Whats the idea of Better Place?
AGASSI: We looked at the problem of transport from a very different perspective than the automotive sector has in the past. They’ve all looked at it from the perspective of how to build the car. We looked at it from the perspective of how to run an entire country without oil. You’ve got to put the infrastructure ahead of the cars. In our case, the infrastructure is a combination of a massive amount of charge spots and the ability to switch batteries in less time than it takes you to fill up with gasoline. But by building the infrastructure before you have electric cars on the road, aren’t you putting the cart before the horse? We wouldn’t build the infrastructure if we didn’t have a massive carmaker to build cars. Renault-Nissan is the first to build the cars for this infrastructure, and we’ve coordinated so our infrastructure will be in place when their cars hit the market. How else have you altered the old transportation model? The second [change we decided on] is that the car and th
