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Ontario to roll out Better Place car charging infrastructure

by Tom Raftery on January 16, 2009 · 3 comments

in transportation

Photo credit midnightglory
I was delighted to see news today that the Canadian province of Ontario is the latest to sign up to roll out Better Place’s car charging infrastructure.
Better Place is a California-based, startup that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles. Typically [...]

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Any questions for the Chevy Volt team?

by Tom Raftery on October 10, 2008 · 14 comments

in podcast questions

I will be talking to Greg Cesiel (pronounced SEE-SIL) this afternoon. Greg is the Program Director for the Chevrolet Volt – GM’s highly anticipated extended range electric car.
If you have any questions you’d like me to put to Greg, please feel free to leave them in the comments of this post or email them [...]

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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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