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The Times They Are a-Changin’

Call it range anxiety – call it what you want. Electric car drivers worry time and again that they won’t have enough juice to make those long trips. And so, as is too often the case, the question of pragmatism becomes a hurdle for greensters and those on the fence. As they continue to push [...]

Rockin’ Down to Electric Avenue, Part II

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 [...]

“We Gonna Rock Down To Electric Avenue”

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 [...]