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I just got approved with Lyft in Evansville,In and am planning on driving in Louisville,Ky also. We have two vehicles a 2017 Honda CRV or a 2018 Toyota Highlander. The CRV gets about 6-7 more miles per gallon but only seats 5 so I could only use it for the regular Lyft but the Highlander seats 8 so I could use it for XL. I only want to run the odometer up on one of them and am just wondering if it’s worth the loss in miles per gallon to be able to do XL?
Regular Lyft or LyftXL?
Posted 5 years, 8 months ago
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Jeff Harrington (Bigkid2)
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Personally I would sign-up both cars on the system and you can choose which car you are using at the beginning of each shift. You will find that a regular X is by far the most popular during the week and XL is more popular on weekends when groups go out to events/party etc... You'll still most likely find that only about 1 in 10 ride requests are XL unless you're working around events where "groups" of people attended a game or concert together.
On Uber you can select whether to be X or xl exclusively at any point during your shift. Keep in mind that Uber takes 28% on XL rides, so while you make more they also take more!!!