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Shai Agassi speaks about converting entire countries to electric transportation. Part 1 of 3
By admin | July 30, 2010
Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, his company is working on creating sustainable transportation systems. Hes teamed up with Renault-Nissans Carlos Ghosn to transform Israel into an electric car Mecca and hes working with other governments around the world to forge public/private partnerships that will tackle the transportation side of climate change You can follow his ambitious plans on his blog, The Long Tailpipe.
Topics: electric cars | 15 Comments »
July 30th, 2010 at 6:06 am
What is his solution for trucks and other oversize vehicles? A whole country with no oil? I don’t think so. Over 2000 products are made from oil. Even if you reduced the amount of oil used it would not reduce use down to 0.
July 30th, 2010 at 6:34 am
@no1saphead Get a life!
July 30th, 2010 at 7:26 am
How will the oil lobby try to make this not work?
July 30th, 2010 at 7:45 am
still it sounds to good to be true.Have you ever charged a car battery with a solar cell. Better opt for the big one.
July 30th, 2010 at 7:56 am
He said on many ocassions that all the energy for the electric cars will come from renewable sources: solar and wind.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:03 am
better place only uses 0 carbon energy. no carbon produced for this technology! google: better place!!
July 30th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Mark my words guys :
YES THIS WILL WORK
My own forecast :
2011 – >150k EVs
2012 – >400k EVs
2013 – >1M EVs
2014 – >3M EVs
2015 – >6M EVs
2017 – >9M EVs
2018 – >11M EVs
2019 – >15M EVs
Mark those figures!
July 30th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Electric cars will be part of the mix. There are problems with how the electricity is produced and there are enormous problems related to sourcing the lithium for advanced batteries and the costs to produce the power. But maybe we can shave several hundred billion off the defense dept. budget and give this technology a boost.
July 30th, 2010 at 9:18 am
You propably did not understand my reasoning – I fully support the change for alternative fuels. I said that making consumers adapt electric cars is a matter of changing behavious – psychologically path dependence. Higher fuel prices help change that behaviour.
By the way: The habit of calling people quickly “morons” without knowing them or reading their arguments properly is just justifying calling you a bad mannered person.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:16 am
He didnt say how much more coal it takes to run these electric cars.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:51 am
I have to agree that gasoline gives us the most bang for the buck and it’s incredible energy punch is unequaled but it’s just a problem on so many levels that we have to move on to other means of propulsion. But it’s more than just a question of the motor and tailpipe it’s about rethinking how our cities are configured and how we live.
July 30th, 2010 at 11:50 am
If you have the choice to buy a cheap electric car where you know you have fuel spots everywhere and the price per mileage is much less than a similar gasoline version of that vehicle and still you choose the gasoline car, then you my friend are a true moron.
I may be lazy and a creature of habit but i’m not a fool.
July 30th, 2010 at 11:59 am
I believe the major problem is not an infrastructure problem – the major problem is still to change the mindset why people should become engaged to change their habits. Oil prices cannot be high enough to change that – financial crisis shows how quickly people react when it affects their wallet
July 30th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
He is amazing. He shows we need a public/private partnership to get the fossilized oil companies out of the way so we can kick our addiction to fossil fuels. thanks for watching.
July 30th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
YES!!!
NO PLUG NO DEAL FOR ME!
no NGV
So great. This is it. Please USA wake up and stop using fossil fuel…respect dino ansestors!
Nancy