http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/ * a la: (French) like, in the manner of or style of something. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:53:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-67 terrabeing Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:16:51 +0000 http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-67 Electric cars are a couple of World Wars away. Electric cars are a couple of World Wars away.

]]> http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-66 terrabeing Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:14:45 +0000 http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-66 alas, the ultimate question and answer. If our world is to be free of using fossil-fuels, we still have to remember that most of our instruments and technologies that are used in these matters, ultimately are derived from such substances as those that are used to create our technology. alas, the ultimate question and answer. If our world is to be free of using fossil-fuels, we still have to remember that most of our instruments and technologies that are used in these matters, ultimately are derived from such substances as those that are used to create our technology.

]]> http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-65 Gadi Shamia Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:14:19 +0000 http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-65 Jason- thanks for the insight. I am no expert in batteries and I don't think Shai is. What is special about what he is doing is the strategy: he is not trying to invent a better battery but rather create the conditions for the existing battery to work by using the current grid. Jason- thanks for the insight. I am no expert in batteries and I don’t think Shai is. What is special about what he is doing is the strategy: he is not trying to invent a better battery but rather create the conditions for the existing battery to work by using the current grid.

]]> http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-64 Jason M. Lemkin Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:39:13 +0000 http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/electric-cars-and-the-whole-product-lesson/#comment-64 Surely Shai will be successful, but in many cases, getting into 'cleantech' is the perilous folly of the bored technology VC or founder. Battery technology is based on chemistry, physics, and painful R&D that rarely scales out of the lab. Certainly R&D can be improved but it is not software. Today there still is not a full working model of the basic lead-acid battery ... not for lack of trying but b/c it's not just bits and bytes ... Surely Shai will be successful, but in many cases, getting into ‘cleantech’ is the perilous folly of the bored technology VC or founder. Battery technology is based on chemistry, physics, and painful R&D that rarely scales out of the lab. Certainly R&D can be improved but it is not software. Today there still is not a full working model of the basic lead-acid battery … not for lack of trying but b/c it’s not just bits and bytes …

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