This guy turned his Tesla into an Uber, but it didn’t go well
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marketwatch.comPosted Sep 12, 2015, 7:02 AM UTC
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marketwatch.comBad math. Expenses.
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Aside from that, I'm assuming he is only counting mileage with a Pax in the car. With the base pay being ~$1.05/mile, you would have to have a Pax with you for more than 70% of your night, which at least in my market, is unlikely.
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In all honesty though, nobody is sorry for this dude. You don't go buy a $100,000 car and then take a minimum-wage job to pay for it.
Some of us have good reason to complain. This guy... just fucking no.
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He is just doing it for fun. She owns his own shipping company
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If he's just doing it for fun, then why bitch about the money?
Still no sympathy.
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Ok the base of $1.05 a mile for uber x but he is making more off of uber plus and in all reality can drive uber black and uber lux as well in a tesla.
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I wonder how u/jhall118 feels about this. If I recall, he does UberX in Seattle with a Tesla.
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$.70/m * 30m/hr = $21/hr =$42k/yr
$.70/m * 60m/hr = $42/hr = $84k/yr
What is the complaint here?
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Not counting taxes, that's a 2-year payoff on that car, roughly.
But then again, you're putting some serious mileage on a vehicle that's costing you a shit ton in electricity, even at good rates, and now you've got a 100,000 mile tesla that you've reduced the resale value on by probably close to $40k.
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Two words....
Solar Panels.
And I doubt a Tesla depreciates like a conventional auto. They are probably good for 500,000 miles with decent maintenance.
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I hope you mean on his house, because solar panels on a car aren't large enough with current technology to keep an electric car fully charged.
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Kalanick should be giving this guy a raise. People seem to really like it. Maybe some special guarantees for Tesla ubers.