Sunday, May 24, 2009

The end of oil looks a lot like a cell phone contract*

but the phone is an electric car, the anytime minutes are anywhere miles, and if you use more than you paid for, they pay you**.

* (Google Video 26 min) Shai Agassi Speaks in Washington, DC
** (pop-up audio 47 min) Shai Agasi in On Point interview with Jane Clayson April 24, 2009.

1 Comments:

At Sun May 24, 01:13:00 AM EDT, Blogger Gumbinator said...

I think they need to fill in the floor of this drive through battery swap station. Let there be, under that changing shuttle, an elevator platform that is up when the car enters, comes down when the car is stopped, lets the battery-swapping shuttle ride onto and off it on embedded tracks like a good railroad crossing, and goes back up before the car rolls away.

 

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