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Better Place closes $200M Series C financing; valuation now $2.25B

Green Car Congress

Better Place, a developer and provider of electric car networks—including battery switch stations, batteries and public/personal charge spots ( earlier post )—worldwide, has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investors and partners, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $2.25

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Renault and Better Place partner in Australia to launch Fluence Z.E. with switchable battery in 2012

Green Car Congress

Customers will buy the Fluence Z.E. The Better Place membership provides unlimited access to batteries, the network of public charge spots and battery switch stations, and personal charge spots at home or work. It will be sold everywhere in Europe and together with Better Place, in Israel and Denmark. Fluence Z.E.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom all have 2030 deadlines. It is unlikely that most consumers are considering the future price of petrol, when buying a car today. . As such, this distortion encourages fleets to buy cheaper vehicles with higher running costs (e.g.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

Baua Electric

will also power what happens behind the scenes at airlines and airports, said Gilbert Ott, director of partnerships at Point.me , which helps travelers find flights to buy with rewards points. Not immediately, said Leigh Rowan of Savanti Travel , a personal travel management service. Does the legislation threaten your points?

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

His parents happily indulged this passion, buying him a computer and providing him with unrestricted Internet access. The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012. On the same day, the Israeli police arrested the VDoS founders in Israel.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? My personal criteria for an EV is 80/80 MPH/miles range, but thats because drivers either go 80 or stopped around here. They will not meet my needs.