EV Central

MAY 1, 2024

Polestar has released the first details of its pioneering next-generation battery technology that will close the gap between recharging an EV and filling a combustion car with petrol. The key to the significant gain in charging speed is a new Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) tech developed by Israel-based battery pioneer StoreDot.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 27, 2012

Electric car infrastructure firm Better Place launched its first programme this week in Israel. The Californian-based firm which approaches the problem of recharging electric cars by using battery swap stations, launched its first wave of electric cars in the country as part of its partnership with Renault.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2018

BP Ventures has invested $20 million in Israel-based ultra-fast charging battery developer StoreDot. Using this technology, StoreDot is also developing a new type of electric-car battery that will aim to achieve a charging experience that is comparable to the time spent to refuel a traditional car. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The first, a male-bodied version provided by NASA, is named “ Commander Moonikin Campos ” after NASA electrical engineer Arturo Campos, who was the guy who wrote the procedures that allowed the Apollo 13 command module to steal power from the lunar module’s batteries, one of many actions that saved the Apollo 13 crew.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 5, 2021

For an electric vehicle, one of the major challenges is charging time. But a company called StoreDot from Israel successful in charging an electric scooter battery in Just 5 minutes. In general, electric vehicles works with electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs which include hundreds to thousand battery cells.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 12, 2012

Better Place is now rapidly ramping up the first full deployment of its electric-car service and battery swapping network in Israel, but the company has ambitious plans in other countries as well. In Israel, it's illegal for electric-car users to plug their cars into just any old wall socket.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Alcoa and Israel-based Phinergy have entered into a joint development agreement to develop further Phinergy ’s aluminum-air batteries. Aluminium–air cells are high-energy density primary (non-rechargeable) batteries originally developed in the 1960s. Batteries Electric (Battery)' Earlier post.). Stokes and Frank C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2010

Better Place has extended its switchable-battery electric vehicle (EV) taxi pilot in Tokyo ( earlier post ) to operate through the end of the year. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure. Kiyotaka Fujii, President of Better Place Japan.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2017

It's one of the Holy Grails for battery researchers and electric-car advocates alike: a battery that could recharge in the same amount of time as it takes to stop for gasoline. Some of that can be provided by charging at higher rates, as Porsche's proposed 800-volt system for 15-minute fast charging would.

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Green Cars News

MAY 17, 2011

The first electric vehicle as part of the Better Place project has been introduced in Israel. The service packages will include installation and maintenance of a home recharging system and access to Better [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Better Place, with support from the US Department of Transportation via the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, has committed to bring a switchable battery, electric taxi program to the Bay Area in partnership with the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

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Baua Electric

MAY 18, 2023

Greater than a decade in the past, a high-flying startup known as Higher Park made a billion-dollar guess that electrical automobile drivers would favor to switch depleted batteries for unused ones in mins instead than rate them for hours. “We want to be the gas station of electric,” says Hassounah. Within the U.S.,

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Electric Vehicles India

MAY 22, 2021

mile-long (1 kilometre) stretch of electric vehicle-charging highway between Milan and Brescia in Italy. The company is building the charging highway to test the technology for the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The trials in Italy will set an example of an innovative electric vehicle-charging road. Product overview.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 5, 2021

For an electric vehicle, one of the major challenges is charging time. But a company called StoreDot from Israel successful in charging an electric scooter battery in Just 5 minutes. In general, electric vehicles works with electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs which include hundreds to thousand battery cells.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 29, 2010

Read more in the San Jose Business Journal article: Better Place tests electric car system in Tokyo. said Monday it is testing its electric car charging system in with a taxi operator in Tokyo. The 90-day test with Nihon Kotsu is the final test before the Palo Alto company does a full system test in Israel this year, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and UK company Elektromotive, a provider of electric vehicle recharging stations, are collaborating in the Partnership for Zero-Emission-Mobility, with the aim of accelerating the installation of charging networks for plug-in vehicles in cities. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

The E-JET concept range extended electric vehicle from GAC. At least two Chinese automakers are bringing some of their new energy vehicles—hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric—to two of the major international auto shows in the first quarter of this year. Click to enlarge. Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.,

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Israel’s Ministry of Transport has given the go-ahead for electric car venture Better Place to import 13 Renault Fluence electric cars for testing. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Renault Better Place electric car batteries electric car battery swap stations Renault Fluence.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Driving a mile on electricity always costs less than using gasoline for the same mile. Now Better Place, the consortium wiring Israel with electric-car recharging stations and battery quick-swap facilities, has upped the ante: They claim their electric cars will cost $4,500 to $7,500 less than gasoline cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Nissan; the Pima Association of Governments ( PAG ), which represents the Tucson, Arizona region; and ECOtality are forming a partnership to promote the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in the area. In 2007, ECOtality acquired Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec). Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 20, 2009

The year of 2011 promises to be one of the most exciting in the history of motoring as electric vehicle services provider Better Place and car manufacturer Renault plan to begin production of tens of thousands of electric vehicles. It is expected however, that as production expands the cost of the battery will decrease.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

More details — and a nice namecheck for ‘Revenge’ – after the jump: Harris: Coulomb Technologies gets funding for electric car charging stations. “The director of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?&# is now filming the sequel, “Revenge of the Electric Car.&# Green Energy.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2010

The firm known for its work in extending electric car recharging infrastructure, opened the station after joining in a partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Tags: Electric cars battery Better Place israel japan station swap Toyko.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Batteries, particularly lithium-ion, store large amounts of energy but have more difficulty with high power or fast recharge. Conventional electrochemical supercapacitors store charge in electric double layers or in faradic reactions, permitting larger energy density storage on the electrode surfaces. Gary Rubloff.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Electric car infrastructure firm, Better Place is to wind down its operations in the US and stop investment in its Australian operations. That means the firm will be left to focus on its activities in its home country of Israel and Denmark, as the company tries to gain control its finances. According to Forbes.com, the [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

The battery-switchable fully-electric Holden Commodore developed by. EV Engineering in Australia ( earlier post ) recently unofficially broke the distance record for a production electric car, achieving 1,886 (1,172 miles) kilometers of driving over a 24-hour period. Source: EV Engineering. Click to enlarge. Source: EV Engineering.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

Having already established working relationships in Tennessee; Oregon; Phoenix and Tucson Arizona; as well as Sonoma County and San Diego in California; the Renault-Nissan Alliance will now be working with Seattle to add recharging stations for electric vehicles.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tritium partners Solcon Industries to provide EV charging infrastructure in Israel & Palestine. Tritium a global developer and manufacturer of direct current DC fast chargers for electric vehicles has a strategic partnership with Solcon Industries, a dynamic power electronics company. Tritium partners Solcon Industries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Capstone Turbine Corporation is introducing a prototype range-extended electric supercar using one of its 30 kW C30 microturbines as the generator unit. The CMT-380 features a lithium-polymer battery pack that supports an all-electric range of up to 80 miles. seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph. —Darren Jamison.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Renault unveiled four Lithium-ion battery electric concept vehicles that provide a preview of Renault’s range of production electric vehicles to be released from 2011 on: Twizy ZE Concept (city car); Zoe ZE Concept (compact car); Fluence ZE Concept (5 passenger sedan); and Kangoo ZE Concept (electric van).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

A second well is drilled close by and the steam is released into ten turbines that generate electricity. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil. And as a timely follow up to my story above, read yesterday’s NY Times article on Hawaii’s plan for Electric Cars after the jump. URL: [link].

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ryan Fulcher of Seattle Electric Auto Association, April 2006 CalCars and Maker Faire team ("PriusBlue" EAA-PHEV method later modified by Manzanita Micro as "PiPrius" testbed) King County, WA Contact Ryan Fulcher at webguy2007(at)eaa-phev(dot)org. San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007.

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