http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/11/tax-exemption-attracts-automakers-to-denmark/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2008/11/tax-exemption-attracts-automakers-to-denmark/comment-page-1/#comment-9949 blathra Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:50:30 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2008/11/tax-exemption-attracts-automakers-to-denmark/#comment-9949 I recently heard Better Place CEO and founder Shai Agassi speak at the Web 2.0 Summit. Talk about thinking out of the box to develop completely new approaches to old problems. His model for personal transportation is fashioned after the mobile phone industry. The consumer pays very little or nothing for the car and just pays for the miles driven. You recharge your battery (actually replace it) every time you pull into one of their unique recharging stations. His design has also uncoupled the battery from the car recognizing that one of the barriers for the adoption of the electric car is the rapid advancement of the battery technology. Whatever you buy this year is out of date next year, which is a turnoff for many consumers. The governments of both Israel and Denmark have embraced the concept, and Renault and Nissan are already manufacturing the cars. Totally brilliant speaker and concept. I recently heard Better Place CEO and founder Shai Agassi speak at the Web 2.0 Summit. Talk about thinking out of the box to develop completely new approaches to old problems. His model for personal transportation is fashioned after the mobile phone industry. The consumer pays very little or nothing for the car and just pays for the miles driven. You recharge your battery (actually replace it) every time you pull into one of their unique recharging stations. His design has also uncoupled the battery from the car recognizing that one of the barriers for the adoption of the electric car is the rapid advancement of the battery technology. Whatever you buy this year is out of date next year, which is a turnoff for many consumers. The governments of both Israel and Denmark have embraced the concept, and Renault and Nissan are already manufacturing the cars. Totally brilliant speaker and concept.

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