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Rockin’ Down to Electric Avenue, Part II

February 1, 2010 – 8:11 am

Shai Agassi closed a deal, financing his company Better Place, two days before the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. They closed at $350 million, pricing the firm at $1.25 billion.
Agassi became inspired to enter the electric car market at the World Economic Forum meeting three years ago, when he left software [...]

By Natural Buy | Posted in Environment, Green Products, Transportation | Comments (0)

Effectively Replacing Petroleum

November 9, 2009 – 3:43 pm

I need not strain myself by explaining that people and governments are both stubborn when it comes to going green. Global warming is nearly an impossible sell and as for energy, well, “if it ain’t cheap, it won’t compete.” Governments, worldwide apparently do not have the cajones to legislate a significant cut in oil consumption. [...]

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“We Gonna Rock Down To Electric Avenue”

October 28, 2009 – 3:15 pm

A U.S. firm, California-based, Better Place, is building electric car chargers, in Jerusalem of all places and has installed a network in Tel Aviv.
By 2011, roughly 100 charging stations will be found on the streets of Jerusalem. In the same year Israel plans to have electric cars available for mass consumption. Twenty of the [...]

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Electric, Hybrid, AND Diesel? BMW Technological Orgy

September 3, 2009 – 11:20 am

We know, we know, electric cars use too much rare earth metals. We just wrote about it below. But that’s not going to stop us from covering the next ultra cool electric triple hybrid diesel plugin etc. tour de force vehicle.
That’s just what we need. All these companies coming out with zero emission stuff that [...]

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230 Miles per Gallon a Cinch

August 14, 2009 – 12:17 pm

If you’re an avid Naturalbuy reader, you’ll remember our post on the Nissan Leaf, a fully electric car that can go about 100 miles on one charge. The kicker is, what if you have to go more? The answer for that is the Chevrolet Volt.
This is going on sale late next year for about $40,000 [...]

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