Uber Tesla Model 3 Rental and what to expect | Uber Driver Lyft Driver 

Thank you bro, that was helpful

I went with a TesDriver like format in Texas. I worked out an agreement with a private party and I paid $325/wk for a Black on Black Model 3 Mid range. It was awesome. I even had access to both Uber and Lyft (Lux, Lux Black). After 8 months of using for Lyft and Uber I stepped up to a Model Y LR This put me in the Lyft XL, Black XL, Lux and Lux Black all for the negotiated price of $375/wk. still below the Uber/Hertz Model 3 rental.

11:25 while it's breaking, it's also sending energy back to the battery so you get more range

I liked your review on this.

great video -:) mad editing skills my friend.

I love ridesharing on the teslas...key is free charging while you sleep!

8:00 You can click the lightning button on the right side of the screen and it will show you all the chargers without having to click into navigation

Thanks for the info. Question? Do you pay for the deposit and full week when you go piçk up the car or just the deposit and you pay for the car when you turn it back in?

Nicely done Vinny, 14 Cents per Kw on the off peak supercharger is an incredibly low rate. You can’t go wrong with at. Don’t forget to engage ‘Car wash’ mode before washing the car or entering a car wash. Take care and take money👍

Yooooo! What’s those 2 phone mounts you were using?

Thank you - what about getting the extra insurance?

Slip start turns off the traction control so you can accelerate fully even if the traction is off

Thanks for the video Vinny 🙌

O.K. Appreciate the video. Because UBER is trying to move drivers toward Electric Vehicles, EVs. For their benefit, not yours. I'm talking from Los Angeles. I'm a 30 year limo driver. UBER since 2013. Clearly over 20,000 rides. I rented a Tesla from Hertz in Los Angeles from June 2022 to August 2022. 3 months. 90 days. A good amount of time to evaluate this "rideshare product". And my conclusion is........... THIS UBER-HERTZ-TESLA PRODUCT IS NO GOOD. First off, the cost, $500 per week! Are you kidding me?! Just ridiculous when a fulltime UBER driver in a big busy market like Los Angeles can barely make $1000 per week BEFORE expenses. I had HERTZ charge me $78! out of the blue for HOV highway use, when the car was supposed to be HOV approved. HERTZ will charge you hidden cost like this. This video talks a lot, almost, too much, about the Tesla 3 car itself. As a professional driver, it's just a car. The doors open and close. It has seats! Shocking! It goes forward, it goes backward. Big shit. He doesn't talk about the realities of using this extremely expensive bad product for rideshare. I've driven everything from 1993 Lincoln Towncars to Ford luggage vans, including stretch limousines for 20 years. I can drive anything. Let's get to the NEGATIVES of the Tesla 3: 1. Cost. $500 per week. I pay $250 per week for a Prius from a limousine company to make real money using UBER and now LYFT. Any driver that signs up for the UBER, HERTZ, TESLA, nightmare is going to be over paying by about $250 per week. Money that should stay in your pocket. 2. No spare tire. During my second week in the Tesla 3, I got a flat tire on the freeway in Downtown Los Angeles. After 2 hours of waiting, Hertz road side service sent me an amateur roadside mechanic that thought he was just going to change a spare tire! He didn't know that Tesla does not have a spare. And the Tesla can only be towed by a FLATBED TOW TRUCK. It cannot be dragged by a hitch tow truck because it will damage the rear axle where the electronic motor is. So, I waited another 2 hours for a flat bed tow truck. 4 hours waiting for a tow to the Pep Boys garage 3 miles away. Lucky me!!! Lost $150 in rideshare income due to no spare. 3. Charging. Is an absolute joke. First off, the charging network is thin and weak. There are only about 20 super-chargers in all of Los Angeles. A city of 4 million people. You do the math. Every charging station is different. They are hard to find and even more difficult to use. Downtown L.A. only has ONE station. On Alameda, on the 7th floor of a parking structure. If you go to the West Hollywood station on Sunset Blvd, there is a waiting line of 4 cars in front of you at 3am! Hopefully, you are not in a hurry to make money. I've seen Teslas being towed into charging stations. People that waited to long before their car died on them. If you choose the station at the Americana in Glendale, it's on the 7th level of the parking structure, and you have to pay $2 to exit on your way out. Yes, you have to pay a Billionaire, Caruso, $2 to use his parking structure to charge your expensive Tesla. 4. Luggage. 70 percent of limo work is the airport. Which means, a lot of luggage. The Tesla 3 was not designed for rideshare work. The rear trunk is deep and narrow. Which means that a large hard case cannot be turned upside. It has to lie flat. Which limits the trunk space usage. The front trunk, FRUNK, is just some stupid piece of ignorant engineering. It can only handle a small soft medium sized bag. It cannot fit a hard case of any kind. 5. Range. DON'T GET ME STARTED ON RANGE ANXIETY!!! The Tesla 3 can only go about 260 miles on a full charge. I usually drive 200 to 300 miles per shift in a hybrid Prius. I turn $20 of gas into $200 of gross income. That is my formula. If, you are at 100 miles of available miles in a Tesla 3, you are LOW on miles. You have to spend 1 hour to locate, drive to, wait, and charge a Tesla. 1 hour in which you are NOT making any money. As a fulltime driver, I had to do this TESLA HUSLTLE twice per shift. So, I lost 2 hours of earnings to keep the car charged for work. NOT WORTH IT. 6. 100 mile rides. As a professional driver, I cover a huge range of Southern California. I've done UBER rides to San Diego (very common), Bakersfield, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara. But, the Tesla 3 driving range LIMITS my commitment to these 100 mile rides. I had to decline several San Diego rides because I had no confidence in the San Diego charging network. I don't know one bit about how where they are, or how to access them. or how long to wait. I'm not from San Diego! 7. After my 3 month trial, UBER sent me a link to do a user survey. I didn't bother to answer. The only answer is that I have NOT returned to UBER/HERTZ/TESLA to rent again. I returned to my 10 year limo partners to rent a Prius V for $250/week and make my money through them. Please, do your research. UBER-HERTZ-TESLA is a scam. Use your own car if possible. ---Eddy from Hollywood California.

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Thanks brother, I really appreciate your advice. I am due to commence uber in a few months once I get my licence and seriously considering a tesla to give me more options and your suggestion for a model y makes sense. I now have to find a reasonably priced rental model y to make the sums work as here in the UK uber drivers are making around £100 per day and if the rental is £400 then it doesn't work. So I gotta shop around.

Good 👍 video Eddie should’ve help you out since he had one before

Thats the same exact price im paying to rent a Chevy Bolt thru Avis except you dont have to put down a security deposit. You're gonna get that deposit back so im not worried about them hold on to $200. The convenience of only having to wait 15 minutes for the Tesla to charge is what interests me. I know im Missing Out on MONEY having to wait an hour for this BOLT to charge.

Holy cow you got some nice supercharger rates $.14/kw!

Great video about the Tesla rental. My big problem with the model three is that pretty much I don’t fit. I’d have to have the seat the whole way back and then it takes up a lot of space in the back because I know it’s not that large back there. My second problem with the Tesla whether it’s model three or Y or X is luggage space. I do a lot of airport locally And I carry golf clubs with luggage. It’s usually big luggage too so that’s a big problem in a tesla as far as I can tell. Also, I would need the six seat version for XL and we all know that the six seats open decreases luggage space. That’s problem number two with limited luggage space for big suitcases. Maybe some Verison down the road would be better but I did move to a 2023 Toyota sienna.

4:22 I am glad I never had to take it in for service when I did rent

Good info viny doing Uber with Tesla as a rental may b for some n not . I used Elantra in 2015/16 n 17 . Da Tesla might be better to do this in . Maintenance wise . N better for riders to experience in . I still did ok but now my car with 268k miles needs lot of repairs since 2017. I have not sis this work since still drive da car n ya know o told da office work when I did door dash to buy this stock sue ya think so I said . Now I didn’t have da money to do it ya know bills to take care of . Looking back I wish I did at least for $100.00

Its expensive as shit indeed💪🙏appreciate the video my g

How long does the charge to 80 % from 0 take at a Tesla Level 3 super charger?

Do you have to pay the first week in advance plus the deposit? When I rented through Lyft Xpress, it was only the security deposit.

5:27 Don't use the manual release unless it is an emergency you will damage the door and the glass over time.

how do you get those many platforms on UBER i'm Uber platinum currently and only been driving about a month

per my research into the Teslas for Uber, Model Y does not give you any extra platforms on Uber. All Teslas have the same platform levels. Which, makes NO sense, but it is what it is.

Might I suggest purchasing one...

I drove 43 mintes with a reservation in hand, showed up 30 minutes early and still got told they didn't have a Tesla as it was first come first serve even with a reservation WTF!!!

Can we use With Lyft? Cause Uber alone would be hard right?

How much range is reduced from the battery running the air conditioner?

how long does the battery last working 10-12 hrs?

South Florida Ron ❤😂🎉

Nobody gets rich driving Uber, that you can count on.

3:16 that 30 ride requirement is trash they are already getting paid at that point they are just greedy

Does it require a credit check when you rent through Uber?

All we wanted to hear was the benefit of having it how much you losing on having it ❤

I’ve been renting with dania beach with a Tesla for a year now. Do you like it now?

They claim 250kw super chargers 150kw max I saw and only for 10 mins then would drop to 40 kw, defiitly a learning curve to charging...

3:16 I admit I also said show up early 😅 but they run the rentals like a sham office here.

14:57 I see your problem right here you got an apple phone 😂

10:17 I have had my car jump the belt before not fun

It’s stupid to drive a Tesla 240 mile car for rideshare

Feels like forklifts 😅

12:32 😂

Vinny its South Florida Ron I Drove The 3 For A While, Until They Started Over Charging me From Time To Time...Be vCareful Brother...And You Dont Have to Fill Up All The Time Only What you Need To Get You Through the Shift, Because that Will Start To Add Up When Charging...Turn Off Your Dome Light During the Day You Dont Need it...Everything Runs Off That Battery...Certain Times of The Day Its Cheaper Like After 12 Midnight To About 4am The Rest of The Day Your SCREWED Its A Big $$$Charge...Take it Back Your Not Gonna Get What We Thought We Were Gonna Get Pertaining To The Fancy Calls..Example Lets Say Your Making 1k A Week If That Now Sub. Rental 400 Now Sub. Charging 200wk...God Luck Brother...

Tesla has 5 models, im assuming you drove the lowest

They actually clean yours lol

Whenever I drive a Tesla it feels like driving a kitchen cabinet

Pain in the ass expensive as can be Uber does not offer good rides and you will be in bankruptcy court with there program it starts getting old when you are not making money

This is a Tesla review not the downs and ups for the Rental... Downvote this video