Israel News - Seeking A Pollution Free Future - Soon In Israel Electric Cars

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5/7/08www.infolive.tv
21:04BBC apologizes for showing footage of terrorist involved in last week's bulldozer attack being shot
15:36Iran refuses to suspend its uranium enrichment activities
15:35Syria asks UN to exert pressure on Israel to stop its agression against Syrian citizens in Golan Heights
15:33Search for missing Bedouin boy continues
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4/7/08 11:16Steinitz: Israel must demolish terrorist's house today
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4/7/08 10:58Iranian Noble laureate calls for peace
4/7/08 10:57Barak, IDF Chief Ashkenazi to head to US for security talks
4/7/08 10:56Israel, Syria to continue indirect talks
4/7/08 10:54Palestinians hurl explosive devices at IDF force in Nablus; no injuries reported
4/7/08 10:52High Court rules body of rabbi's wife to be buried without autopsy

Is Israel ready for a battery operated electric car? Based on a Geocartography Knowledge group survey in February this year Project Better Place says two thirds of the public would like to drive an electric car and almost 50% of the public believe they will have no difficulty in adapting to a battery run car. Renault and Nissan signed a deal with Better Place in January this year to begin the mass production of electric cars. Infolive.tv attended a press conference organized by Better Place to hear about the car and a pollution free future.05/12/08

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practical support infrastructure for electric cars

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 02:56.

cities could earn more revenue out of their parking meters by adding electric charger to the meter. drivers drop in quarters for parking time plus additional quarters for recharging time.

Project Better Place is really, really dumb

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 00:24.

This scheme should be called Project Better Con. It resurrrects an old and descredited scheme of swappable battery packs. The con is that a plug-in hybrid, which are convenient and don't require costly lease agreements and monopolistic supply schemes, can everything that Nissan's short ranged EVs can do, and don't require enormous new infrastructures in order to do so. Agassi's scheme, by requiring way more battery packs than client cars, has the strange and uncomfortable effect of maximizing the cost of the most costly component in an electric car - the battery. His plan will eliminate a lot of taxes now paid in gas sales and drain the treasury. His scheme only looks reasonably priced because it is replacing a horribly expensive fuel system that now exists. A plug-in hybrid like the Chevy Volt, out in 2010, two years before Agassi's horribly thought out scheme, can accomplish everything that Agassi's fleet of battery-only EVs can accomplish. It can easily eliminate over 98% of gasoline usage and allow ethanol to provide any liquid fuel still required for trips. Agassi's shceme seems designed to extract the most money possible from the consumers. And if EEStor devices work as planned, his acheme will be obsolete 4 years before the first renault EV is delivered. Israel really screwed up when they gave Agassi a green light to raid their countrymen's wallets. Politicians are morons when it comes to technology, and this is a perfect example. It is, hoever, funny to watch grown men make such stupid mistakes. Israel didn't even debate the issue. They deserve all the pain they will garner from their rash and braindead decision.