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Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars. Citation. Better Place Electric Cars. This Is Better Place. Shai Agassi (sagassi) sur Twitter. Electric Dreams. DRIVE SWITCH GO - View the future of driving by Better Place. TEDxHONOLULU - Brian Goldstein - Drive Switch Go: The Future Is Now. Better Place’s Shai Agassi: To Succeed, Electric Cars Must Beat 3-Minute Gas Fill-Up. 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.

Many of our readers are familiar with Better Place, the start-up company with the grand plan to knock out the world’s addiction to oil by installing networks for EV charging and battery swapping. As I wrote in the New York Times, the Better Place robot worked—replacing the Renault Fluence ZE’s battery pack in less than five minutes. The bigger question all along has been if Better Place’s business model will work as smoothly as its robots. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Shai Agassi, the dynamic founder of Better Place. It’s a longer than our usual posts, but I thought our readers would like to see a full transcript of my conversation with Agassi. Shai Agassi: We didn’t have different expectations.

Oil? No, plug-in hybrids and quick charging. +++++ Des électrons pour la PAIX - Une conférence à diffuser aux étudiants du monde entier (Vidéo. Shai Agassi at 2010 Technion Board of Governors. LeWeb 2010 - Shai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better Place - Making a Difference. Founder of Better Place gives 1hr live session! Better Place | Opérateur global de réseaux et de services pour véhicules électriques. Better Place (btrplc) 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.) If it works, the concept eliminates the range anxiety, long charging times, and battery ownership headaches that come with driving an electric car.

The first pilot station is in Israel, and its CEO has estimated that he can cover the entire (admittedly small) country with just nine stations. Now try to imagine 2,300 battery swapping stations spread across China, which is CSP's stated goal. Video: Betting on Better Place EV Chargers. Better Place founder and CEO Shai Agassi takes energyNOW! Chief Correspondent Tyler Suiters on a tour of the charging infrastructure his company is installing in Israel, and demonstrates how battery replacement can increase electric vehicle efficiency.

The key to Agassi's system is the charge spot. It's a charging unit that can be located at home or in the workplace, allowing the driver to "top off" the vehicle's battery in the most common parking locations. The charger plugs into electricity form any generation source. When the battery is drained from extensive driving, the other key piece of the Better Place system comes into play. Agassi says his system will be locally sourced -- it will be designed and manufactured where the charging stations are located, assuring that jobs go with the system. Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars.