Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Technology, Clean Technology on Sep 5th, 2008
With the aura of an evangelist, Israel’s Shai Agassi is moving full steam ahead to revolutionize the electric car market, with Project Better Place. Essentially borrowing the model from the cellular market, Agassi plans to create a new electric car paradigm, where you switch batteries and pay for the lease of the battery (like [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, News & Politics on Jun 23rd, 2008
The Israel cleantech world is buzzing over BrightSource and its subsidiary Luz II. The companies recently invited the press to visit the world’s first operating solar thermal field in the Negev Desert, for creating clean and efficient solar energy. The 12,000 square meter test site will generate 1.5 MW of electricity.
Cheaper heliostats, no need for [...]
Posted in News & Politics on May 11th, 2008
The time is nearly here! The long awaited electric car will soon reach the masses: Project Better Place has presented its prototype electric car today. The smog may start clearing soon, we will see how quickly it catches on.
Project Better Place commissioned a survey, which claimed that one in every six Israelis said that they [...]
Posted in Business & Technology on Mar 17th, 2008
The public discussion of Israel’s water problems intensified last week, with Israel’s most respected newspaper, Ha’aretz, calling on water authorities to shift to regulating demand for the scarce resource. During the same week, a new study was released which suggested that a shift to electric cars could seriously impact water consumption in countries where this [...]
Posted in Transportation & EcoTravel on Jan 28th, 2008
We’ve been a little skeptical about the electric car project proposed by Shai Agassi. Israel relies still on heavily-polluting coal power plants; and a great deal of infrastructure will need to be put in place for this scheme to work.
Not to mention the fact that Israelis barely recycle.
That’s quite a jump from throwing trash out [...]
Posted in Business & Technology on Jan 14th, 2008
By now, many people have heard of the electric car grid project that Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi is launching with $200 million capital. Agassi plans to build a grid of charging stations in all parts of the country that would provide a free power charge to electric car batteries. The idea is to provide an [...]
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