Shai Agassi's Clean Car Vision

Electric cars have been kicking around the clean-energy conversation for decades, but they've been held back by short battery life and limited range.
Tech visionary Shai Agassi thinks he’s got a solution — and sees zero-emission cars hitting Main Streets in just two years.
It's all about infrastructure: recharging stations and battery replacement bays blanketing the roads. Customers buying miles like cell phone minutes. Some think he’s dreaming — but he’s already got the governments of Israel, Denmark, and Australia signed on.
This hour, On Point: Shai Agassi's vision for electric cars that go the distance.
You can join the conversation. Can electric cars break our dependence on fossil fuels? Is Shai Agassi dreaming – or really onto something?
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Shai Agassi is founder and CEO of Better Place, a green-tech venture that aims to bring electric cars with replaceable batteries to the mass market by 2011.

More links:

"Batteries Not Included" -- a profile of Shai Agassi and Better Place in last Sunday's issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Agassi spoke at the 2009 TED conference. Watch the video here.