Motional and Lyft to begin transporting public passengers in the IONIQ 5 robotaxis starting in 2022 and will scale to a full-fledged commercial launch in 2023.
Argo AI and Ford will deploy Ford self-driving cars, with safety drivers, on the Lyft network with passenger rides beginning in Miami later this year and in Austin starting in 2022.
California Air Resources Board’s new standard mandates that 90% of ride-hailing miles traveled in California take place in zero-emission vehicles by 2030. Uber and Lyft want government help for the transition.
Lyft gets a ready supply of vehicles while Sixt gets an alternative outlet for its fleet — yet this partnership’s potential long-term evolution could be the true art in this deal.
The city of Los Angeles could mandate that rideshare services use only electric vehicles to help cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The venture will focus on creating more ways for Angelenos to get around — by bringing stakeholders to the table to develop new ideas, safely testing them on L.A.’s streets, and rolling them out in close partnership with local communities.
Lyft purchased Motivate in 2018, which incorporated multimodal forms of transportation on its app, and worked to get the forms on other apps, like Google Maps, Transit, Uber, and Lyft.
From a geeky industry insider standpoint, the fact that Lyft is renting fleet to consumers on a daily rate is a big deal. But questions abound regarding the business model and profitability.
Lyft will also add public transit info for nearby counties into its app.
The pilot program will be confined to a small area outside of Phoenix where Waymo has already been testing its autonomous technology.
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