Welcome to Zero, I am Akshadrati.

This week, can Uber go green?

It may surprise you to learn that Europe's biggest lobbyist for electric cars isn't an automaker,

or the battery industry. It's Uber.

That's surprising because in recent months there has been a slowdown in electric car sales,

and automakers want a reprieve on their green goals. Not Uber though. The

right-hailing company has been leading the charge to get regulators to change the rules and

get more electric vehicles on the road. On this week's episode, I got to ask the company's CEO,

Dara Kosrosha, about it. He was in London recently, making the case that Uber customers should opt for the electric

car option in their app, even if it means waiting a few extra minutes.

As an occasional Uber taker, the green feature is something I am familiar with. And it is a step in the right direction.

But it's only available in 200 cities out of the 10,000 that have Uber's. As you'll hear in the

conversation, in 2020, Uber set some big goals about going electric for 2025, 2030 and 2040.

It's unlikely that the company will meet the 2025 goals and even the 2030 goals are going to be a stretch.

But the company is sticking with them because Uber sees going electric being good for business, not just for the planet.

There are other reasons to go electric.

We talk about driverless cars, and I tried one of those for the first time in San Francisco

this summer.

And we talk about flying taxis, a climate solution I haven't tried yet.

But we didn't stop there. Few CEOs of major companies sit down with a climate solution, I haven't tried yet. But we didn't stop there.

Few CEOs of major companies sit down with a climate journalist.

So I asked him about carbon accounting and also about a just transition.

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