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Better Place to work with Chery on electric cars
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63N1GQ20100424
I am very glad about this announcement. At New Year I predicted that Better Place will announce two more partners in 2010 and that one was a Chinese:
http://www.easyecar.com/electric-vehicle-test/what-kind-of-news-will-better-place-break-in-2010/
I if my prediction will come through who will be the next? A German? VW, BMW or Daimler.
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Better Place to start battery switchable electric taxi operation
Update 4´th of may:
Update 28.th of April:
Article from Edmunds.com: http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/04/battery-swap-program-begins-in-tokyo-with-taxi-company-demo.html
Update 26.th of April: Pictures from todays event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/btrplc/sets/72157623927307852/show/
And this post also has a video:
http://www.betterplace.com/global-progress/japan/
This is Better Places chance to prove what many say that will never work: The batter switch technology.
I will follow the test closely with in the next weeks, so get back to see [...]
Electric vehicles on the Danish market in 2020 – And the economic value of the company Better Place
A group of students at Copenhagen Business School CBS have made this report:
“Electric vehicles on the Danish market in 2020 – And the economic value of the company Better Place”
Part of the conclution is:
“To conclude the market conditions is improving and a number of changes will occur in the transportation sector, but the economically value [...]
Better Place opens demo center in Tel Aviv
Better Place opens a demonstration center in Tel Aviv in Israel.
I had hoped that the next news was one more automaker that wants to produce a car that can do battery switch in the Batter Place system, but it is nice to hear news from Better Place.
Will it also have a live demo of the [...]
What kind of news will Better Place break in 2010?
As I see it Better Place need to introduce at least two more automakers that will produce cars that can battery switch. Now they only have Renault with one car that can battery switch ( http://www.easyecar.com/electric-vehicle-test/test-of-renault-fluence-z-e/ ).
I think they soon need to announce at least two more. Could that be a Chinese automaker like BYD? [...]
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Test of Renault Fluence ZE
I had the pleasure of testing one of the first production models of the Fluence Z.E. in the streets of Copenhagen.
It is absolutely the best Electric Vehicles I have tried so far! It feels like a production model on the level of any petrol car.
The car is very silent and has a very powerful acceleration, [...]
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Renault EV and Honda Full Cell test
Exciding week to come: Test of Renault Kangoo EV and Honda fuel cell vehicle FCX Clarity, anything special I shall look for?
The truth about lithium: abundant and recyclable
On Better Place blog there is a discussion about the amount of Lithium there is left in the ground.
I was at the http://www.ev-li-ionbatteryforum.com/ 2009 in Shanghai.
Here this subject was a big issue. Davis Miller from Talison Minerals in Western Australia was speaking about this. Talison Minerals owns a big Lithium mining company. He said that [...]
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Better Place: “See you in Copenhagen”
“Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, introduces us to the prototype electric vehicles that will be part of the sustainable transportation infrastructure his company is building to replace the world’s dependence on conventional fossil fuels.”
This video is a god warm up to the COP15 and I look forward to see what Better Place [...]
Better Place battery switch in Tokyo