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Posted on August 26, 2008

by Adam Stein There's a lot to chew over in Wired's profile of Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation's transportation system, and in the process rewrite the automotive industry's business model.The nation in question is Israel, with Denmark and Hawaii possibly to follow. Agassi's idea is that electric cars should be sold on a subscription model, like cell phones, with fees used to underwrite a network of intelligent electric outlets that ensure batteries are always topped up.The plan is quite a bit more complicated than that, but in ess...

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