Uber has expanded its Comfort Electric service “nationwide” to 24 US cities, letting customers request rides in all-electric autos just like the Tesla Model 3, Polestar 2 and Ford Mustang Mach-E. It additionally expanded to Vancouver in British Columbia, which has the highest sales rate of zero-emission autos in North America.

Comfort Electric launched final May in a number of cities as a part of the Uber Comfort service. That permits riders to request further legroom and different high-end options for a 20-40 p.c premium over Uber X journeys. It’s separate from the Uber Green service, which provides drivers an additional price for electrified autos. Uber Green allows both EVs and hybrids, although, whereas Comfort Electric is proscribed to EVs.

Uber stated that its partnership with Hertz “helped pave the way for the expansion of Comfort Electric, with more than 25,000 drivers renting a Tesla.” Last yr, Hertz introduced that it might order 100,000 Teslas, and shortly afterwards, stated it might make as much as 50,000 of these obtainable for lease solely to Uber ridesharing drivers within the US.

The service is now obtainable in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore-Maryland, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, NYC Suburbs, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St Louis, Vancouver (Canada) and Washington, DC — up from 11 cities beforehand.

The enlargement seems like a small step in Uber’s purpose of turning into a zero-emissions platform within the US and Canada by 2030. It has promised to spend $800 million to assist drivers transition to all-electric autos by 2025. California would require ride-hailing providers to be all-electric by 2030, and different states like New York additionally plan to ban gross sales of gas-burning automobiles.