![]() Turning down rides used to eventually incur you a penalty if you did it enough times, so not getting offered clearly impossible rides is advantageous. The obvious upside to this feature is that it would only give you rides that you can do. I couldn’t check for myself to see what the details under the asterisk were, but it appears to filter out rides that the app figures you can’t complete on your current charge. Apparently, you can now connect the Uber app to the Tesla app to let the app be aware of your vehicle’s state of charge. I haven’t driven for Uber in years, but I found a Tweet with a very interesting screenshot. The app can now access your account, with your permission, to give you rides according to your car’s real time battery range. Uber Has A New Tool For Tesla Drivers That Could Help With This Other times, there’d just be a random long ride that unexpectedly came up that would have been nice, but that I didn’t have enough range for. Sometimes, there’d be a really good ride out of the airport that the car didn’t have enough range for, and refusing the ride could get you kicked out of the virtual queue for passengers. ![]() Once at 80%, I’d try for a long ride.īut one of the big problems with this method is that I’d still occasionally hook a big fish I couldn’t reel in. When the charge got too low, I’d leave the app and head to a charger near the airport. I’d start the day at home with a full charge (when the apartment’s charging station was working), willing to go in any direction, and then start setting the destination back toward the parts of town with a charger. One tool the rideshare apps had when I did it was a “destination mode.” It let you choose a point you’d prefer to get rides towards, essentially filtering out rides that went in the wrong direction. That’s no small challenge! How I Coped With It So, the challenge is really more of how to fit the EV you own or lease/rent, the city you’re working in, and the rideshare job all together to maximize profits. If nothing else, people just aren’t going to uproot to a city with better charging for a relatively low-paying job. But drivers don’t usually choose what city they work in, because Ubering is often a side job or something people do between jobs. ![]() That way, you can keep running and topping off between rides to stay prepared for the big fish to bite. One way to avoid that is to work in a city with a bunch of DC fast charging stations. So, you don’t want to get your battery too low doing a bunch of short rides and then miss out on the big fish that really pushes the day’s income forward. Getting a 50-mile ride means getting paid continuously for time and miles, but getting 50 1-mile rides means you are not getting paid for all the time between rides, limiting your potential for income during the course of a day. A customer might need to only go a few blocks, or they might need a very long ride between cities, or anything in between.Īnd, really, it’s the long rides you hope to get whenever you can. What makes that even more challenging is that you don’t get to decide what rides you’re offered, because rideshare companies can’t predict future customer needs. Ideally, you want to keep yourself available for rides as much as possible to keep making money, but that requires balancing the need to charge with the need to be available. ![]() Trying to do that in an EV that lacks liquid cooling in a hot city like Phoenix didn’t turn out to be a great idea, but talking to fellow drivers, it was pretty clear that many of the other challenges still applied, even in a Tesla. How do I know? I did it for about 50,000 miles in a 2018 Nissan LEAF. Working as an Uber or Lyft (or both) driver in an EV can be challenging. Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. ![]()
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