We need to get to about 200 million electric vehicles in the road world wide by 20 30. That's only eight years away, and then continue to ramp up from there. On that trajectory, that's a huge change. Even with what g m and ford and v w were saying, v w said 85 billion. I think th they're all tens of billions. And talking about the end of the internal combustion engine and the kind of the great electrification after a century of theinternal combustion engine is not enough. It would still take ten to 15 years before you can turn over the whole fleet,. Just because people aren't gong to sell a perfectly good car even if it's
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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