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Boise City, ID

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This is a planning tool, not a prediction. Of the 78 numbers behind a season in Boise City, 28 are published figures, 32 are worked out from published figures, and 18 are our own estimates. 41 of them were read straight out of a federal file that covers every city in the country, so there was no citation to trust and no page to misread. You can change any of them. Your result is only as good as the numbers you agree with.

How long until you have your $10,000 back
3.5 months
After 90 days the project is worth
$9,314
Against the $10,000 you put in
-$686
This projects the first 90 days forward in a straight line. Early months carry start-up drag, so later ones may run better. It is a direction, not a date.

Where the money goes on day one

The project is behind before the car turns a wheel. That is true in every town on this list, and it is the hole the months above are measured against.

You put in$10,000
Hard costs, paid once
Down payment on a $28,900 car -$2,900
Installing home charging -$2,250
Permits and onboardingplaceholder -$650
Money left to operate on$4,200
Plus the car equity. You paid $28,900, but it would only fetch $27,166 the moment it is yours, and you owe $26,000 of that +$1,166
What the project is worth on day one$5,366

The project is $4,634 down before the first fare: $2,900 genuinely spent, and $1,734 that vanished the moment the car stopped being new.

Two honest caveats. The permit figure is marked placeholder because the model invents it — the obligation is real, the amount is not researched. And nothing here counts sales tax, excise, title or registration on the purchase, which vary by state and this model does not yet carry, so every figure is a best case.

What comes off every fare before you see it

The rider pays100%
The network takesour estimate −30%
Reaches the business70%

That 30% comes off the top — before energy, cleaning, insurance, the depot or the loan payment. Every figure on this page is already after it.

Tesla has published no owner-operator revenue share for Robotaxi, anywhere, so this is an expectation rather than a reported figure. 30% is roughly what the established ride-hail platforms take and what people following the rollout broadly expect. It is the largest single lever in the whole model: at 25% instead, the same season leaves about 7% more in your hand — more than any driving decision you can make. Fares also settle 7 days after they are earned.

People
238,429
Ada County
Rides a day
4,093
all operators, town-wide
Airport
2.4 mi
worked out
Fast charging
$0.60
per kWh, public

Why this town is in the game

Asked for by Dave, as one of eight towns added overnight to put states on the ladder that had none. Its airport sits 2.4 miles from the center, the third-closest of the twenty-nine, so the airport run that carries other towns barely moves the meter here. The size is misleading in the other direction: 238,429 people but only 17.2 rides a day per thousand residents, a car-owning metro rather than a riding one. Read its row with the model's limit in mind -- the research calls Boise a multi-district metro and the simulation has no multi-district geometry, so it is run as a single service area.

Other lenses on Boise City, ID

The same research pack feeds more than one simulator. ⚡ A two-stall DC fast-charging site does not pay here under the default assumptions: about 7.1 stops a day against a break-even of 10.2, 13 public fast-charging sites already within 10 miles, payback never.

See the arithmetic and change the assumptions →

Counted again from the US DOE station list by a second route — American Adventurer’s copy of the same 2026-09-16 AFDC snapshot, filtered the same way (open, public, unrestricted, at least one DC fast port):

🧺 A coin laundromat does not pay here under the default assumptions: about 1,051 laundromat households inside 1.5 miles (no car, renters, owners), 560 loads a week (the store is full) against a break-even of 581, attended 84 hours a week at the local $17.45 wage, payback 15.6 years. Run unattended, nothing else changed, it pays back: payback 2.9 years.

See the arithmetic and change the assumptions →

OpenStreetMap maps 1 laundromat within 1.5 miles of the town centre as of 2026-07-03. That is a floor, not a survey: it counts what somebody has mapped, and mapping coverage varies enormously between towns. The model above is still splitting demand with its own editable estimate of 3 stores, which is what the payback figure rests on; move that one for the town you know. Laundromat locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, via American Adventurer.

Camping near Boise City, ID

10 public-land camps within 30 straight-line miles of the town center in the American Adventurer record: 8 free · 2 fee · 0 unpriced.

3 of them carry an agency season record; on 2026-09-17, 3 read open. The other 7 have no record, and no record is not “open”.

Nearest listed-open DC fast charger to a free camp: 20.6 mi straight-line — Boise, ID - North Orchard Street - Tesla Supercharger (NACS (Tesla)), per the US DOE station list. “Listed open” is the list’s word; check the network before you count on it.

Closest to the town center

The full list, as JSON → · Browse every camp in Idaho → · The map, centered here with a 30-mile ring →

Data: American Adventurer (davelalande.com), built 2026-09-18T07:30:56Z; read 2026-09-18. Straight-line miles from the Census town center, not driving distance; the American Adventurer record, not every campground.

What this row rests on

78 numbers describe this town. Every one of them says where it came from.

28 published by somebody else 32 worked out from those 18 our own estimates
Citations we went back and checked
12 held / 3 failed
Anything that failed was demoted to an estimate and says so.
What we could not find out
1
  • rides_per_day: the five named sources were checked and none publishes a trip count for this city, so the estimate stands on its own arithmetic

Some of the numbers, and where they came from

A sample. The whole pack is in the data API.

Rides a day, whole townour estimate4,093 rides/day
Total app-hailed trips a day across every operator in the city -- the pool your fleet competes for a share of, not the number you will get. no published figure we could verify
Average paid trip lengthour estimate5.2 miles
Nobody publishes Boise ride-hail trip lengths; 5.2 miles is reasoned from the city's own 86.101 sq mi land area, the 4-mile airport-to-downtown hop Uber lists, and the short 18.9-minute mean commute. no published figure we could verify
Passengers boarding a yearpublished2,475,370 enplanements/year
FAA calendar year 2024 ENPLANEMENTS -- passengers BOARDING, which is about half of the arrivals-plus-departures figure an airport press release quotes. This is the federal count, read out of the FAA's own file. FAA, CY2024 Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for U.S. Airports
Overnight electricityworked out0.0962 $/kWh
Idaho Power Schedule 5 (optional residential Time-of-Use Plan, effective 2026-01-01) prices every midnight–06:00 hour as Off-Peak in both seasons; this is that Off-Peak energy charge, month-weighted, plus PCA, residential FCA, kWh tax, BPA credit, 2.35% Energy
Evening electricityworked out0.1568 $/kWh
Clock window 16:00–midnight is not Idaho Power’s On-Peak. Summer On-Peak is only 7–11 p.m. (Mid-Peak 3–7 p.m.); non-summer On-Peak is 5–8 p.m. This blends those tariff prices over 16:00–24:00, then adds riders. Summer evenings are much dearer than the year-ble
Insurance on each car after the firstworked out196 $/month
What each additional vehicle adds to the premium. Lower than the first car because a fleet policy spreads the administrative part of a premium across the vehicles while the risk part scales with them -- which is part of why growing is the way out of the trap.
A small commercial bay, per monthworked out1,305 $/month
This is a derivation, not a local quote: a national published figure scaled by a published local index. Nobody publishes what a 1,500 square foot bay lets for in a town this size, because small commercial bays let privately, one handshake at a time, and no ind
A full interior cleanworked out75 $
This is a derivation, not a local quote: a national published figure scaled by a published local index. Nobody publishes a full interior detail in a town this size, because it is a manual service: keeping a price list current is work, and the price is whatever
Demand generatorsour estimate
St. Luke's Boise (flagship hospital, expanding toward 500+ beds); Saint Alphonsus Regional (381 licensed beds, Level II trauma); Boise State (28,519 students; 37,000-seat Albertsons Stadium; ExtraMile
These are the named places that actually concentrate trips: two large hospitals on opposite sides of town, the state's largest university and its stadium, the memory-chip campus, the capitol, and the joint civil-military airport. no published figure we could verify
Published paid-ride countour estimate0 trips/year
No public agency publishes a Boise or Ada County taxi/TNC trip total. Idaho state law preempts local TNC trip reporting, the airport publishes TNC fee revenue rather than trip counts, and the MPO survey predates scaled TNC service. no published figure we could verify

Researched 2026-09-14 on pipeline 2.1.0. Measured on sim 1.5.0, 12 seeds, median reported. A result is only comparable to another from the same sim version. The camping card is the American Adventurer record within 30 straight-line miles of the Census town center, read 2026-09-18: not driving distance, and not every campground.