Shai Agassi - Better Place
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Better Place's Shai Agassi, speaking at the APEC meeting in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 15, 2011. (Photo: Brad Berman.) In July, I had the opportunity to test Europe’s first electric car battery-swap station just outside Copenhagen.Better Place taps China in bid to take over the world, more or less
If a supervillain wanted to roll out a plan to turn the planet's car infrastructure on its head, he could hardly do better than the deal that Israeli company Better Place just announced with the China Southern Power Grid Co. Better Place is a company that wants to replace filling stations with battery swapping stations. (The batteries are swapped by robots .)
"Our planet's battery got charged over hundreds of millions of years, and yet we have consumed half the world's oil in one century. In the process, we got addicted to oil, polluted our cities and altered our planet's climate"
"We just didn't have supply and demand at the critical time, the 10 years of formation of the industry. We had 90 years of no research."
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