San Mateo County’s electricity provider Peninsula Clean Energy on Tuesday announced a partnership with Lyft on a $500,000 pilot program to provide a rental incentive to ride-hailing drivers that would make the cost of renting an electric vehicle comparable to a gas-powered one.
The program, which will launch this fall with Lyft’s rental car partner Flexdrive, seeks to expand EV use to about 100 Lyft vehicles in San Mateo County while getting more drivers used to using electric vehicles and collecting data that can better inform how the EV fleet can be expanded further.
“Partnering with Lyft and Flexdrive in this pilot effort represents a big opportunity to reduce a significant source of heat-trapping emissions in our region,” Peninsula Clean Energy CEO Jan Pepper said in a news release. “We believe this can eventually lead to a far greater number of ride-hailing and other drivers on the road who will opt for cleaner electrified transportation options.”
With all due respect, please note Ms. Pepper's comment that we don't want to deal with emissions in our area. The electricity that will be dedicated to these e-vehicles will come from generation subject to NIMBY. So, let others deal with it, something like "let them eat cake".
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With all due respect, please note Ms. Pepper's comment that we don't want to deal with emissions in our area. The electricity that will be dedicated to these e-vehicles will come from generation subject to NIMBY. So, let others deal with it, something like "let them eat cake".
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