Springfree e v is a new company. The idea is make electric vehicles radically more fordable, and get the adoption rate to be so fast that we can get to gigaton scale impact. They take advantage of three economic disruptions of the electric car. First, they cost less to operate than a regular gas car. Second, they interact with grid in a smart way,. And third, electric cars last much longer than gasolene power cars.
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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