Lyft drivers who use EVs will get a $150 bonus if they complete 50 trips a week
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#66RNV)
Lyft drivers can get cash for driving an EV. Lyft, which has said it wants 100 percent" of the vehicles operating on its platform to be electric by 2030, is offering a new slate of incentives to drivers to get them to ditch their polluting, gas-powered vehicles for ones with zero tailpipe emissions.
Starting today, Lyft drivers in California who use an EV are eligible to receive a bonus of $150 if they complete 50 trips in a week - which translates to an extra $3 per trip. Drivers will need to register their EVs on Lyft's app before the end of 2023 in order to qualify for the bonus. And they can keep raking in $150 per week until they hit the bonus maximum of $8,100.
Only drivers in California are eligible for the Lyft EV challenge, the company says. As the largest market for...