{"id":115692,"date":"2020-11-10T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-first-tesla-taxi-in-nyc-just-hit-the-streets-as-the-citys-only-electric-yellow-cab-the-plan-is-for-hundreds-more-to-join-it"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:23:56","slug":"the-first-tesla-taxi-in-nyc-just-hit-the-streets-as-the-citys-only-electric-yellow-cab-the-plan-is-for-hundreds-more-to-join-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-first-tesla-taxi-in-nyc-just-hit-the-streets-as-the-citys-only-electric-yellow-cab-the-plan-is-for-hundreds-more-to-join-it","title":{"rendered":"The first Tesla taxi in NYC just hit the streets as the city\u2019s only electric yellow cab. The plan is for hundreds more to join it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-tesla-taxi-in-nyc-just-hit-the-streets-as-the-citys-only-electric-yellow-cab-the-plan-is-for-hundreds-more-to-join-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez thinks that Tesla taxis could help reinvigorate the city\u2019s yellow-cab industry, which has taken a major hit from ride-hailing services like Uber, Via, and Lyft. He also predicts that the city could, for sustainability reasons, start mandating electric cabs, so he\u2019s looking to get ahead of the curve, even if the commercial charging infrastructure isn\u2019t quite there yet.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/experts-rank-tesla-waymo-other-self-driving-car-power-players-2020-6?r=tl-sub\">Tesla has released \u2018full self-driving\u2019 in beta \u2014 here\u2019s how experts rank it, Waymo and 16 other power players in the world of self-driving cars<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drive Sally plans to bring hundreds of Teslas to New York\u2019s streets in the near future, but for now, the company is still working out the kinks. Gonzalez suspects that the EVs may be better suited for for-hire \u201cblack cars\u201d than yellow cabs, and he also said that the more-spacious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tesla-model-y-seven-seater-elon-musk-production-november-2020-10\">Model Y<\/a> would likely work better as a cab than the Model 3, but they\u2019re still too expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzalez thinks that Tesla taxis could help reinvigorate the city\u2019s yellow-cab industry, which has taken a major hit from ride-hailing services like Uber, Via, and Lyft. He also predicts that the city could, for sustainability reasons, start mandating electric cabs, so he\u2019s looking to get ahead of the curve, even if the commercial charging infrastructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}