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Project Better Place Stacking Its Global Chips, Aids Japan

by David Heyerman on December 9, 2008

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  • Project Better Place is making new country partnerships look like taking candy from a baby, with their latest announcement to include the country of Japan as it’s next place to develop electric car infrastructure.  Technically, they didn’t sign the country of Japan on as they did in Denmark, Israel, Australia, San Francisco, and most recently Hawaii, they’ve simply joined a government pilot program with Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Suburu vehicles called “Ministry of the Environment.”
  • The difference between this program and Better Place’s program in Israel, Denmark and Australia is that they won’t be developing charging stations, they’ll be focusing exclusively on battery-swapping locations.  The program will begin in January 2009 and will last 3-6 months, opening the first battery swapping location in Kanagawa.
  • One thing I find curious is that Nissan-Renault isn’t mentioned once in the new Japan based program.  Better Place established awhile ago that they’d be partnering with the car giant to provide electric cars, which is odd that they’d put themselves in cahoots with a competing Japanese manufacturer like Suburu.
  • More to come, I’m sure.

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Project Better Place Coming To California

by Jason Wilk on November 20, 2008

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  • Project Better Place and it’s innovative electric car infrastructure, has struck a deal with California’s Bay Area.
  • The company is to set up a $1 billion charging network for electric cars throughout San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose with car availability beginning in 2012.
  • Our system will be unlike Australia, Denmark and Israel (who have also signed on), who’s Better Place system will revolve around electric-vehicle battery swapping stations for new low-priced EV’s made by Nissan-Renault.
  • Better Place will support all types of electric cars in California, allowing charging of cars with either fixed or replaceable batteries.
  • It looks like the electric car might be making its debut into the mainstream by 2012. It’s about damn time something good comes out of the corrupted  California Air Resources Board.

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Better Place’s CEO Addresses Next President: $100B For EV Car Network

by David Heyerman on October 22, 2008

  • Shai Agassi, Better Place’s CEO and Founder, announced in San Francisco Thursday night that the next president could have Better Place’s electric vehicle infrastructure up and running for $100 Billion.
  • Better Place aims at building an electric car network of charging spots and battery swapping locations throughout the country.
  • The incredibly ambitious, yet sensible startup has already signed on Israel and Denmark as beta countries; Israel at a cost $200 million.
  • To put things into perspective, Agassi explained that the US undergoes $100 Billion in oil imports within 2 months.
  • To keep everyone wanting more, Agassi also announced that he just signed on a third “large” country, which he will be announcing sometime next week.

tinyUPDATE:  Better Place just announced their third “large” country Agassi was talking about last week.  More information will come out tomorrow but Better Place says, “We selected Australia, the world’s sixth largest country, to show that our model works in any country, regardless of size.  If Australia can do it, so can others.”

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