shai agassi Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:18:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 A $9,999 Electric Vehicle to Upset the Automobile Market, Says Shai Agassi https://www.greenoptimistic.com/9999-electric-vehicle-upset-automobile-market-shai-agassi-20130902/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/9999-electric-vehicle-upset-automobile-market-shai-agassi-20130902/#comments Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:18:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41268 Electric vehicles are not like conventional or even hybrid electric vehicles, and hard lessons have been learned by startup and established automakers alike. Don’t forget the lessons that drivers need to learn, as well! Shai Agassi, founder of now-bankrupt electric vehicle startup Better Place, still thinks the best way to produce a market-upsetting electric vehicle […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/9999-electric-vehicle-upset-automobile-market-shai-agassi-20130902/feed/ 8 41268 Better Place: Electric Car Battery Swapping Service Envisioning Worldwide Expansion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-battery-swap-expansion-20100716/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-battery-swap-expansion-20100716/#respond Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8526 You may have probably heard of Project Better Place before - it's the business led by Shai Agassi that imposes itself a truly hard to get goal: to make a network of battery swapping and charging stations for the not-so-distant electric cars.

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