This is supposed to cost the ride-share drivers nothing, but no one’s explained how.
These drivers buy their own cars, often going into debt to purchase a luxury SUV or other passenger-appealing vehicle.The rule likely forcesdrivers to switch to a pricey alternative when there’s ample value still left in the cars they have now. The ride-sharing companies reached the agreement ahead of new rules being released by the Taxi and Limousine Commission on converting cabs and for-hire fleets to electric vehicles.For Uber, with its supply-and-demand price-setting, that’ll hike fares; for Lyft, just leave you waiting to land a ride.
Not to mention that the city’s current number of charging stations can’t support this transition. Plus, charging can take“That’s zero emissions for over 100,000 vehicles on our city streets. And it will be achieved with no new costs for individual drivers,” Adams said in a press meeting.All this, when the shift to EVs is fundamentally an environmental con, at least for the foreseeable future.
That doesn’t account for the much larger carbon footprint of making an EV, nor the fact that 88% of American electricity is produced byOnce again, the full facts about “combatting climate change” prove pretty . . . anticlimactic.