Better Place Wind Powered Electric Car Charging Stations Coming to Aus

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Wind Powered Electric Car Charging Stations Coming to Australia.

Project Better Place, AGL and Macquarie Bank will invest $1 Billion in EV charging infrastructure with 250,000 charge points each in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne by 2012. A123 to provide the battery packs.

AGL is the power supply partner and will use it's wind farms to power the charge points.

Macquarie bank is the finance partner and has a strong track record in infrastructure projects around the world including toll roads, airports and urban transit.

To date this is the largest planned roll out of EV charging infrastructure in the world.

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• Stations
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• to
• Australia

[semaconnect]

Great informative video on this. I lived in Sydney and traveled extensively throughout Australia and definitely know that either using wind powered or solar powered car charging stations would be an ideal fit for Australians.

[tsport100]

@Zamboro What planet are you from.... Ford and Tesla announced what? LOL

All the rest you're also incorrect about..... There are some Nissan Ev Taxi's TRIALLING the system in Japan... other than that no-one but Better Place have committed to that business model.

[Zamboro]

@XxSTICH666xX

The batteries would only need to last an infinite number of charging cycles if they cost an infinite amount of money. Since they have a finite price (around $10,000) it's possible to work out a per-mile fee for drivers who use them which gradually pays off the price of the battery over it's useful lifespan.

[Zamboro]

@tsport100

I didn't get it from a press release, I looked up the various car specifications myself. Google the Tesla Model S. You'll see that it has a better place compatible battery pack. Then google Renault's new line of EVs; the Fluence, the ZOE and the Kangoo all use the Better Place pack. Then google "Nissan-Renault alliance" for info on future Nissan EVs using the Better Place pack. On top of that, Ford just announced it will build a new EV with Tesla, which may also use the standard.

[jeffsandychelsea]

@cyborgtroy Well, we certainly standardized gasoline octane levels didn't we? Didn't all the engines have to be engineered to handle a certain octane level? It seems much harder to do all that than to design a universal shape for a battery pack.

[RetroGamerr1991]

@Zamboro Lets just hope we can get Renault in the US by then.

[tsport100]

@Zamboro Provide a link to the press release you got that info from?

[Zamboro]

@XxSTICH666xX

They already have agreed. Tesla, Nissan and Renault are all using the same battery pack, and Chevy is in negotiations to use it as well. The first Tesla car to use the swappable pack will be the Model S and the first Renault car will be the Fluence. Nissan's 2nd generation Leaf will have it, and the 2nd gen Volt will too.

[cyborgtroy]

Of course, the other problem is that you would have to standardize the battery packs, and electronics are not known for rapid standardization.