As I promised in my earlier post, I am posting the speech by Shai Agassi's at today's announcement by the government of Israel and Renault-Nissan on their collaboration along the Better Place framework - creating the first three way partnership for an oil-independent country. The original speech was in Hebrew and the following is the first few lines of the translated version of the speech. I would have posted the the speech in it's entirety but then I want even the little traffic I get, to visit the Project Better Place. We all will benefit from the work they are doing and as Shai said, the time is running out! So please follow the link below for the complete speech and the rest of the Project Better Place.
Mr. Prime Minister; Mr. Ghosn; honorable guests. It is an honor to be here with you today.
It is not typical and a rather humbling moment for a founder of a small startup to share a stage with the prime minister of his own country - Ehud Olmert, and one of the legendary CEOs of our times – Carlos Ghosn.
It is not a typical for a government take a bold strategic decision and challenge the private sector to help it solve a problem of global magnitude as the prime minister and its President of Israel did.
But these are not typical times.
These are times where we are running out of oil in the ground and we are running out of air, The oil we burn harms the atmosphere that controls the climate of our the planet. We have reached times where in some parts of our world children cannot see the sky.
Finally, we are running out of our most precious commodity of all – we are running out of time.
tag: Project Better Place, , Renault-Nissan, electric vehicles, zero-emission, Israel
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