Now that Shai Agassi’s electric-vehicle network start-up Project Better Place has started to charge ahead in its first market, Israel, the company has begun to put the pieces in place to actually build the 500,000 electric-vehicle charging stations.

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Who says the World Economic Forum at Davos is just a lot of hot air? Sure, the occasional blind tastings hosted by well-known wine writers like Jancis Robinson and dinners by California cuisine doyenne Alice Waters happen. But serious work gets done too, and in keeping with the forum’s quest to make the world a better and cleaner place. Shai Agassi, the former executive at German software giant SAP AG, can attest. The idea behind his green company’s lofty plan to shake up how cars are driven–without gasoline–came from a serendipitous exchange of chats at Davos three years ago. “It’s origins were here back in 2005 from some conversations. The idea matured in 2006,” he says.

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