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...Shai Agassi, the founder and CEO of Better Place, a company devoted to supporting the widespread usage of electric cars, touted the idea of transportation as a subscription service in a speech to a packed forum at the Institute of Politics yesterday...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Advocates Electric Car Networks | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Agassi said the last important aspect of Better Place’s business plan is the adoption of a system similar to the cellular phone network business model, in which drivers pay for the miles they drive. Agassi said that in this way transportation becomes a “sustainable service” to which drivers can subscribe...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Advocates Electric Car Networks | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Environmental Hero" Shai Agassi claims that electric cars produce no carbon emissions. But the electricity to run such a car must come from somewhere. Unless the car happens to be in a nation that draws its power entirely from renewable sources (sadly not the case anywhere), electric cars serve only to shift the location where fossil fuels are burned. Ronan Evans, Jerrabomberra, New South Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...plug-ins have yet to hit the street - but a few companies are already gearing up. A start-up called Coulumb Technologies in Campbell, Calif., is developing public charging points that would enable drivers to plug in and pay for the power they use. Another model altogether is Shai Agassi's Better Place, a company that wants to develop a vast infrastructure of public charging and "battery swap" stations. Agassi imagines a subscription model similar to how mobile phones work. Drivers would lease the batteries that power their electric cars, and be charged based on how much they drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is America Ready to Drive Electric? | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

...Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Pete Sampras | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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