, waiting to access the char. [...] The bar- ▪ hailing drivers with EVs sharing their experiences rier of vehicle access is particularly relevant in smaller of buying and using the vehicles to build a positive cities and in Canada, where 97 percent of EV sales were perception of EVs in a credible peer-to-peer format imported vehicles (compared to 53 percent in the United (Grid Alternatives and EVNoire 2021).
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