Electric Cars are failing with Taxi Drivers

Heat seems to be the culprit, not quick charging.

 

Mixing up the different types of taxi drivers. The driver of a company owned taxi will pay their own fuel. The boss doesn't care about mpg's. An owner driver is more likely to have fuel economy at the forefront as well as overall running and servicing costs, but a Tesla just isn't going to happen. As mentioned earlier, the UK spec Tesla is going for $90,000! ha ha ha ha. It'll flop at that. Shame, but they've got greedy. Suckers.

 

He? he? Oh you mean me?

I live at 54 degrees, with summers at no more than 30c and winters around freezing and no lower than -7 generally.

It's actually the heat generated in the battery by the heavy town/city driving in a taxi environment - hard acceleration, hard brake, repeat for 10 hours a day. The Prius didn't like it some days. The heater will need to run hard in winter as as others have said, the doors on taxis get opened often. The Prius barely had time to warm back up again sometimes before the doors were opened again.

 

From the OP: "-nuclear radiation power?" What kind of talk is that. Do your research.

 

EVs for taxi use is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I drive about 200 miles per shift, and pay between $15-$20 in fuel costs.

Put in perspective, that 8-10 hour shift grosses $200-350, or more, I commonly gross $25-50 per hour.

So waiting hours each shift for a charge or getting stuck with a dead battery, or inconveniencing my customers is not a business decisio.

Hell it's not even safe.

 

Anchorage, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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OK, you caught me. I mean lower 48 state.

 

I thought he said MAJOR city lol

 

In Alaska, that's as "major" as it can get.

 

I was pulling his leg. I'm sure it's a lovely place.