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Mobileye and WILLER partner to launch autonomous robotaxi service in Japan, Southeast Asia

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Examples include the agreement with Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea, to deploy robotaxis based on Mobileye’s self-driving system, and the joint venture with Volkswagen and Champion Motors to operate an autonomous ride-hailing fleet in Israel. WILLER also partners with 150 local transportation providers in Japan.

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

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Existing shareholders, including Israel Corp., The company will launch its initial commercial service in Israel and Denmark early next year and has already announced a series of consumer offerings for electric mobility services that it says are competitive with gasoline-based cars.

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Siemens Investing $15M in Israeli Solar Power Company Arava

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MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel. Additional photovoltaic plants are already being planned for the Negev and Arava deserts and Israel’s aim is to meet around ten percent of its total energy needs with renewable energy plants by 2020.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bikes had their own express lanes, their own concrete lane barriers, their own street lights, their own place on subways, their own bus racks, their own hipster club parking spaces, their own prams, even their own kind of road-rage. Vegas anyone? And entrepreneurs were in ample supply too.

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

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Show more Travelers appear to be slowly returning to some Middle East nations despite the continuation of the Israel-Hamas conflict that all but decimated the region’s tourism since it began on Oct. Eyal Carlin, Israel’s tourism commissioner to North America, said international visitors had recently begun trickling into Israel to volunteer.

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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. I don’t just drive to work everyday with nothing more than a bag of golf clubs like the TV ads profess Californians are doing. I’m sick of hearing about the Prius….I

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag). In October, our relatives in Israel bought this amazing Hyundai Ioniq BEV, designed and built in Korea. Heck, even Israel crossed 3% last year.

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