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 Stories About: cars AND electric vehicles AND innovation AND placemaking
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Charge!
Electric-car visionary would overhaul the way we get around |
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19 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:55 AM on 19 Aug 2008 Could the global auto infrastructure be overhauled in a way that's profitable for business, cheap for drivers, and easy on the planet? Meet Better Place's Shai Agassi and his plans for an electric-car future, featured in the latest issue of Wired. In Agassi's vision, gas stations are replaced with omnipresent recharging spots for electric cars. Vehicles are cheap, perhaps even free; money is mad ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, Denmark, electric vehicles, energy, innovation, Israel, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green: breaking news
Think all-electric vehicles coming to the U.S. |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ray Lane, the managing partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is about to announce some news. (He's up on stage with Jan-Olaf Willums, CEO of Think Global AS, and Wilber James, managing general partner of RockPort Capital Partners.) Ah. He's launching Think North America -- bringing Think vehicles to the U.S. Hundreds of the cars will reach the states this year, mainly for use in fleets. After that they'll be offered to consumers, first in Californ ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, innovation, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Electric cars: going nowhere fast
Electric motocycles may be bridge to electric cars |
biodiversivist |
02 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I see this pea-green electric car biffing around the neighborhood now and then. I test drove a similar car a year or so ago. Entrepreneurs just can't resist testing the electric car market. One company after another goes out of business, only to be replaced by the next guy in line. It might help if they would make them less silly looking. Adding a fourth wheel might have been worth it in this case. However, the problem isn't just marketing. You can't just make an elec ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, innovation, placemaking (all these topics) |
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