Apr29
Converting the entire world to electric cars
This guy really wants to do it, and he’s got the plan to make it happen.
I think the thing I like most about this talk is that Shai isn’t blowing smoke up anyones ass. He took a long look at the constraints of trying to get the entire world converted to electric cars (that could only run on green energy – ie, wind, solar, etc.) and he worked through each in turn.
In short, he’s coming up with solutions, not just screaming like a demonstrator. The G20 protesters would do well to take a page from that book – they’d probably get less police beatings then.
Categories: Media
Tags: electric cars, environment, hope, Shai Agassi
April 9th, 2010 at 6:26 am
I loved this talk and I'm intrigued how he will make it happen. He certainly has the weight to lobby for something like this, and it's great to see the winds of change that have been blowing from the new new economy (toms shoes, dreamhost, basically any company with a social agenda) finally reaching the old market. Then again, there really is little choice. GM's recent decline shows that the old business models don't work any more. Agassi will have 100000 cars out by 2012 and grow from there, while everybody else is caught in a downward spiral.
I also agree that it's smarter to speak the language of the people you're trying to convince. Dressing in rags and chaining yourself to railroad tracks is not sending the right kind of signal.