Monday, March 08, 2010

Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars


So first off:
Chutzpa:
–nounSlang.
1.
unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
2.
audacity; nerve.

That aside, there's some kind of business speak going on here. I think this talk amounts to saying, in the US you have to change the way the market operates to get more people using electric cars. In Europe we have taxes, China will have edicts, India will just get better mileage per tank/charge.

Apart from that hopefully this guys ego is as big as the idea the engineers are coming up. He makes a good point about systemic change e.g. it is a moral change. Nice anecdote comparing it to the decision to give up slavery despire worring about the economy.

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