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

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/09/San_Francisco_Mayor_Gavin_Newsom_Cities_and_Time

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.

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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 U.S."

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. Newsom was reelected in the November 7 2007 mayoral election with 72 percent of the vote.

On April 21, 2009, Newsom declared his candidacy in California's 2010 gubernatorial election.

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[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!

[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.

[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]

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]

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]

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.