Ex-Intel head Grove: Electric transportation ‘has to be done’

Former Intel Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry — and how to respond.

He even has coined a term for it: the "strategic inflection point." Now the retired chairman of the world’s largest computer chipmaker thinks the term applies to energy and transportation, where record-high gasoline and oil prices have spurred interest in alternative energy sources and next-generation vehicles.

By Ken Thomas, Associated Press

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