Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
May 5, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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www.ted.com Forget about the hybrid auto — Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
“…Because if we don’t, we will lose our economy right after we lost our morality.”
This is a nice idea, but an infrastructure nightmare. People don’t go more than 120 miles a day probably. But if they want to, they want to be able to. And we don’t make batteries. We’ll switch from dependence on the Middle East to dependence on Asian countries. Batteries are the only reason we haven’t switched.
totally agree!!!!
Guys Shai try to save the world stop talking about if he from Israel or from marroko or Iraq Go SHAI Go
he is right but bed
his idae is going to happen in israel in 2016 but thare is a tax for oil and now the govramnt cant take tex and thay dont undarstand it …
so stupid…
rock and roll shai, steam roll this project and save the world.
cold fusion ? when where?
Forget this… We’ve just cracked Cold Fusion!
Bye Bye Oil, gas, and the energy problem!
watch?v=F4I5mgBKPZY
not iraqi but marrokan…
We forget one important thing, that a big, fuel devouring, heavy, engine-roaring car is a “penis enlargement” for many douchebag drivers. How would you convince such a guy, to change his monster pickup, to a light, small, quiet electric car? Many people will cling to their anachronistic fossil fuel cars, like to religious artifacts. One in five humans in developed world is not aware that It’s not 90′ties anymore.
When his company puts battery stations where i go then i will consider. The oil companys have already made the effort to market oil to me.
He is half iraqi.
Go Agassi go! =)
I’d buy some shares if I weren’t so broke.
Fuck Saudia Arabia.
if you are a speaker and are trying to be taken seriously he should not throw in the occasional white lies.
4 minutes of talk in 20 minutes,
oh god
he’s wearing black
another one : )
don’t forget.. the oil is the ‘blood’ of the earth.
oxygen is the breath
animals & us are it’s creative beauty
oh yeah..
and if this ‘new’ way turns out to be another wrong way to go… we won’t know it for a ‘couple’ years
but we STILL end up stopping ‘the way’ we’re goin now
y’know the same amount of money making is STILL there,
don’t ‘THEY’ realize this ?
i love my grand-children !
ps: (only) now the slaves are behind the wall ?
this kicks AZZ !!
ok… so pretend this world is STILL motivated by money… let’s give the ’sources’ of the energy… ie: oil co’s, paper co’s etc… 5-10 years closed market… so that they are the only 1’s allowed 2 convert over.. then 5-10 MORE years closed market to ‘reap the benfits’ from the better resource. then, every1 can be converted to better cars, clothes, papers, etc… ??? please ????
What this guy said about hydrogen is wrong. It only causes more waste if you use polluting energy to make it. We make it with solar and wind power. How can it pollute? The only by product of hydrogen is water. On alcohol, we found that Jerusalem artichokes have 10 times the amount of starch that corn has. We run our internal combustion engines on alcohol but we can charge most electric cars with our windmills. We have absolutely no need for the electric company or the oil companies.
“Who Killed the Electric Car” <— Watch It!
Unfortunately, the oil companies are some of the most powerful people in the world…
We can shut them down with electric cars, but we’ll need to perform the conversions ourselves… Just remember that “lithium ion” are the best batteries out there (not reactive like regular lithium batteries) Also if you use a “spinel” crystal anode, you can cut the charge time down to around 10 minutes!!!
Don’t wait for the future, grab hold of it today!
I personally know US service center companies that deal with gas pumps and service stations are looking at his invention for transitioning out of gas in the next 20-50 years. They’ve already started the ground work on many nuclear power plants, in Texas, Florida, and some other northern states, your being unaware of it doesn’t mean its not happening it only means you’re ignorant.
lol americans
you only need 6% extra energy produced by solar or wind. that is nothing. and you do not need it all in one year. an increase of 1% per year is enough. You guys in the US have plenty of wind and solar that you can use.
god you are talking bull.
sweet, nice plans
Hey buddy. Get off of my planet.