Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars

http://www.ted.com Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.

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[Fujio B]

Tesla Model S voted unanimously by Car and Driver Automobile of the Year 2012. First unanimous vote and first electric car.

[DSFJNWA]

So you'd rather continue to fuck up the environment than have the government step in and do its job in regards to the planet. Asshole.

[jASTDK]

wow.. this guy is so amazingly full of shit.

[bob saggot]

I mean all this talk of electric cars sounds nice. But I prefer leaning like a hardcore cholo in my 65 Chevy Impala lowrider.

Sorry guys.

[ivan olofernes]

true in some cases electrical cars is more inefficient than a conventional gas powered car if it gets its power from a coal powered grid.

[djkerton]

Wrong. The tax he speaks of is just the recapture of the true cost of burning gas. How much do you, or anyone, pay today for the pollution out of your tailpipe? Zero. Yet that pollution has negative consequences. It is a cost. So the tax simply makes people realize/pay the true total cost of the fuel they burn including getting it to the gas station, AND dealing with the pollution. The free market then nudges rational consumers towards alternative energy sources. Not asshole. Smart.

[Tom Lee]

LOL half the US would leave then.

[Tom Lee]

good information but I always wonder if there are people who wait for the speaker to end so they can be the first ones to stand up! LOL!

[lawrenceisyong]

Standing ovation well deserved. This is excellent.

[Peter K]

You've failed the IQ test. Get out of the country ..

[Wijnandv]

Casey, you stick to your individual freedom to drive gasoline cars.

A pity that you don't understand that technology allows you to negatively impact the world by needing and burning so much oil. You neglect the responsibility for your actions. You seem to need a government for to remind you of that. Pity.

I would be perfectly fine with you living in a small lot of land growing your own food, like an Amish. Then you would not impact the world and your individual freedom could reign. Go ahead.