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Why electric cars are the future

by Tom Raftery on September 8, 2009 · 5 comments

in electric vehicles

Photo credit Djof
I was talking to an American friend the other day who had recently taken delivery of their new Tesla Roadster. He was really enthused about it. What was the thing which impressed him most?
He took the car for a spin over the weekend. He went over 100 miles on the journey. When [...]

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Better Place to charge US$0.08 per eMile

by Tom Raftery on April 28, 2009 · 1 comment

in electric vehicles

I have been a fan of Better Place and their unique model around electric vehicles since I watched Shai Agassi’s presentation at the DLD conference in January 2008.
If you are unfamiliar with the Better Place model, they looked at the idea of electric vehicles and people’s ‘range anxiety’ and asked how best to solve it. [...]

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