A Closer Look at Lyft's 100% EV Commitment

A Closer Look at Lyft’s 100% EV Commitment

On this week’s Political Climate, we speak to the director of sustainability at Lyft about how the company’s new electric vehicle pledge fits into a broader corporate climate strategy.

Julia Pyper June 18, 2020

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor
Greentech Media

Julia Pyper is a Senior Editor at Greentech Media covering the energy transition. She is also the host and producer of the Political Climate podcast. She previously reported for E&E Publishing, and has covered clean energy and climate change issues across the U.S. and abroad, including in India, Haiti, Israel and the Maldives. She holds degrees from McGill and Columbia Universities. Find her on Twitter @JMPyper.

Lyft is going 100% electric. The rideshare company just pledged to transition every vehicle on its platform to an EV by 2030.

But this decision isn’t as simple as buying a few new cars. It will require building out an entire ecosystem of electric vehicle infrastructure and incentives, as well as getting into the weeds on policy. On this episode of Political Climate, we speak to Lyft’s director of sustainability, Sam Arons, about this bold new strategy.

We talk to Arons about the EV target and how to meet it, plus related policies and how electric rideshare vehicles can support the power grid. We also talk a lot about the broader transportation ecosystem, the future of cities and Lyft’s evolving role as a self-described “multimodal technology platform."

Lyft's announcement also speaks to how companies are looking to play a bigger role in the fight against climate change, in an era of increasing public pressure for greater corporate responsibility. Learn more about Lyft's sustainability strategy in this exclusive, in-depth interview.