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Rich Lechner on Smart Transport June 09

by Tom Raftery on July 1, 2009 · 2 comments

in GreenMonkTV, transportation, video

I talked to Rich Lechner, IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment, the other day about the global problem of getting transportation right. According to Rich, in the US alone, congested roadways cost about $78bn per year so this is very much an economic as well as a sustainability-related issue!
We had a wide-ranging conversation about all [...]

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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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Would you buy a car if you had an option to (electric) car share?

by Tom Raftery on September 10, 2008 · 7 comments

in transportation

Photo Credit Cayetano
I live in Seville, Spain and this town has a wonderful community bike rental program called Sevici. This is run by the town council and JCDecaux and use of these bicycles is free for the first 30 minutes and in the order of €1 per hour thereafter.
You use an RFID card to [...]

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