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Agassi`s scheme is an oxymoron that has been rejected many times in the past - the idea od swappable batteries is an old one and also one that makes no economic sense. It simply increases the very cost that make electric cars
not viable alernatives -the cost of batterie. making them cost the same as israel`s sky high gas prices is no solution - all those taxes will be lost and replaced by nothing. Plug-in hybrids are the only slution that makes any sense - Israel`s govt has been conned into belieiving that a pure electric car has some advantage over a plug-in in reducting gasoline dependence. It demonstrably does not - it merely makes the cost of electric propulstion exorbitant. taking his pound of flesh one day at a time is Agassi`s scheme to rape Israeli drivers. And if the EEStor ultra capacitors work as planned, his whole sceme comes tumbling down and is totally obsoelte even before the first of his exorbitantly priced "system" can be installed. Agassi is simply a con man.
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While I don't agree with his tone, nor his personal attacks, I basically concur with his main point. I don't see the point in building a battery swapping infrastructure. I do think full electric is the eventual future. It will come gradually as the price of batteries comes down, or perhaps more quickly if there is a break through in storage (e.g. EEStore, perhaps). Till then plug-in hybrids are a good stepping-stone technology.
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