Sustainable mobility has Uber as one of the main players in Latin America. According to official company figures, 22.5 million users rode in low-emission vehicles through the platform in Latin America, offsetting 109,000 tons of CO2 in the region.
The company is committed to becoming a zero-emission platform by 2040 with 100% of trips in zero-emission vehicles.
Uber has electric car projects in countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican Republic. In the short term they expect to expand these programs to Costa Rica and Colombia.
A few weeks ago, Uber announced an agreement with Brazilian bike-sharing company Tembici to make electric and shared bicycles available on its app in Latin America.
The alliance aims to make it easier for people to travel short distances with these lightweight vehicles instead of using cars.
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Tembici and Itaú bicycles will be available for rent on the Uber app initially in the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil, but they expect the initiative to expand to São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Salvador, Porto Alegre and others Latin American cities where Tembici operates.
“Very happy to announce the partnership between Tembici and Uber. We are now officially the first company with a shared station model in the world to make bikes available on the app of the largest mobility platform out there,” highlighted Tomás Martins, Co-Founder and CEO of Tembici.
“This partnership underscores the important role that car-free options increasingly play in Uber’s zero-carbon strategy,” said Annie Duvnjak, General Manager of Global Micromobility at Uber in statements released by Reuters.
Tembici, which in addition to Brazilian cities also operates in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Bogota, has raised money from International Finance Corp, Valor Capital Group, Redpoint eventures and Crescera Capital in recent years.
Earlier this year, the company also obtained a US$31.40 million loan from Brazil’s state development bank, BNDES, to expand the capacity of its plants in Manaus and Extrema. The company expects to close 2023 with 30,000 bicycles on the streets of Latin America, a third of them electric.
Uber detailed that the Tembici and Itaú bike docking stations would appear “soon” in its app, but did not provide a specific date. Nor did it disclose the amounts involved in the deal.
