Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. In addition to Smart Grid City, another major EV/V2G initiative is unfolding.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Related Articles Chrysler May Dodge the Banking Bullet Quick Read Apr 28, 2009 Group 1 Automotive Inc. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The electricity for recharging has to come from somewhere, which means power plants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

When the batteries reach a predetermined state of discharge, the Capstone C30 microturbine fires up and recharges the batteries on the fly to extend the driving range up to 500 miles. Capstone’s CMT-380 is just now finishing up the conceptual design and first article testing stage. seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

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And as a timely follow up to my story above, read yesterday’s NY Times article on Hawaii’s plan for Electric Cars after the jump. Here is the full text of the NY Times article (in case the link goes bad). Users of his recharging network would subscribe to the service, paying for access and for the miles they drive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The two companies have made a series of deals across the world supplying carsfor the electrification programmes of cities and whole countries – Denmark,Israel and Portugal among them. Witha 60-mile range, most felt the need to recharge after 30 miles or so. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Last week it began taking pre-bookings for the Peugeot i0n model ( see article ), which is based on the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The batteries can be recharged in six hours or to 80 per cent capacity in 30minutes using a fast charge system. Its first electric vehicle was the Peugeot 106 Electric, which was sold between 1995 and 2003.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Please feel free to tell us what you believe to be the benefits of some of the various recharging modes mentioned above in the comments section below. Jason ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 10:41PM (4/09/2009) Home recharge with your home solar recharge station would be the most desirable for commuting from the suburbs.

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