: With the Supreme Court giving them another month to switch their fleets to CNG, sources in app-based cab aggregation services Ola and Uber said they would continue with the shift.
The Apex Court’s directive on Thursday comes as a welcome development for the AAP government, which was apprehensive about the supposed impact of the lesser availability of vehicles being operated by these companies during the second phase of its odd-even scheme, which will begin from April 15.
Sources in both companies said the senior management was of the view that the shift to CNG was “inevitable” and that their business strategy would continue to revolve around it in the Capital despite the “grace period”.
A Delhi government officialsaid the two firms have nearly 50,000 CNG-run vehicles in their fleet.
“We have added well over 11,000 CNG cars in the last five months,” Gagan Bhatia, General Manager of Uber North, said.
Deep Singh, Business Head of North at Ola, said: “Ola has helped tens of thousands of driver partners purchase new CNG cars...”. It submitted that it operated a fleet of 26,000 CNG cabs in Delhi-NCR.
