Making The World A 'Better Place'

[badskpr]

Now I hear you are waiting until 2014. Are you waiting for the Chinese to recall their United States Treasury Bonds and take over the government? Or that is when the tea party will no longer be in power. ZAP still has no charging stations and is plugging in to 110 AC for eight hour charge. While the Chinese section of ZAP Jonway is installing fast charging stations in Japan-China-Vietnam-Malaysia.

[badskpr]

I sent contact information. There are two projects ready to go now. Is "BETTER PLACE" ready to start this. Yes, I did talk toMs.Faizea. and I had to resend the E-MAIL. Let us get this going? I also have a fast charging station needed to put in at SOBOBA SPRINGS by 17 SEPTEMBER 2011 (NATION WIDE TOUR). Let us get this going despite the TEA PARTY TRUMPETS. YES WE CAN, I KNOW WE CAN. SO LET'S DO IT NOW!

[SunStreeM]

Awesome, electric cars for those who do not have oil, yes i support this!

For us however and our rich oil countries we shall have more oil instead of selling it to western nations and therefore use it for our energy and our own projects. If this means no more USA attacks and no more USA invasions. PLEASE!!! NOW!!!

[SimsenDK1]

israel is the biggest terrorist in the world... killing any arab they can get their hands on. It's like the case of the fat kid who was bullied in school who grows up to be the meanest person around... jews were treated horrible in europe by hitler & co. but in turn have ended up treating palestinians equally bad....a bloody shame

[Mishkafofer]

Step 1: Convinced Reno DONE

Step 2: Convinced 5 countries (Israel, Japan, Australia, Denmark) DONE

Step 3: Building Infrastructure

Step 4: Going commercial. IN PROGRESS

[MegaBradybunch]

Isreal was 1st because Isreal wants to own and control this also

[DOGMA1138]

@MegaBradybunch considering shai agasi is an israeli, and Better Place is an israeli company there is a reason israel was first :)

[Traviskolber]

@MegaBradybunch There is a reason to that.

1. Shay is Israeli.

2. All the other founders are Israel.

3. Israel is very pro-green.

4. Perfect spot for generating the solar power needed for the batteries.

[oferhen]

העתיד כבר כאן

[lilaznmage15]

Hmm... As a muscle car fanatic...

Do I want to hear a whine from an electric motor?

Or do I want to hear the deep roar of raw power from a v8 gas motor?

[Traviskolber]

@lilaznmage15 People that keep driving gas cars for the "feel" and the "sound" are pathetic.

Get over your selfishness of supposed "style" and realize you're fucked if you don't change over. Oil will be gone soon, so instead of fucking us all over, help us save the planet.

[aronchai]

@Traviskolber I'm sure there will always be a small core of gas car hobbyists--Just like there are people who build and run steam cars today. But their environmental impact will be practically nonexistent.

[coenenfrans]

This is so good and oh soooo real!!!

[I3lackl3ear]

lol the question is how much is the maintenance going to cost for the car...

[Already1have]

@I3lackl3ear

electric cars have only around to 5 moving parts compared to hundreds in a gasoline engine, so maintenance is almost non existent.

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wikipedia >> electric cars

[Traviskolber]

@I3lackl3ear Not much.



[MrJapaneseboy1111]

NO MORE OIL ! ! ! ! ! !

yipiiiiiiiiiiii !

[mesofius]

Bring this infrastructure to New York City. The faster, the better. We're waiting.

[MrJapaneseboy1111]

@mesofius its already runs in tokyo taxi company !

[mesofius]

@MrJapaneseboy1111 I know, this is amazing technology, it should be installed everywhere.

[Traviskolber]

@mesofius Go bitch slap the Congress, then gladly.

[nvspector]

Since I will owe a car I do not care much about how battery maid. Having all battery business "under one roof" will let to most efficient recycling technologies

[Plasmodic11]

Haha. When I first started looking into electric cars a few months ago, and thinking about their limitations, I thought to myself "Why not just have a battery exchange system at the service stations. Just common sense really.

[elwebre]

Idea is great but think about all li-ion trash (batteries die after ~1000 charges). This is just good business plan making use of pseudo enviroment friendly base while trying to charge service fee for lending you obsolete battery technology. There are some reaserches being made on large capacitors based batteries which would be perfect solution. But then this guy will have to charge only for current you use to charge battery which is obviously not where the money is.

[d1oftwins]

As far as I know Better Place will use A123System Batteries they will have about 80% capacity after 7000(!!!) charges. And have you ever thougt of recycling batteries. It is done with NiMH-Batteries, why not with Lithium?

And tell me more about these capacitor researches, please. I am really interested it this. Give me links, I beg for it, pleeaaaseee!!!

[indiasrainbow]

when the battery reaches near its end of use time, the battery is taken away at the swap station and recycled, lithium is to be used

which is recyclable. it takes aprox 1 min for a swap. and you wont have to walk to the cashier,( very quick compared to present method) Your funds are taken by the better place swap system. You can always park up, walk to the cashier and buy some chewing gum if you wish : P

[stri8ted]

skeptics will be eating their words come another 5 years when israel is running oil free.

[lewko1]

@stri8ted

If you think the Arabs hate Israel now, wait till they find out about this!

[Traviskolber]

@stri8ted Five years? Two.



[Adventurestud]

Shai Agassi or Shai Hulud?

Hmmm

[NationNewsAgency]

What will happen to Muslim nations?, All of them will start fighting for food when the oil is no more need or shall I say blow themselves up for survival.

[tri400]

Qatar exports Natural Gas, not Oil. Qatar will be fine.

[Traviskolber]

@tri400 Until that resource is gone, too.

[reaper450]

So your one of those blockheads that thinks that if a countrys name doesnt start with USA it not considered a major country

[SimsenDK]

Anthony: FYI, denmark is one of the most common testing grounds for upcoming technologies, especially environtmental tech. and have set the standard for many new environmental technologies over the years...so yeah, small country, but major exemplar.

[Traviskolber]

@SimsenDK And Israel is one of the leading scientific and technological countries in the world, despite getting fucked over by its enemies, AND its allies (boycotting and sanctions).

[TuNnL]

Oh of course, you and all the New World Order sheep worship the ground he walks on. No wonder the global banking elite have succeeded in destroying the U.S. economy in favor of convergence.

[TuNnL]

Thanks! Glad I could educate you on world affairs.

[TuNnL]

If you had watched the video, you would know they are Israel, Denmark, Canada and Australia. It's at 2:44 of this segment. Pay attention!

[TuNnL]

Since four major countries and the state of Hawai'i have already signed up, I would say it would be difficult for a private oil baron to accomplish that. The bigger challenge will be ramping up our electric grid. The Hawaiian islands have already had two island-wide power outages in the past four years.

[Sebastian198004]

I thought it was an interesting idea since I first read about it. I hope more countries, including the whole of Canada, will adopt it.

[agentsmithone]

Sign me up! I've committed to my Chrysler 300M being my last gas-operated car. I'm signed up for a Chevy Volt on its introduction but I'm open to this Better Place's model or the Nissan BEV coming late next year in TN.

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

They shouldn't call it "Making the world a better place" if you're making it better that implies it's already pretty cool, so why bother improving that. If they called it "making the world less crappy" I think maybe people might give crazy ideas more of a chance.

[2004JETTA]

Keep it up 5*

[CaptinsQuarters]

This is a great idea. However, they would need to make the cars go roughly the same mileage on a full battery as one can go on a tank of gas otherwise people may still be skeptical of using an electric car. One of the things keeping people from using electric cars is the price of the batteries. So by not actually owning the batteries this my be a huge hurdle in advancing electric cars as the main source of transportation. Great idea!

[tsport100]

Look, Why does an EV need to carry around a weeks worth of battery capacity? Over 80% of cars are driven 40 miles or less daily and most cars spend 80% of the time parked (avaliable for charging). If you can cover your daily commute for 1/10th the cost of driving an ICE then nightly charging is a minor change in habit.

One of the things keeping ANYONE from buying EVs is they are not for sale yet!!!

[CaptinsQuarters]

I don't disagree with you on anything that you said. But, my mere implication was that I don't think that people would fully replace their gasoline cars without it going roughly the same distance, which is close to being accomplished already anyway..... Tesla Motors another start up currently has a high end model that will go 220 miles on a single charge. They said that they will have one that will go 400 miles by 2010 - 2011 in a sadan model (different business process than this one).

[tsport100]

Tesla will be the last to have an EV sedan... they have zero resources and zero experience building cars. The 'S' is vapourware.

The ONLY drivers who NEED a car with 400 mile per day range are delivery van drivers who are on the road 10-12 hours a day... or rural drivers. The rest only need it for an annual holiday.

400 mile range requires a battery TWICE the size, weight & cost of the Tesla. It's 53kw/hr pack is 400kg.... that's stupidly heavy for a 'car' just to counter "range anxiety".

[ttoale]

I would buy one, but what happens while I'm at work? I get to fight my co-workers for an outlet to plug in my car?

[Traviskolber]

@ttoale There'll be plugs are every parking spot.