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The incoming Obama administration is “closely monitoring” the innovative electric car project being developed by Israel’s Better Place company, “and may be adopting it,” Idan Ofer, chairman of Better Place, has told The Jerusalem Post.
An electric transport company is to install thousands of recharging points for electric cars across Israel ready for commercial use by 2011 in the first such nationwide network. The firm, Better Place, showed off its first charging spot yesterday at a car park above a shopping centre in Ramat Hasharon, near Tel Aviv. In a pilot project, it will install 500 of the charging points by the end …
California-based electric car operator Better Place unveiled its first charging stations as part of a network. It hopes to replace petrol-powered engines worldwide by charging electric cars such as this one in Israel. …
Better Place, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Honda will participate in trial to test network of electric car charging stations at government buildings to promote electric car sales.
Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place, spoke to a packed audience at the Institute of Politics about creating an electric car economy. See story at thecrimson.com.
An additional shipment of electric cars will arrive in January.
MELBOURNE, AU — California-based Better Place is partnering with AGL Energy and financial advisory firm Macquarie Capital Group to bring its concept of an electric vehicle recharge grid powered by renewables to Australia.
LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - California-based electric car operator Better Place joined with Macquarie Capital Group on Thursday aiming to raise $1 billion Australian dollars ($676.1 million) to install electric charge points across Australia.
