Israeli company builds infrastructure for worlds electric cars

srael launched an electric car program as part of a plan to end the countrys dependence on foreign oil. Of course by now, the idea of an electric car is not new. But it is still a challenge to produce enough of the vehicles and get them to travel far enough. Shai Agassis company, Better Place, is not just promoting electric cars but designing an entire system to service them, with battery charging stations. Many countries are expressing great interest.

Worldfocus special correspondent Michael Greenspan and producers Yuval Lion and Ara Ayer report from Israel.

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[dektronic07]

The critic from Frobes is basically just repeating the "Long Smokestack Theory", which has already been thoroughly disproved. The amount of pollution produced by a coal power plan powering a million cars is actually less than of a million gasoline car engines. AND, he ignores the fact the Project better Place intends to run their cars solely off renewable energy, for branding reasons, as renewable electricity is really an insignificant cost compared to the infrastructure and batteries!

[fuckmuhammed3]

Show me a muslim country can do that!!!

[xKlondikex]

@4Th3Truthful Instead of wondering, google "ARPA-E advanced batteries".

The Internet. Use it.

[Traviskolber]

@amol551 Maybe after a long time. Agassi already looked into hydrogen and concluded it would fail with the current tech we have.

[DOGMA1138]

@hablerz you do know there are no longer any checkpoints besides border crossings in Gaza and the WB right? besides if any thing else i doubt they'll need a full charge because i dont think suicide bombers will need to drive back..

[DOGMA1138]

@4Th3Truthful BP plans to implement Potassium-Ion based batteries which Israel pretty much is the largest exporter of due to the Dead Sea. The only thing Israel was good at for the past 30 years is staying a head and leading the curve in almost any new field of the hi-tech industry, from hardwre to software, and then to service based models such as SAS.. better check where that windows NT6/7 kernel code, or your Intel processor were made or developed, you might wanna switch to a Zion free PC :)

[amol551]

instade of using battery use fuel cell and fill the tank with hydrogen, hydrogen will be future fuel,  you can produce hydrogen by using electricity

[4Th3Truthful]

I wonder if Israel/Zionist/Rothschild/bank­ing/IMF/UN planned on having that lithium in Afghanistan before 9/11. I wonder what these car batteries going to be made of?

[sronsr]

@Ryunosuke1991 umm.... unlock the charging cable with your car key?