{"id":1746,"date":"2009-05-04T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2009-04-30T07:54:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:54:35","slug":"a-bold-plan-for-mass-adoption-of-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/articles\/2009\/05\/04\/a-bold-plan-for-mass-adoption-of-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bold-plan.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olino.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bold-plan.jpg\" alt=\"bold-plan\" title=\"bold-plan\" width=\"113\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bold-plan.jpg 113w, https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bold-plan-100x74.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>Forget about the hybrid auto &#8212; Shai Agassi says it&#8217;s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterplace.com\/\" title=\"Better Place\" target=\"_blank\">Better Place<\/a>, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shai Agassi wants to put you behind the wheel of an electric car &#8212; but he doesn&#8217;t want you to sacrifice convenience (or cash) to do it.<\/p>\n<p>When horrific climate-change scenarios elicit little but endless chatter from governments and entrenched special interests, the difference between talk and action represent an embarrassing gulf. Meet Shai Agassi, who has stepped fearlessly into that gap. His approach to solving the puzzle of electric automobiles could spark nothing short of an automotive revolution. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/ShaiAgassi_2009-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ShaiAgassi-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=512\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/ShaiAgassi_2009-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ShaiAgassi-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=512\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Shai Agassi&#8217;s bold plan for electric cars presented on TED<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about the hybrid auto &#8212; Shai Agassi says it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olino.org\/blog\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}