Gavin Newsom: Can Electric Car Makers Learn from Cell Phone Innovations?

[libral3]

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!

[sharon102645]

Their working on different concepts, Great job.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[Tadek59]

The excellent and interesting video !

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Thanks for share ubuibiok !

[fatmanprime]

Is this retard actually saying that you get a new battery for your car at the new gas stations?

[Odziz]

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!

[fatmanprime]

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.

[Odziz]

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.

[joegocal]

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.

[fatmanprime]

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.

[joegocal]

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

[fatmanprime]

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".

[joegocal]

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.

[Saktoth]

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.

[ubuibiok]

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[ubuibiok]

Which Auto rental company will be the first to move in this direction , tell me something I don't know.......

[OneoftheImmortals]

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

[allgoo19]

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.

[allgoo19]

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.

[ossowiecki]

hallelujah, all that's missing in this sermon is a choir. I'm talking about his presentation. why does he look and speak like a preacher...I don't trust him.

[putittogether]

Electric cars are BAD for the environment! They are DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY. It is a CON. Most power plants burn COAL. Very dirty, lots of bad gasses come from coal power plants. In fact it is a WAIST of energy a BIG waist, you see power transmitted over power lines LOSE lots of power just in the transmission process!! Electric cars are WORSE than a gas efficient car.!

[prognost]

Yes, but electric cars will be necessary to reach zero emissions in the long term. Pursued in concert with a renewable energy policy (as California and is doing) the problem you bring up disappears. As a bonus, we will then already have the infrastructure for electric vehicles.

[kshackleton]

The best gas-powered car converts energy to motion at an efficiency of 20%. Coal-fired plants do much better. Also, as we move toward electrical generation that is less dependent on coal and makes use of renewable sources, the electric cars will get better and better.

[Shynaku]

In the same vein as the others, we are moving, more and more, towards non-coal based power. Essentially we're making an investment for the future by setting up the infrastructure for electric cars right now.

[OneoftheImmortals]

putittogether, Your GOP Repulsive propaganda no longer works. Don't waste your bad breath.

[fucksatanism]

Can I send naked pictures of my car to other cars?

[billybobby800]

now....why isnt this guy the fucken governor?

[justtwentyoeight]

He's not

[OneoftheImmortals]

He will be!

[sugarpuddin88]

Gimme a Break!

Government protectionists bought up all the successful electric cars in the 90s and ground them to junk metal!

[prognost]

Therefore the electric car as a concept and business opportunity is dead forever?

[kshackleton]

Chevy Volt....it will be offered for sale in 2010.

[sugarpuddin88]

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

[OneoftheImmortals]

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.

[n8iveidiot13]

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