EVwire brief: Electric vehicles now drive one in five Uber trip miles in Europe and one in ten in the US and Canada, both record highs. Uber's Q3 2026 Electrification Update puts the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) share of on-trip miles at 20.5% in Europe and 10.5% in the US and Canada, with Europe topping one in five for the first time.
That puts Uber well ahead of the wider car market. Battery-electric cars made up an estimated 3.2% of all cars on the road in Europe and 2.3% in the US and Canada in 2025, according to International Energy Agency figures cited by Uber, and the company says its drivers are electrifying up to five times faster than the average motorist.
The two regions moved roughly in step until early 2024, with Europe ahead by up to four percentage points. Since Q2 2024, Europe has more than doubled its share from 9.9% to 20.5%, while the US and Canada share flattened out around 9%:
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The US and Canada share had stalled for most of 2025, hovering between 9.1% and 9.5%, and slipped in Q4 2025 for the first time since Uber started tracking. Uber said Q2 and Q3 2026 then brought some of its largest quarterly increases across Canada, Europe and the US, with the US and Canada share climbing from 9.1% in Q1 to 10.5% in Q3.
More drivers are making the switch, too. Uber averaged more than 434,000 monthly active ZEV drivers worldwide in Q3 2026, almost 52% more than a year earlier and up from about 8,000 in Q1 2021:
Uber's ZEV trip count has grown every quarter since 2021, from about 3 million to more than 207 million in Q3 2026, or about 26 trips every second. Growth briefly stalled at the start of this year, when Q1 2026 came in at 154 million, barely above Q4 2025's 151 million. It then picked up again, adding 29 million trips in Q2 and another 24 million in Q3, for a 52% year-over-year gain:
Uber also reported its passenger carbon intensity for 2025. Each passenger mile generated an average of 186 grams of CO₂ in Europe (116 g per km) and 318 grams in the US and Canada (199 g per km), down 19% and 12% from 2021. Uber attributes most of the gap between the two regions to lower average fuel economy among vehicles on its platform in the US and Canada, along with stricter US fuel economy reporting standards.
Some cities are much further along. Uber said EVs now cover more than 50% of its trip miles in Amsterdam, over 40% in London and over 35% in Vancouver. Amsterdam's share is more than double Europe's average, and Vancouver's is more than three times the US and Canada average. Uber noted that EV miles are growing fastest where government policy, industry investment and charging networks line up:
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Uber said it has put hundreds of millions of dollars into electrification programs, incentives and partnerships, but that progress still depends on cost and infrastructure. High upfront EV prices, financing and insurance costs, limited or complicated charging access and inconsistent policies continue to slow adoption, and the company said it did not fully meet its 2025 mobility and delivery goals. Based on current trends, Uber noted, its 2030 goals remain out of reach without stronger coordinated action from governments and industry.
Tesla remains a big part of that driver base. Earlier this year, the Model Y was the most-used EV among Uber drivers in France. Uber also expects autonomous electric vehicles to speed up the shift, and it has been lining up robotaxi partners, from Pony.ai in London to the Lucid and Nuro robotaxi set to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Source: Uber Electrification Update
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