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Lyft passengers will soon be able to request a ride in an electric or hybrid vehicle when they're planning a trip.
The ride-hailing company is launching the feature first in Seattle and then in other cities. The option will show up when passengers are choosing between available Lyft vehicles and it will not cost more for riders than traveling in a car with an internal combustion engine.
Lyft is also rolling out electric vehicles in Seattle and Atlanta in the fleet of cars that it rents to Lyft drivers who don't own their own vehicles.
The company met with driver and rider groups in the Pacific Northwest and "the number one thing on the list for passengers and for drivers was green vehicles," said Jon McNeill, chief operating officer of Lyft.
Does requesting an electric car reduce your personal carbon footprint that much after having flown into town on a 747?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday February 07 2019, @06:02AM (1 child)
Fuel costs are of great concern to the airlines so the aircraft manufacturers invest heavily in fuel economy technologies, for example the graphite epoxy fuselage of the 787.
I don’t know about the 747 specifically but I once read that as a whole, one gallon of jet fuel transports one passenger sixty miles. Compare that to the most efficient gasoline cars.
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(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:26AM
> one gallon of jet fuel transports one passenger sixty miles. Compare that to the most efficient gasoline cars.
Jet fuel is far more similar to diesel than to gasoline when it comes to energy density (so much so military jets can ran on pump diesel in an emergency), so you should compare to the most efficient diesel cars.
A quick search gave me this: https://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car/54735/ford-focus-estate-1.5-tdci-style-econetic-105ps-diesel-manual-6-speed/ [nextgreencar.com]
Its an estate with 5 seats, with a lab-tested 85MPG (and a real life tested 60MPG). Assuming the "real life" MPG, one gallon of fuel can transport 5 passengers and their luggage sixty miles.
As Taxi drivers tend to buy the most efficient cars they can (because fuel is a business cost to them, which they want to minimise), the Taxi ride could well end up being far more fuel efficient than the plane ride there.