Rural Electric Shuttle Program Builds on ‘Indigenous Uber’ Tradition

A longstanding “Indigenous Uber” service in Fresno Country, California has made the transition to electric vehicles, giving the area’s farmworkers and other low-income residents access to affordable, low-emissions transport.

“Born of a lack of public transit, a concern for the environment and stubborn resolve,” the Green Raiteros program in Huron, Fresno County, is seen as a way of putting “mobility justice” in action, writes The New York Times. Bred from a tradition of ride sharing in Latino communities, the program tries to “address the reality that low-income communities most affected by pollution from diesel trucks, highways, and other sources have had the least access to zero-emission vehicles.”