Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world’s leader in electric cars? You’d have [...]
NDN (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Electric car pioneer Shai Agassi is on the cover of this month's Wired , with a story on "The Future of the Electric Car." Shai's innovative and impressive solution is already underway in Israel, and the story is worth a read. Click on the picture for more. Shai spoke at NDN's "Moment of Transformation" event on March 12. Check out the video:
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Adam Stein: Shai Agassi says his electric cars can save the world. People are listening. There’s a lot to chew over in Wired’s profile of Shai Agassi,...
Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
... electric Mercedes and Smart models for 2010 . Zetsche also said that Daimler was in talks with Shai Agassi’s electric car infrastructure startup, Better Place . Today’s news of Daimler’s deal with RWE doesn’t rule out a roll for Better Place, but it could mean the German auto maker might be trying to electrify the German autobahn without Agassi.
Environmental Capital (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... a tiny fraction of U.S. electricity generation. Unless, as people such as T. Boone Pickens and Shai Agassi propose, electricity displace oil one way or another for cars and trucks. Mr. Pickens wants to use wind power for electricity, freeing up natural gas to run cars. Mr. Agassis Project Better Place skips the middleman and uses wind power to charge electric cars overnight....
TerraBlog from TerraPass (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
by Adam Stein There’s a lot to chew over in Wired’s profile of Shai Agassi , the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation’s transportation system, and in the process rewrite the automotive industry’s business model. The nation in question is Israel, with Denmark and Hawaii possibly to follow. Agassi’s idea is that electric cars should be sold...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Bradford Plumer picks through Shai Agassi's plan for the future of the electric car.
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in , Middle East If competition spurs companies to improve the quality of their offerings and the speed with which they innovate, then we may soon expect more from Shai Agassi's Better Place and its partner in Israel, Renault . While BYD already announced they would be selling electric vehicles in Israel earlier this month, that pronunciation...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I'm all for hydrogen—or any alternative fuel source for that matter (Shai Agassi, my man, let's get cooking already!)—but if you're going to heavily promote your cross-country trek as the "first...
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... Terrain RiSE : The Amazing Climbing Robot LittleDog : The Legged Learning Robot Thanks heaps to Shai Agassi for the link to Boston Dynamics.
