Range anxiety, Uber and Lyft style

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See updates through October 17, 2022, at end of post.


Fig. 1. Unattributed and undated image via Spencer Thomason in a disgraceful puff piece[1] for Uber’s electrification effort,[2] fair use.

So a funny thing has happened.

You might be aware that Uber and Lyft have both promised that 100 percent of their rideshare fleets will be electric vehicles by 2030.[3] Now California has called the companies on it, mandating that 90 percent of rideshare miles must be in electric vehicles by 2030. I haven’t looked at the order myself, but it looks like this includes “deadhead” miles, that is, non-revenue miles without a passenger.[4]

And the companies are waffling.[5] It seems that even with significantly lower operating costs for electric vehicles, rideshare drivers are already falling behind other drivers in adoption, in part because of purchase costs, and in part because the companies will need to actually put some money up to help drivers, whom they pay so poorly and few of whom are rich, acquire these vehicles.[6] But the companies accuse “the Air Resources Board [of] glossing over the difficulties in meeting the 2030 mandates.”[7]

Those would be the same difficulties the companies glossed over when they made their pledges in the first place.[8] But those aren’t the only difficulties.

I’m in Pennsylvania now, not California, but when I looked at all this in the Irregular Bullshit, I felt that both range and charging station availability were inadequate:[9]

Apparently unlike most Uber and Lyft drivers, I have good to excellent credit (easily excellent by Toyota’s standards), so I probably could finance a more expensive (to buy) electric car. But as an Uber/Lyft driver, I see two major problems with trying to go electric:

  1. Range: The maximum range I found for an electric car usable with Uber and Lyft was 305 miles.[10] I strongly doubt this is the usable range both because range estimate are likely exaggerated just like Environmental Protection Agency gas mileage estimates and because you have to set aside enough of a charge to get to a charging station. I’m presently averaging 168 miles per day, but 250-plus mile days are not uncommon and I had a 356-mile day less than a month ago.

    Plus, driving for Uber and Lyft isn’t my entire life. I expect to take a trip cross-country to retrieve more of my stuff from California early next year. I’m expecting to drive 600 plus miles per day (down from the 800 I targeted when I moved east a couple years ago). I really want to preserve that option, and not just for this particular trip, but if I have to take several hours per day to charge my car, because the charging rate slows as the battery reaches a full charge,[11] even with a 300-mile range, there’s no way that works.

  2. Charging: I live in an apartment. While I have a garage in my present apartment (I’m planning to move later this year), it does not have electricity and my next apartment might not have a garage at all. I would be at the mercy of high-priced charging stations. My present status with Uber would mean a 25 percent discount on EVGo’s standard rates, but only for an hour of high-speed charging time.[12] This would almost certainly not be enough and there is a risk the high speed charging might shorten battery life, particularly if it is the only charging method used.[13]

    And, um, yeah, I actually am wondering what a battery replacement does to those operating costs.

So I’m still looking at a Toyota RAV4 XLE Hybrid, probably later this year.[14]

There is a lot of stuff that needs to happen before Uber and Lyft drivers can go electric and while there might be a way for Uber and Lyft to help drivers with financing without further muddying the waters of the independent contractor scam that they impose on us,[15] the range question has not, no matter how much regulators, corporate executives, and other non-drivers might want to pretend, gone away.

It’s now been over a month since that 356-mile day I drove. But I drove 273 miles just a few days ago. An Environmental Protection Agency estimated range of 305 miles[16] just isn’t going to do and I’m really going to need places I can charge the car closer to home.

Update, May 22, 2021: So you know how people have been saying Uber and Lyft need to increase pay to encourage drivers to come back after quitting for the pandemic[17] and how Uber and Lyft have said they would?[18] Guess what? Uber is cutting my bonuses. Maybe they thought I wouldn’t notice.

The last time I called an Uber, because I’d left my car at the shop for routine service, I had to accept an increased fare. And it may be—it’s hard for me to tell—that they’re passing on some of that increase to drivers. But it’s pretty clear my earnings will be down from last week. Because that’s what Uber and Lyft do.[19]

But hey, we’re supposed to buy electric cars, which of course we’ll have to finance,[20] and make payments on. Any idea how that’s going to work when you keep cutting our pay, Uber?

Update, October 27, 2021: I remember once when I wasn’t driving for Uber or Lyft but was working in the gig economy in another capacity in my Toyota Prius, someone walked up to my car thinking I was their Uber. It happened because the Prius gets really good gas mileage and so Uber and Lyft drivers often drive them. Sure, the guy was drunk, but because a Prius is so often an Uber or Lyft, the mistake was understandable.

Now, Hertz and Tesla might be about to change that. And I just can’t wait to see what well-heeled Tesla owners think of this.

When news emerged that Hertz was buying 100,000 Teslas,[21] I raised an eyebrow and carried on. But it turns out half of them will be reserved for Uber drivers.[22]

My concern here has been about range[23] and so I wound up buying a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, with well over 500 miles of range. Over the last two weeks, I’ve had five days where I’ve driven in excess of 250 miles. That’d definitely be pushing the bottom end of what is here reported as a 262-353 mile range (depending on battery size).[24] I had one day, in that period, that exceeded the top end of that range.

Charging stations remain scarce around Pittsburgh, especially in the South Hills where I live, and indeed Pittsburgh will not be among the cities where the Teslas are initially offered, but Hertz will be adding charging stations to at least some of its locations.[25]

Update, October 28, 2021: Apparently that deal for Hertz to buy 100,000 Teslas and make 50,000 of them available to Uber drivers[26] includes an option to raise the latter number to 150,000, in which case Hertz would buy 200,000 Teslas. Uber drivers will not have access to Tesla’s misnamed “full self-driving package.”[27]

Update, November 3, 2021: Anywhere from 50,000 to 150,000 of these Teslas that Hertz says it is purchasing are meant for Uber drivers.[28] Elon Musk criticizes the hype, denying that a deal has been made and pointing out that demand for Teslas already far outstrips his company’s ability to produce them,[29] but if Liam Denning is right, the hype is precisely what funds the purchase of these Teslas, via a stock market bubble.[30]

The rich play their games, even starting a space race to escape the planet they destroy.[31] The rest of us will be left with the resulting mess.

Update, November 4, 2021: It appears unlikely that Tesla has the capacity to fill Hertz’s order for 100,000 Model 3s by the end of 2022. The two companies are negotiating this but a delivery rate of 10,000 per year would be more normal. Hertz may also seek to acquire electric vehicles from other manufacturers.[32] How this affects its deal with Uber[33] is unclear.

Update, October 17, 2022: I can’t tell you how much I distrust the gig economy and the companies exploiting workers in it. For me, it really is, if the companies are for it, it’s gotta be somehow evil and it must be opposed. But it’s possible Lyft is on the right side of this one.[34]

California’s Proposition 30 would raise taxes on the rich to encourage electric vehicle adoption and fund charging infrastructure. Lyft is backing the measure; Uber is not participating.[35] But it does not and, of course, cannot address the issue that kills electric vehicles as an option for me: range and charge time.[36]

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