{"id":4681,"date":"2022-02-08T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/uber-backs-sadiq-khans-road-charging-proposals-for-london\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:36:16","slug":"uber-backs-sadiq-khans-road-charging-proposals-for-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/uber-backs-sadiq-khans-road-charging-proposals-for-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber backs Sadiq Khan\u2019s road-charging proposals for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: support for pledge on congestion and pollution as company unveils plans to expand zero-emission services<\/p>\n<p>Uber has swung its weight behind proposals from the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/18\/sadiq-khan-proposes-journey-charge-for-motorists-in-london\">more road charges<\/a> as it unveiled plans to expand zero-emission cab services.<\/p>\n<p>The ride-hailing firm said it had more than doubled the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on its app in London to 5,000 in the past year, which will allow it to widen out its Uber Green service \u2013 where users can request only EV drivers \u2013 from the city centre to cover the whole of greater London in the spring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/08\/uber-backs-sadiq-khans-road-charging-proposals-for-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ccc344f4332ee1ceb5d13246d82066a4b322ef2b\/0_110_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=325a57e29e374913ccb77089197e4206\" title=\"Uber backs Sadiq Khan\u2019s road-charging proposals for London\" \/>Exclusive: support for pledge on congestion and pollution as company unveils plans to expand zero-emission services<br \/>\nUber has swung its weight behind proposals from the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, for more road charges as it unveiled plans to expand zero-emission cab services.<br \/>\nThe ride-hailing firm said it had more than doubled the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on its app in London to 5,000 in the past year, which will allow it to widen out its Uber Green service \u2013 where users can request only EV drivers \u2013 from the city centre to cover the whole of greater London in the spring. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: support for pledge on congestion and pollution as company unveils plans to expand zero-emission services Uber has swung its weight behind proposals from the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, for more road charges as it unveiled plans to expand zero-emission cab services. The ride-hailing firm said it had more than doubled the number of electric &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/uber-backs-sadiq-khans-road-charging-proposals-for-london\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber backs Sadiq Khan\u2019s road-charging proposals for London<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}