These include a brand-new, fully electric small SUV, and a new fully autonomous car that will be the basis of its new electric ride-hailing fleet, with a target debut date of 2021.
Uber Elevate is Uber's all-encompassing term for its initiative to launch uberAIR, which is the its aerial electric ride-hailing service, as well as any other initiatives (think food delivery) that may benefit from air transport.
In just the past month, Lyft announced its plan to bring self-driving Lyft service to Boston, raised an additional $25 million and partnered with Jaguar Land Rover, and set a goal of one billion autonomous electric rides per year by 2025.
At a somewhat more affordable starting price of $35,000, you could now opt for a sporty all-electric ride versus an Audi or BMW.
At the 175-year-old Mount Auburn, it has meant lectures on the warbler migration by the Massachusetts Audubon Society; at Spring Grove in Cincinnati, tourists in electric trams ride past the grave of Salmon P. Chase, the founder of the Internal Revenue Service (they usually boo).
This way you can hop on your little electric Weasel, ride down the thoroughfares of America's cathedral to commerce, and get your Cinnabon, your WinPho 7 phone, and your iPod all in the same place.
Scoot, the San Francisco-based electric scooter ride share network, has teamed up with Nissan to create a four-wheeled two-seater enclosed vehicle onto the streets of San Francisco.
