You may remember my earlier posts on the Better Place electric car scheme (1, 2, & 3). Well, now that WordPress allow us bloggers to insert videos from TED easily, I thought I’d share an 18 min vid presentation from Better Place founder Shai Agassi:
He does a great job of outlining the economics of his model, and addresses some of the typical objections to this idea. He continues to highlight the linkages needed (between his firm, auto manufacturers, techologists, governments etc.). Let’s hope (for his sake, and perhaps ours) these cooperative endeavours continue.
And he mentions Australia…
Tags: Australia, Strategic management, business, auto industry, electric cars, better place, motor industry, cars, TED, Shai Agassi
May 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thanks, Andre, for leaving your digital footprint on my virtual sand.
Read your trail of coverage of Better Place and the future of electric cars. Great read!
Thanks for your interest and kind comment.
Have a great day. Take care
July 14, 2009 at 11:33 am
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