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Gavin Newsom: Can Electric Car Makers Learn from Cell Phone Innovations?
By admin | August 11, 2010
Complete video at: fora.tv San Francisco Mayor (and 2010 California gubernatorial candidate) Gavin Newsom describes innovative ways of thinking about electric cars. He suggests a pricing plan for electric cars modeled after cell phone pricing plans. “Instead of buying minutes, you buy miles,” says Newsom. —– San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is a strong advocate for sustainable urban planning and green business practices; he lead San Francisco to join the Kyoto Protocol, created significant incentives for solar power installation through the GoSolarSF program, and is working on an ambitious plan to make SF the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the US” He discusses his ideas and plans for shaping the growth of cities during these turbulent times. – The Long Now Foundation Gavin Christopher Newsom is the current mayor of San Francisco. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco’s youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom graduated in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco’s Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated Matt Gonzalez by 6% in his race for mayor in 2003 …
Topics: electric cars | 25 Comments »
August 12th, 2010 at 12:23 am
What? Do you believe this now they want us to be dependent on them, in order to switch out your battery you have to buy there car, you lose the ability of deciding what kind of car you want. Sounds like OPEC to me, pay them for miles, I’ll bet that if you don’t use them in a month you lose them. He did say CELL PHONE right! All the big names are coming out with electric cars, along with others you still can chose! O ya and miles are not a problem I only drive 30m a day and that’s a lot!
August 12th, 2010 at 12:51 am
I just heard Gavin is thinking about dropping out of the race.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Their working on different concepts, Great job.
August 12th, 2010 at 2:18 am
excellent work!
August 12th, 2010 at 3:16 am
no there is a machine, like a car wash. which you drive into, it uses a big hydraulic arm to take the battery into an underground charging facility right below the station. At which point your car moves forward on a moving platform to another hydraulic arm which puts a new battery in. Its already being done in Israel.
August 12th, 2010 at 3:46 am
But there are hundreds of kilos worth of high tech batteries. They would cost an assload, and would not be something you just “pop out”.
August 12th, 2010 at 3:48 am
they have, “charging stations” wherein you drive in and it pops your battery out to replace it with a new one. You would pay a monthly subscription to the service and get X number of replacements a month. You would also be able to plug your car into a power outlet and that is free
August 12th, 2010 at 3:58 am
I briefly checked their website out. They rely on charging batteries, but for trips over 100 miles they say they can change batteries, but don’t explain how.
I am very skeptical about this. I am virtually certain that it’s not going to happen like that.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:04 am
check out the better place project. They have infact figured that problem out and made deals with several car manufacturers to fix that by making replaceable car batteries. And cars which support that technology. Isreal has already started outfitting the country.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:30 am
If you had studied Project Better Place further would have realised the principle.
Yes I do know how electric cars work.
I would not have expected any other comments from some Luddite.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:42 am
You obviously have no clue how electric cars work, at all. There are usually many, many batteries formed in packs with a combined weight of several hundred kilos. The batteries are high tech, and very expensive.
Of course I couldn’t expect this level of knowledge of someone with the IQ of a deck chair.
If you would like to see an example, Search google images for Acp_tzero_dsc00309.jpg
Dipshit.
August 12th, 2010 at 5:14 am
Yes Retard
That’s exactly what he is saying.
Exactly what you do with your gas guzzler, you get new petrol when you fill it up.
DUH!
August 12th, 2010 at 5:20 am
The excellent and interesting video !
5*****
Thanks for share ubuibiok !
August 12th, 2010 at 5:44 am
Is this retard actually saying that you get a new battery for your car at the new gas stations?
August 12th, 2010 at 5:55 am
What a smarmy git.
That you can just give away the car for free if you copy the mobile phones business model. Doesnt work like that, you cant just copy the business model and expect the technology that underlies it to work the same. Ridiculous.
August 12th, 2010 at 6:18 am
ubuibiok, that’s an excellent question. I always buy a car I enjoyed renting while on vacation. Check this out:
youtube. com/watch?v=FcoJt2KLC9k
and then betterplace. com
Newsom 4Gov 4 A Better CA
August 12th, 2010 at 6:26 am
just to let know science made your computer science made planes science made alot of stuff science helps us everyday
just to let you know not everyone is a mentonite
which they do not go with the modern day world because it is their tradition and what not … THEY are anti-science if you think about it but nothing hateful but you are wrong america revovles around science except the nation looks the other way when it comes to cars and gas… they do not want to let go
August 12th, 2010 at 7:25 am
He will be!
August 12th, 2010 at 7:57 am
putittogether, Your GOP Repulsive propaganda no longer works. Don’t waste your bad breath.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:03 am
sugarpuddin88, that’s why Israel is doing it first and Gavin wants it. Check out:
youtube. com/watch?v=FcoJt2KLC9k
and then betterplace. com
BTW, Gavin just announced he is running for Gov of California.
Newsom 4Gov 4 A Better CA.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:22 am
kshackleton
I’m not so sure going 40 miles a charge is worthy the price
There are technologies that use both the battery; and enzymes produce gas which is also used by the same platform
It is difficult when America’s government has been legally bribed by the oil manufacturers; and with America being an anti-science nation
August 12th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Which Auto rental company will be the first to move in this direction , tell me something I don’t know…….
August 12th, 2010 at 9:11 am
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August 12th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Good thing for the people about automobile is, it’s one thing does all device.
So, people end up in using it for half a mile drive to get to a neighborhood store. They get used to it and don’t think about there are other alternatives.
It’s basically becoming a gas powered wheel chair.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Automobile or electric cars have limited use.
It’s not a good short distance device in inner city. It makes congestion, needs a lot of space for parking. It requires big network of roads which often hurts the eco-system
It’s not a good for long distance trip. Train, specially modern high speed models make far quicker and safer trips. And longer distance, plane is a better choice.
If you live in a country, where it takes 50 miles of driving to get to a store, then automobile make sense.