Comments on: Shai Agassi Launches Electric Car Startup, Raising $200M

By: Steve Kumar MS Engg,, MBA Pres & CEO

Steve Kumar MS Engg,, MBA Pres & CEO — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:01:26 +0000

Dear Agassi, Pl. call us for your project. We might help in arranging capital for your company. Pl. call us at 714 968-0010.

By: Steve Kumar MS Engg,, MBAPres & CEO

Steve Kumar MS Engg,, MBAPres & CEO — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:55:50 +0000

We are interested in talking with Mr. Agassai and might arrage more capital for his Electric Car project. Pl. contact us at 714 968-0010.
Steve Kumar

By: frank bushere

frank bushere — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:03:12 +0000

shai and team I live in a small town in Washington state in the United States, Rochester we would love to be a test site for your new electric car trunks and farm equipment, it is important that our food, is brought in diesel trucks that are electric, can you help us with this in the United States thank you
frank bushere 1-360-273-0234 or fjbush3@comcast.net

By: Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan Charge Ahead in Israel « Earth2Tech

Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan Charge Ahead in Israel « Earth2Tech — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:35:23 +0000

[...] Fehrenbacher No Comments Posted January 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pm in Startups Shai Agassi’s electric vehicle infrastructure venture Project Better Place announced on Monday that it will build its first pilot electric [...]

By: Earth2Tech » Blog Archive » Israel’s Ofer Revs Up Shai Agassi’s Electric Car Venture

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:00 +0000

[...] Shai Agassi launched his electric vehicle infrastructure venture, Project Better Place, he already had a whopping $200 million in [...]

By: Israel’s Ofer Revs Up Shai Agassi’s Electric Car Venture « Earth2Tech

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:10:32 +0000

[...] Fehrenbacher No Comments Posted December 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pm in Startups When Shai Agassi launched his electric vehicle infrastructure venture, Project Better Place, he already had a whopping $200 million in [...]

By: Abel

Abel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:11:09 +0000

I am sure that the courage, determination and innovative spirit of Shai Agassi will succeed. Anything new will always have challenges and problems to face. But that is how nations and companies progress. I am very confident that entrepreneurs like Shai will someday be emulated for his innovations and it will greatly benefit the whole world for if he becomes succesful in this venture he will not only become rich but help the environment and help us become independent from Mideast oil.

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:04:40 +0000

Darryl, Thanks, I clarified that in the post.

By: Darryl Siry

Darryl Siry — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:46:02 +0000

small point of clarification – the aspect of Shai’s business model that I compared to the propane business was the part described by the NYT as battery exchange stations, where people driving certain types of cars could drive up and have their spent batteries exchanged for fresh batteries, similar to what we have grown accustomed to with propane tanks.

By: Electric car start-up aims for 0m funding | Greenbang.com

Electric car start-up aims for 0m funding | Greenbang.com — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:28:30 +0000

[...] raising yet more cash. Last time we heard he’d bagged $100m for his venture, now he’s looking to double it. The list of investors includes Israel Corp., Morgan Stanley (MS), VantagePoint Venture Partners, [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:31:42 +0000

Aside from the practicality of this business, will this method really improve the environment if the charging stations will still be using traditional forms of energy to charge the batteries?

By: kent beuchert

kent beuchert — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:42:50 +0000

The main failure of logic in this whole scheme is its
assumption that the main problem with electric cars is the slow recharge rate of their batteries. That’s
dead wrong – economics is the main obstacle – batteries are too expensive, something this scheme not only doesn’t understand, but makes worse.

By: kent beuchert

kent beuchert — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:39:46 +0000

This is perhaps the most unlikely business model I’ve seen – it depends upon so many unlikely events – Ev carmakers designing cars to place their 500 to 700 pound battery pack in the rear and easily accessible, battery technology to not advance to the point of fast charge batteries, which would destroy his entire business, and a business space with no competitors. This business model can be uterly detroyed in so many ways and requires a whole lot of highly unlikely events to occur. And besides, plug-ins are the only economical method of electric propulsion,
and will make this scheme pointless. For a long lifespan, li ion batteries need a cooling system, and that makes the prospects of easily replaceable battery packs even less likely. If cooling is not used, the prices will skyrocket.

By: Former SAP Exec Emerges to Deploy Grid for Electric Cars| Zoli’s Blog

Former SAP Exec Emerges to Deploy Grid for Electric Cars| Zoli’s Blog — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:14:22 +0000

[...] Congress, New York Times, Green Wombat, Crunchgear (calling Shai “some guy”), isRealli, Earth2Tech, Business Week, [...]