Video: Shai Agassi talks about his plan for mass adoption of electric cars
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Everyone talks about the electric cars these days. This time we have a great video by TED, where Shai Agassi talks about the future of electric cars.
Why should you listen to him? Mr. Agassi is not just a guy with a vision, his startup Better Place has already signed up some impressive partners like Nissan-Renault and the countries of Israel and Denmark.
With Renault-Nissan he is working on development of exchangeable batteries.
His company raised 200 million, which is one of the fastest seed rounds in history. Back in 2003, when he was 36 he was named on of the top 20 ‘Global Influentials for 2003′ on a CNN-Time Magazine joint list. Take a look at his speech on TED below, it is worth your time.
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This is basically a scam. They, the corporate elite behind this gentleman, want to seperate the batteries from the car, to prevent people from owning them so as to prevent technological development such as ultra efficient alternatives or even power on demand systems, to shackle users to periodic fees, to control the point of access of energy, to program in obsolescence. To promote artificial scarcity which is what they always do with every technology, everywhere.
People, with these batteries available on a commercial basis, could take whole industries and cities off the grid, and it would be an economic renaissence. The problem, for them, is that it would also mean a braking of the oligarchic world economy monopoly.
The technology itself is a step in the right direction, but these folks want to tie it down, to make the power cord into a shackle.
I see the electric car, in the current iteration, as a commuter alternative for petroleum fueled cars, untill a time the technology develops and people can simply upgrade the battery pack. The engines should last for ever.
These cars could represent the death of the current centralised and mildly fraudulent business model. I say good riddance if that happens.