I think one of TeslaTom's subscriber is a Tesla uber driver. If you're free, maybe just tune in on Thursday 9PM (Sydney time) and ask the question - or even get his personal contact, his name escapes me for the moment, unfortunately.
Yeah, that'd be me.
You need to look into what Uber drivers make in your city. We can't help with that. Takings vary wildly based on time of day, day of week, weather, lockdown rules, locale etc. I do most of my driving in Wollongong while passing between Canberra and Sydney. Earnings there are kinda weak, but it's less stressful than Sydney roads, Sydney traffic.
Here's a brain dump, in no particular order.
In Wollongong my gross takings are next to nothing most of the day mid-week, or about $35/hr on busier hours Friday/Saturday afternoons through til graveyards, and about $50/hr Saturday/Sunday pre-dawn through to 9am (the hours you get the least credit points towards the Uber Pro petrol discounts!).
Nurse changeover hours are huge. Many nurses are from overseas, don't feel comfortable driving on our roads, and don't have parking at work anyway (especially nursing home nurses, hospital staff parking isn't so bad). So try to avoid being on long charging cycles around 6-8am, 3-5pm and 9-11pm when they're desperately waiting for a ride. I'm constantly getting them to work late as the drivers just aren't on the road.
A full charge on my (50kWh) SR+ costs me $6 at home (not that I live there), or $15 at Shell Cove, which represents about 340km. But that's a NCA battery. The LFP models have larger batteries, lower efficiency, but higher mileage. It'll change things a little, but not that much. My 340km represents 6 hours of driving. Usually I'll charge after 4-5 hours though. I had to cancel a run from Thirroul to Sydney Airport the weekend before the Kirrawee Supercharger opened, as I was at 19%.
These takings are slightly inflated as Uber currently gives us a rebate half of their commission, until at least the end of June, as an incentive to get more ZEVs in their fleet, prior to going full ZEV by 2040. They'll probably keep some sort of rebate going, but I doubt it'll be as lucrative.
Cleaning isn't a huge concern. I use the brush washes at 2 for $20-25 at various servos in the areas I drive. On average it's every other day. My paint is holding up really well.
In my old Yaris I'd have three riders a month vomit, one of which required an interior cleanup, and a few of those needed attention from the early morning auto detailers at Warilla (thank goodness for 7am cleaning!). One of the cleanups was from someone who had a literal hard-rimmed barf bag just 50cm in front of her face in a clear plastic pouch behind my headrest, and still managed to barf all over the back of my car. Meanwhile, in 22 months, in my Model 3, I've had four vomits, one of which required an interior cleanup. Even when you shove a barf bag in someone's face when they're clearly iffy (you get very aware of such things as an Uber driver) the Tesla doesn't set them off. And if they're borderline, you can do a stately slow drive really easily.
I've got mine on 7 years consumer finance, and I'm quite sure it'll last much longer than that. You get most of your GST credited back, depending on business use percentage, up to the LCT threshold) on your first BAS - which is fantastic. Whatever you do, do NOT let your accountant write the car off as an instant asset write-off. Use the standard depreciation method over 6 years (the standard timeframe for a luxury car in a taxi/rideshare). Instant write-off really comes back to bite you if you resell the car or write it off, as you have to pay full income tax on the takings! And all the instant writeoff will do is sit as a credit against your small business revenue for 4 years, or until your business takings eventually outweigh the writeoff (they won't, it's Uber, the earnings are trivial, and the writeoffs are enormous).
Just got to rotate tyres every 10,000km, replace them every 30-40,000km (about $140-$300 per tyre, my favourites are the Toyo Proxes C100 at $200ea) (in Wollongong I'll average 40-50km per hour online, as there are a lot of 80km/h roads). Flush the brake fluid every 2 years (about $190 I think - I'll get it done next month). Swap the cabin air filters every 6 months ($60 for a pair in the Tesla app). Use medical alcohol wipes on the wiper blades and swap the blades every year ($70 for a pair in the Tesla app).
