Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi
"How do you run an entire country without oil, with no new science, without government assistance, and in a time frame that's fast enough to get off oil before we run out of planet?" The answer, 41-year-old Shai Agassi says, is electric cars. He's not alone in his enthusiasm, but he may well have the most ambitious vision: battery-powered cars made by Renault-Nissan, a network of charging stations, and cell-phone-like pricing schemes. This may turn out to be more a creative sally than a killer app, but he's changing the conversation; Australia, Denmark, Israel, Canada, California's Bay Area, and Hawaii have signed on as beta testers.
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Shai Agassi
Car batteries, or their components, are completely recyclable. So your fears are groundless, as long as we educate the public about what to do with old batteries. Read up. http://www.roadandtravel.com/carcare/2005/batteryrecyclingtips.htm
Negative pompous people like you are a sad reality... Not to mention a dangerous one. Because you think you know but in fact you are a negative influence that knows nothing and only criticizes instead of offering a solution. People who think like you confirms we have a deep problem. stop being negative and work on a solution not on criticizing people who are working on solutions.
Let's just anticipate the dumps. Batteries are already a problem, more so than plastic water bottles. Consuming more and larger batteries faster to replace fossil fuel is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Self-destructive actions motivated purely by malice.
Think long term before you speak.
I am a 26yr old African-American male and I would fully support any new initiatives along this vein of going totally away from fossil fuels. I don't even want a hybrid!! Lets just realize the necessity of electric cars and embrace the change that is inevitable.
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Shai Agassi (Hebrew: שי אגסי, born 1968) is Founder and CEO of Better Place (formerly known as Project Better Place). Previously, Agassi was President of the Products and Technology Group (PTG) at SAP AG. He resigned from this position on March 28 effective April 1, 2007, to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change. In October 2007 he founded a company named Project Better Place, focusing on a green transportation infrastructure based on electric cars as an alternative to the current fossil fuel technology. -- Wikipedia (5/15/2009).
When fossil fuel cars replaced horses and buggies, it meant fewer people died from disease carried in horse waste, and life became more efficient. But it didn't eliminate the fact that all transportation modalities carry negative consequences. Electric carts won't, either. The consequences listed in comments below are facts, not negativity. Maybe life with electric cars will be better, maybe it won't. If they were a panacea, they would have been developed a long time ago. They are not new. Electric delivery trucks traveled the streets of our cities in the 1930s. Why did we switch away then? As for battery waste, that is a real issue, but more importantly, the performance and universal usability of electric cars is yet to proved. Till that happens, and they find a way to use less fossil fuel to generate electrical power, they will remain a marginal factor in the transportation mix.