JUMP's bikes employ batteries
The batteries clearly have a more favourable status than Uber's drivers, then...
Uber apparently isn't burning cash fast enough, so the ride-share company has bought dockless bike-share outfit JUMP Bikes, with CEO Ryan Rzepecki coming along for the ride. In February, everybody's favourite it's-not-a-taxi provider tied up with San Francisco's JUMP so users of its apps could rent battery-powered bikes …
As JUMP's bikes employ batteries, they'll be more expensive to acquire and operate than other bike share vehicles.
CapEx will be higher, yes but OpEx will be about the same: insurance premiums, security mechanisms but particularly paying to move the bikes back from popular end points to popular starting points.
For regular bike hire schemes, popular start points are at the top of a hill and popular end points are at the bottom. Hence the need for an army of drivers to shuffle them around.
Battery-powered bicycles can go uphill quite easily, thus neatly avoiding the problem in the first place.