Science: December 2008 Archives

Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, did a Cambridge double-dip yesterday to discuss his company’s plans to create a workable system of electric cars. (Beaker Hill is also double-dipping today, so stick around. We’ll be right back!) We were fortunate enough to attend the first of his two talks, part of the Brunel Lecture Series put on by MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. A classic salesman whose talents have been honed by his experience in the software industry, Agassi’s primary focus is customer convenience. “An electric vehicle was the name that......