BOSTON — Despite the file excessive gas prices, trip shares like Uber say they noticed a rise in drivers with May being the apps finest month by way of lively drivers since earlier than the pandemic. But these drivers are nonetheless having bother making a revenue.
In the rideshare world this driver is called Kojak. “Who loves ya baby?,” joked Kojak. But Kojak and most drivers should not loving these prices. “We are feeling the pain every day,” stated Kojak, “what we used to make the profit get lower because the gas is taken from the profit.”
When the gas prices began spiraling up, each Uber and Lyft put a gas surcharge into place the place drivers can accumulate a 55 cent gas charge per trip. Electric car drivers additionally get the charge. Both apps nonetheless have it. Uber telling us “We know drivers are feeling the sting of record-high prices at the pump so we are temporarily extending the gas surcharge on rides trips.”
Uber says the surcharge is to soften the burden of upper prices, not cowl all the value of gas. Many drivers at the moment are utilizing utilizing extra fuel-efficient vehicles like hybrid and electric. “it’s easy to charge, easy to connect,” stated an EV driver, “240 miles I can drive so after that you need to come back and charge it”
There are incentives to assist encourage rideshares to go electric by providing free cost up stations at some places just like the rideshare ready lot at Logan. One EV driver informed us he doesn’t even discover the excessive gas prices anymore. “I don’t even check it,” the motive force joked.
AAA says the typical value of gas went up one other nickel in a single day hitting $4.84.
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