How will you leave the world a better place than you found It? When Shai Agassi was challenged for an answer, he responded with swift action: he resigned from the business-software firm SAP, declining an offer to be CEO, and set out to help the world end its addiction to oil by transforming cars from their climate-changing, lung-polluting, gas-guzzling design to one that's clean, affordable and all-electric. The name for his new enterprise was obvious-Better Place.rnO.K., so you've heard of a million such plans before-but none are like Agassi's. Yes, he wants to replace gas-powered cars with electric ones, but he also wants to build an infrastructure in which gas stations are replaced by battery exchanges and charging stations and are everywhere. When you start running out of juice, you just plug In or swap out, and off you go. It's as easy as stopping for gas.
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