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Better Place Battery Swapping: The Technology Behind The Idea

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Last week, we shared with you our first-hand experience of driving an electric car through a Better Place battery swap station in Israel.

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Here’s how wireless charging could cut costs for commercial EVs

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Highway 231 in West Lafayette, Indiana, for wireless charging of electric trucks. This dynamic wireless charging—in which vehicles are charged as they drive along—has already been the subject of tests and pilot programs in Michigan, Sweden, and Israel.

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Hyundai Motor to establish Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore

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The lab will explore business ideas and technologies to revolutionize a value chain encompassing R&D, business and production for future mobility solutions. With a strong track record for open innovation, Singapore is an ideal location for Hyundai to test its innovative ideas such as HMGICs.

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Israel, Jordan Moving Ahead With "Electric Peace Car"

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Ynetnews.com, an Israeli news site, reports on continuing progress on the Middle East electric car front. Building on initial discussions in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January, a meeting has now been held in Jordan to move the idea forward. Tags: renault israel electric car toyota shai agassi jordan.

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BMW i3 Driven, Fisker Bought, Tesla Beats Israel: This Week In Social Media

Green Car Reports

If you''ve been following us around the social sphere this week, then you already have a pretty good idea of what''s going on in the green automotive world, but if you aren''t, we''ve created a quick recap just for you. We reported our results from the 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage''s gas mileage test, and we drove the new electric 2014 BMW i3.

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Government, Renault and Agassi: Making Israel a Better Place for Electric Cars

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Shai Agassi's ambitious Project Better Place takes a step forward today in Israel. The government will announce its support for the venture which has been developing between Agassi and Renault to bring electric cars to the virtual island that is Israel. My first electric car was a 50 mile range 57 mph top speed Th!nk

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Weizmann Institute team engineers E. coli to eat carbon dioxide

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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have created a strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli that grows by consuming carbon dioxide instead of sugars or other organic molecules. The findings point to means of developing, in the future, carbon-neutral fuels.

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