The electric car can serve all these huge numbers of electric cars, and they are going to represent the largest store of electrons ever. And meantime, the grid needs to get to zero carbon. It needs to rely on cheap electricity, which is intermittent. So like bringing those three together, solar, winds that are intermittent and batteries in evis is one of the big challenges, but it's also one of the biggest economic opportunities.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sunil Paul to talk about how the “orange day” inspired him to start Spring Free (4:00), pioneering car-sharing and ride-sharing (9:50), why his company Sidecar didn’t work (14:35), the idea behind Spring Free (17:35), the Airbnb of electric vehicles (21:50), finding enough cars (27:40), getting billionaires to back him (32:10), applying the lessons form ride-sharing (33:00), building Spring Free as a consumer fintech brand (38:40), comparing the climate opportunity to the dawn of the web and his early days at AOL (40:00), and his worst day (47:25).
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