Reducing the Cost of Electric Cars – Shai Agassi
Complete video at: fora.tv Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, discusses his plan to economically price the electric car. “We’ve taken the price of the battery off the car,” says Agassi, bringing the consumer cost down to around 000. He also explores developing incentive plans to offer tax breaks and bonuses for consumers who purchase electric cars. —– Shai Agassi deliveres the 2009 Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lecture, outlining how through smart business, improving technology and changing public policy, the electric car revolution can commence. – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Shai Agassi is the founder and chief executive of Better Place, the leading electric vehicle services provider. He is focused on one of this century’s biggest challenges, moving the world from oil-based to sustainable transportation. Agassi works with government leaders, auto manufacturers, energy companies and others to make his vision “zero-emission vehicles powered by electricity from renewable sources” a reality in countries around the globe. Agassi’s visionary leadership with the Better Place model has been recognized widely. TIME Magazine named him to the 2009 TIME 100, the world’s 100 most influential people, and one of TIME’s “Heroes of the Environment 2008.” Fast Company placed him third on its “100 Most Creative People in Business” list. Most recently, Scientific American Magazine named him to the 2009 Scientific American 10, a select group of 10 people who have …
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25 Comments
Jan 24, 2011 2:56 pm |
Interesting idea. He has basically taken the battery changer idea for forklifts used in large warehouses and applied them to cars.
Jan 24, 2011 3:27 pm |
The Oil companies are trying their best to stop free energy ideas from spreading to common people.
We need to put an end to this corruption ,start generating your own electricity now.
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Jan 24, 2011 4:25 pm |
@AvatarZoye Here is a review of the Fluence that does say early 2011 delivery.
Electric car face off – Nissan Leaf and Renault Fluence ZE go head-to-head
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Jan 24, 2011 5:19 pm |
@AvatarZoye BTW where did you see a March 2011 date? I only saw 2nd half of 2010.
Jan 24, 2011 5:25 pm |
@AvatarZoye Renault does not even mention BetterPlace in their press release or in interviews. The call the system QuickDrop battery switch and mention it third after standard plug-in and quick charge (which will not be available on initial release).
On the BetterPlace win side of the column, Renault is talking about leasing the batteries with a monthly fee. So they have adopted this aspect of BetterPlace.
Jan 24, 2011 6:19 pm |
@AvatarZoye OK, they don’t have a car in production, they will have it some time next year. This is a little later than the LEAF and the VOLT but not bad. Looks like a great vehicle.
But what has this got to do with BetterPlace? Less and less as far as I can tell. Looks like the BetterPlace charging stations are no longer coming. So that leaves BetterPlace doing the battery switching stations.
So what does Renault say about that? Nothing.
Jan 24, 2011 6:46 pm |
@JohnCBriggs Renault had a car in production, Fluence ZE is coming in March 2011, go to website for more information.
Jan 24, 2011 7:36 pm |
@Zamboro Thanks for the update. Looks like one switching station, 3 or 4 test mules on a 90 day trial. Well that is better than nothing but still not much more than nothing. There are no production cars, just test mules that they don’t dare use for more than 90 days. Still, if they are actually using the switching station daily, that is pretty cool. Any reports on how the test scheme is going?
Jan 24, 2011 7:52 pm |
@JohnCBriggs
You haven’t been keeping up to date. There’s now a Better Place switch station operational in Tokyo, it services their electric taxis.
Jan 24, 2011 7:55 pm |
So we have all heard about this for years now. What has Better Place actually delivered? As far as I know, nothing.
Jan 24, 2011 8:21 pm |
Then throw your own money in a hole and burn it, I’d rather spend mine on things that matter and might actually make life better for someone.
Jan 24, 2011 8:48 pm |
Profitability has nothing to do with it.
Jan 24, 2011 9:24 pm |
Not nearly as much as what those Hybrid/Electric cars. I mean road pavements made from oil based products.
Jan 24, 2011 9:55 pm |
Spilled gasoline is NOT Haz-Mat?
Jan 24, 2011 10:10 pm |
Everytime an electric car gets into an accident, the accident scene becomes a HAZ-MAT area. Environmentally friendly my ass. Do you know whenever they find a meth lab, they need a specialized HAZ-MAT clean up crew to clean up the scene? Where are they when one of those silly green cars gets into an accident? Well, there goes the environment.
Jan 24, 2011 10:13 pm |
Space-based industry? Dude, it’ll be a while before we’re high tech enough to make that profitable.
This was the only way it could have gone.
Jan 24, 2011 10:22 pm |
It was a waste of money because we never really did it in anything other than a symbolic fashion. Instead of prototyping a space-based industrial supply chain, we spent billions of dollars and killed a few astronauts just to make grade school propaganda and velcro. It wasn’t supposed to work out that way.
Jan 24, 2011 10:30 pm |
The space thing was a huge was of money.
Jan 24, 2011 10:58 pm |
Rude maybe. Irrelevant…not at all.
Jan 24, 2011 11:12 pm |
That’s rude and irrelevant. You’re blocked, troll.
Jan 24, 2011 11:32 pm |
Mastikator Fail.
The way for a Bitter to keep it real is to keep it dead wrong. Swap out the principle as it is, for its caricature.
‘Cause slaying straw men is the surest way to hold that smug superior pose.
Jan 24, 2011 11:49 pm |
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Jan 24, 2011 11:56 pm |
50 years ago we were excited about humanity going into space. Now we’re excited about building electric cars. Can we go back to the space thing? It won’e hurt anybody to bike or ride the bus or make their own electric car if it’s really necessary.
Jan 25, 2011 12:25 am |
That’s not what taxes is at all, nor is it socializm, nor is it free, it’s free to use (not the same!).
Socialism would be if other people who didn’t buy the car paid for it.
Jan 25, 2011 12:46 am |
Dont forget growing plants and extracting energy (fuel) from them takes energy too.
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