{"id":255,"date":"2009-05-15T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-05-15T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:17:15","slug":"a-very-compelling-opportunity-for-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/05\/15\/a-very-compelling-opportunity-for-electric-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"A very compelling opportunity for electric vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\" data=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/ShaiAgassi_2009-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ShaiAgassi-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=512\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This video is an excellent presentation about one potential way to get electric cars on the road as a reality in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed by the number of compelling ideas that are covered in this short piece and I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Shai Agassi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shai_Agassi\">Shai Agassi<\/a> was a president at SAP but left that post to found his current company, Better Place.\u00a0 I first saw this video through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a> feed on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/02\/07\/have-i-told-you-how-much-i-like-boxee\/\">Boxee<\/a> unit and I was floored.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve since watched it again to show others, and I recently stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/05\/better-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article on Wired<\/a> about one of the battery stations that he mentions in the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>If the video doesn&#8217;t show up, you can also see it here:\u00a0<a href=\": http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c0f4ae84-564f-47eb-a329-fe320d105826\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This video is an excellent presentation about one potential way to get electric cars on the road as a reality in the next few years. I am amazed by the number of compelling ideas that are covered in this short piece and I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone. Shai Agassi was a president at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/05\/15\/a-very-compelling-opportunity-for-electric-vehicles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A very compelling opportunity for electric vehicles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}