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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Better Place Installs First Charging Locations in U.S.

By Alexis Madrigal

Apr 20 2011, 4:57 PM ET Comment

Better Place, Shai Agassi's electric vehicle services company, installed its first set of charging locations in the United States. Through a partnership with a hotelier in Hawaii, the company put in 10 charging spots across Oahu, which will service a small fleet of seven cars. The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii will use the pilot installation to "track usage, recharge performance, and grid and driver behavior," Better Place says. If you want to take a ride in one of the cars, you'll have to stay at one of the joints run by Kyo-ya Hotels like the Sheraton Waikiki, and hope they deem you a VIP.


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