Uber will apply a temporary fuel surcharge of 5 cents per kilometre on petrol, diesel, and hybrid vehicle trips in Australia from 15 April to 8 June, with all revenue passed directly to drivers to offset rising fuel costs. Battery electric vehicle trips, bookable through the Uber Electric option, are exempt from the fee — a distinction not made by rival rideshare platform DiDi, which has applied its own identical surcharge to all trips including EVs. The move follows a broader wave of fuel-related levies across Australia's rideshare and delivery sector, with unleaded petrol having peaked near 260 cents per litre in late March amid global oil market turbulence, and comes after Uber also implemented permanent fare increases in March that made some inner-suburban Sydney trips nearly 40% more expensive than comparable outer-suburban journeys.