Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt

Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by eliben on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:08AM (#12884901)

The article mentions Lyft drivers getting their hands on the Bolt first. How does that make sense? Is a range of 200 miles really sufficient for the needs of a Lyft driver? Wouldn't it mean no more than 3-4 hours of driving per day? [wild guesstimate]

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by mnwg on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:21AM (#12884938)

You think a taxi averages 50-66mph over 3-4 hours?

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by taxicabjesus on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:36AM (#12885230)

For a 12-hour shift, I'd typically travel 200 miles. A good day would be 250+. About 1/2 of those miles were with the meter on.

Every so often I'd get a good fare going in the wrong direction - passenger was going east at the end of my day, and I'd have to backtrack empty to return the cab on the west side of the valley to the next driver. It was 94 miles to get back to the Valley from Globe...

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by eliben on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:45AM (#12885873)

Interesting, thanks for the numbers

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by eliben on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:20AM (#12885173)

Depends where it's going, I guess? Other factors like A/C take as much power in stop-and-go as when driving. As I said, rough estimate. I would assume a typical taxi would drive more than 200 miles per working day; isn't this a reasonable assumption?

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by taxicabjesus on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:58AM (#12885328)

> I would assume a typical taxi would drive more than 200 miles per working day;

Depends on how much time you spend on the freeway. For me, a typical 12-hour shift covered about 200 miles. Some days I didn't work the full 12 hours; other days I 'got lucky' and had to cover a lot of ground.

One of my better fares was a guy who'd pissed off his girlfriend by (probably) getting obnoxiously drunk at the Lakers/Suns game... It was 89 miles to get him home, then I had to drive 94 miles to get the cab back to the day driver:

https://goo.gl/maps/4xFsvJtHzLK2

That story was at the close of this kuro5hin.org (RIP) diary:

http://www.taxiwars.org/2012/04/22-degrees-of-intoxication.h...

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Re:Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt by nickez on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:38AM (#12885241)

You dont have to assume when you have google, yeah it seems to be a bit below 200 miles per 12h shift..

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