Lyft which is an app-based ride-booking service which is rolling out the new set of perks geared towards having more drivers into the electric vehicles.
This is a move which could come as the federal government has been offering a more generous tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicle which meets certain requirements. Many states as well as localities also have the incentive programs and are planning for the significant expansion of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
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In California, Uber and also Lyft are also facing state regulation that call for the emission cuts from the ride-booking services in years ahead.
Lyft has said on Monday that it is going to award the drivers in California in the $150 bonus if they compete close 50 trips in the week using the personal electric vehicle. That incentive is going to run through the December of 2024 and the drivers can keep receiving bonus until they hit $8,100. The drivers can only have one bonus payment every week.
Additionally, it has also been said by Lyft it had entered with charging company EVgo to get the US drivers discount of close to 45% on the standard charging rates, with savings could vary on the basis of factors such as location and time. And it announced the discounts and the pre-negotiated rates for home charging equipment and the installations with couple of different companies, Coil and Wallbox.
Lyft pledged a couple of years for having all the vehicles on the platform to go electric by the year 2030.
The company has dumped upward of the $45 million into campaigns for the failed measure on November Ballot of California that would have raised the taxes on the people earning more than $2 million every year for helping in paying for electric vehicle subsidies.