Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
December 19th, 2011 by admin
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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives www.facebook.com
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@mmca2 “US never send a man to the moon” If you’re trying to say we faked the moon landing, you’re a nut job. You’re going to try to convince me that tens of thousands of people have kept it a secret for over 40 years! Really? Not one single person has come forward with evidence of their involvement with a cover up of that magnitude. In this day and age! If anyone had proof the landing was a fake, they would sell their proof, and their story to the highest bidder. No one has done that. No one.
This sounds like a good idea. Until. What happens when you get into an accident and 2 months later there’s a lawyer beating on your door saying you owe for not only the battery, but also for all the future money the battery company lost because the battery was destroyed in the accident? Of which all the numbers will be exaggerated by the company. That check you got to replace your wrecked car, will instead go to pay off the lawyer and the battery company. In the end, you will lose.
US will never be the pioneer in electric cars .. they are holding up the new Kyoto plan with two other nations .. stupid stupid country.
great idea. great vision. only one thing – US never send a man to the moon. check the facts, i believe you know how to search after all the research you have done regarding electric cars.
This is what will help get the US out of the recession.
I enjoyed Your Short Clip
Sorry KhadaKuraki I meant to send that comment to 47f0.
KhadaKuraki thank you for your mature and open minded comment. NOT! Keep an open mind and remember there are inventors out there with brilliant ideas that go beyond electric cars. Unlike your not so brilliant insults. Nothing wrong with a good debate, but if you need to be rude, keep it to yourself.
@pianovocal – thank you so much for your utterly useless comment. “I know a magic solution, but I can’t tell you”. Brilliant.
Brilliant.
There are other options. I cannot go into detail, but I know one company out there who is making the better mouse trap. This mouse trap will have the POWER to push big vehicles including tractor trailers, with amazing fuel mileage. No batteries needed.
@Traviskolber Somehow I think subsidies are not on the horizon right now…. remember the word “austerity”? Anyway, I’m glad Europe can go right ahead and try it. As long as they have enough money. LMAO.
@garadgd Nuclear power, solar power, tidal power, hydrogen power.
There are lots of alternatives.
@8legsFreak
No one will produce them, obviously. They’ll be classics, something that exist maybe in less than the number of ten thousand in the entire world.
@uatimrose Oil lobbies are the only reason we haven’t switched.
@johnson1095 Israeli.
@sbhuyan It can come from a lot of different sources.
Solar power, hydrogen power, tidal power, nuclear power. There are many options other than oil.
@pianovocal But it is the most stable and most efficient at our current tech level.
He already said he tried biofuels and hydrogens for cars, and they didn’t work. Solar panels on cars would just be fucking moronic. Any other options? Not right now.
@TheArfdog The US will be the last nation to switch over, after the rest of the world. Israel, Denmark, and Australia have already accepted and begun telling about subsidies to these types of cars, and other European countries are already learning towards accepting this infrastructure. It isn’t hard for the rest of the world, only for the polluting arrogant country that is the US.
@renehenckens Too late. Denmark and Israel already support both programs.
You get free parking spots, massive subsidies, tax breaks, AND the car is cheaper in the first place.
Face it, this is the way of the future.
Magnetic motors.
a wheel within a wheel positive on one side neg on the other, sliding in to engage and out to disengage
@renehenckens
I quess this was pointed to me?
Well yes I trust other people very much indeed. E.g. I trust that the train conductor brings me from A to B. I trust that the pilot flies me safely from A to B. I trust that when I fill up gasoline it IS gasoline and not diesel. And I expect that when I have a contract the contractor will do his duty because I pay for it!
@renehenckens
sorry didn’t see you answered my points 4 and 5
4: The increase of EVs will raise slowly so alternative energy sources can grow with it. And there is a little technique called “smart grid” so you can’t put down the grid by charging EVs. EVs are even a natural partner to wind power because peak wind power can be taken easily by EVs.
5: So you GENERALLY DON’T TRUST Better Place, even if they give you guaranties by contract? Well then just LOL ^^. It is your own problem then.
@renehenckens
2: (additional Question) What people will do which mistakes, explain a little bit more.
3:I guess the heating or cooling will only be active when you are driving or the EV is pluged in. Why do you have the assumption that the engineers are that dumb? The cold isn’t bad for the Battery while it isn’t used. It IS bad when it is used AND cold.
@renehenckens
1: Uhm…did I mention recycling?! Of course the initial mass production will demand the most energy, foremost the digging for the lithium. But when it’s all in the cycle, it should cost far less energy to produce new batteries.
2: You don’t trust an AUTOMATED(= no humans) battery switch station, an emotionless machine, did I get that right? It won’t be crowded because mostly you will plug-in at home or at a parking lot.
read also Point 3. in the next post