Climate Impacts of Ride-Hailing vs. Private Vehicles

摘要

A pooled trip in an EV is the lowest-carbon option for ride-hailing, while non-pooled trips in today's ride-hailing vehicles produce about 47 percent more emissions than a trip of the same length in a private vehicle. Note: Results are based on data from seven U.S. metropolitan areas. The private vehicle trip assumes a fuel economy of 23.8 miles per gallon. A pooled trip is assumed to displace two vehicle trips, with the passengers sharing the ride for half of the distance of their trips. Error bars represent uncertainty in the percentage of deadheading miles. The error bars for electric trips (pooled and non-pooled) also include variability in electricity grid emissions among the seven metropolitan areas.