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Video: Betting on Better Place EV Chargers
Better Place founder and CEO Shai Agassi takes energyNOW! Chief Correspondent Tyler Suiters on a tour of the charging infrastructure his company is installing in Israel, and demonstrates how battery replacement can increase electric vehicle efficiency. [read more]
Temperature Extremes and EV Battery Trade-offs
The first production-model Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is scheduled to be delivered to a customer in the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow. I know if I were on the receiving end, I'd be as excited as a kid on Christmas morning, particularly in a place where having the first Leaf will score its owner many green points. However, if the... [read more]
Electric cars are coming!
Are you ready? I can't say that I am, but last week I had the opportunity to learn more at the workshop Electric Vehicles: Innovations, Incentives, and Infrastructure, where panelists from various companies and government organizations presented the latest information.I doubt anyone at this workshop needed convincing that... [read more]
Better Place helps Victoria harness its electric vehicle future
Better Place has announced they will be participating in an electric vehicle trial in Victoria - Better Place helps Victoria harness its electric vehicle future.Better Place, the leading electric vehicle (EV) services provider, today announced it will support the Victorian Government’s ‘Victorian Electric Vehicle Trial’.Launched today,... [read more]
Better Place Launches Electric Taxi Service In Tokyo
Years ago when moved to Bangkok I used to marvel at how cheap taxis were. A few years later I bought a small Corolla with a modest 1.6 liter engine. I realized that the price my very efficient Toyota per km was just a bit higher than what it cost to be chauffeured around in a taxi the same distance. I was baffled. Turns out... [read more]
Electric cars: all systems go
Despite the disappointments of Copenhagen, despite the inaction on climate-change regulation in Congress, despite the global recession, the momentum behind electric cars keeps building. Yesterday, Better Place, the Silicon Valley-based electric car startup, raised $350 million in financing—the biggest clean tech investment ever, the... [read more]
Top 10 cleantech promises to watch for in 2010
Cleantech.com is looking forward at 2010 instead of back at 2009 and has a list of promised innovations to keep an eye on this year - Top 10 cleantech promises to watch for in 2010. Just because promises don’t happen in 2010 doesn’t mean they won’t happen ever. But, for what it’s worth, here are 10 of the most interesting developments... [read more]
Regulating EV Recharging
A feature on the New York Times website tipped me off to a debate that's brewing in California concerning whether and how the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) should regulate facilities and firms that will recharge the electric vehicles expected to dot California's roads within a few years. From my own experience in attempting... [read more]
The fight to control California's EV infrastructure
photo: Better Place With electric cars months away from hitting the road, the California Public Utilities Commission has begun the complex task of establishing a regulatory framework for the state’s emerging electric vehicle infrastructure. The biggest fight is likely to be over whether to regulate companies like Better Place, which... [read more]
France Announces $2.2 Billion Electric Car Charging Network
Inhabitat has a post on a French initiative to create a "Better Place" style network of EV recharging stations - France Announces $2.2 Billion Electric Car Charging Network.As the United States government continues to drag its heels on passing climate change legislation, it’s encouraging to see folks in Europe making moves in the right... [read more]
Electric cars new hope for ailing motor industry
The 7:30 report has an episode on the new generation of electric cars being touted at the Frankfurt Motor Show and by companies like Better Place - Electric cars new hope for ailing motor industry (via Convenient Solutions). ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: After one of the toughest years in its history, the global motor industry is pinning its... [read more]
Mass market electric cars: It's all about the software
photo: Better Place In today’s New York Times, I write about Better Place’s unveiling of its software platform for managing tens of thousands of electric cars on the road and the grid. Software as much as hardware will be key to making electric cars a mass market phenomenon: Electric cars may be all about hardware – batteries,... [read more]
Better Place has deal to provide taxis in Toyko
Japanese taxis represent a mere two percent of all passenger vehicles on the road in Japan, yet they emit approximately 20 percent of all carbon dioxide (CO2) from vehicles due to their average distance traveled in a given day. From a news release by Better Place. The company statement highlights the projects ability to showcase... [read more]
Ontario signals to automakers, and consumers, that it’s serious about electric cars
When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty revealed in January that the province was partnering with Better Place, it wasn’t clear whether it was simply a PR stunt or if the government was serious about bringing electric cars in Ontario through the appropriate investments and incentives. That’s because the province put no flesh in the game.... [read more]
Better Place to charge US$0.08 per eMile
I have been a fan of Better Place and their unique model around electric vehicles since I watched Shai Agassi’s presentation at the DLD conference in January 2008. If you are unfamiliar with the Better Place model, they looked at the idea of electric vehicles and people’s ‘range anxiety’ and asked how best to solve it. Their plan, put... [read more]
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