Shai Agassi has a plan.

[caramida]

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?seriesid=f2949e45-1545-444f-b6aa-f03349e1966a&p=1&ipp=15&category=

Shai Agassi, Founder & CEO of Better Place has an idea about how to build an electric car infrastructure with a cell-phone economic model. Of course the words cell-phone model don't describe it quite right. Anyway, the link above is a link to both audio and video for the event where he describes it. You can download it to your iPod, you can set it to play in the background, whatever. Somebody please watch it and help me figure out a reason to not be passionate about this stuff.

Edited: There's an article in last week's NYTimes about this, too.

Comments

Re: Better Place is a clever name.

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Even if he's not the guy to do it here in the States, some success in a market like Israel (which is admittedly just about perfect for their model) may very well tip things in the direction of further innovation. I recognize that your reservations are all good solid ones, but I am also pleased to see that there are people making real serious attempts to address the problems in a straightforward way, rather than just waiting and hoping that it all works out.