Uber Jordan commits to 50 per cent clean vehicles by end of year

AMMAN — Uber Jordan has voiced commitment to  having 50 per cent of its vehicles on the network cleaner by the end of 2018.

In a statement to The Jordan Times, the company said that nearly 30 per cent of the trips currently delivered on the network in Amman are provided by electric vehicles, including hybrids and full battery electric vehicles.

Hamdi Tabbaa, head of operations at Uber Jordan was quoted in the statement as saying that “drivers using the app in Jordan stand to gain from the use of electric vehicles as they are far more efficient than combustion vehicles, and thus the technology can translate to lower daily operating costs for them”, Tabaa added.

“To put this into perspective — today it would cost a driver almost JD8 in petrol to drive 100km; to go that distance in a full battery electric vehicle, they could pay just over JD1 for the electricity. “