We charge cents per mile, think anywhere from ten cents up to as much as 30 cents per mile for use of the car. The virtual power plant idea, we don't yet have, but is a kind of upcoming capability that electric cars will have. We are going after high mileage drivers. And if you count to take the intersection of drive a lot and put a lot of miles on, and there are electric cars to day, which is basely sedans. There aren't really a lot of pick up drugs,. That intersection is car sharing and ride sharing and gig delivery.
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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