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Of course, the -road- it travels on supplies it with power...

See /. article:

+ http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/06 ... work-opens

At www.betterplace.com/the-company/press-room we find: "Better Place Files Court Motion in Israel for Appointment of a Temporary Liquidator Tel Aviv, May 26, 2013; Better Place announces that it has filed a motion with the Lod District Court today to ask for [1.] the dissolution of the company and [...

Well, I assumed readers would grok, that my quote-marks
indicate that all the words between -pairs- of them are
from another writer's pen... just like the following:

"These are not my lies! They're other peoples lies!"
(from an old Yiddish humor - in translation - album)

BetterPlace.com.au is also alive & happy looking... inviting folks with a -commercially-manufactured- EV (of selected brands) to become members: "Better Place has membership packages available to support the + Holden Volt, + Nissan Leaf and + Mitsubishi i-MiEV. A Better Place membership package conn...

So, I'll add to my list:

+ Tasmania (a 3rd real island, but it's also a place that reportedly generates hydro electricity)

Also - on YouTube - the "official" Better Place channel seems to be uploading videos, eg, this one, fron 1 month ago: + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69t-CAchEDc I guess Denmark, etc. have more vision & spare capital to apply to creating a Green Future than Aussies do, eh? We have TV shows showing...

Hmmm... BetterPlace.com is still up and looking alive & well...

Perhaps you mean it's scratched AU off its list...

If not, what...?

So, what was - in your view - inaccurate in the orig post?

It's not for Better...

So, Better Place's Shai Agassi has spoken of releasing / marketing his company's battery-swappable EVs for use in "transport islands" - eg, Israel, Denmark, Hawaii & here in AU. Now, I'd like to use a "micro-level" definition of Trans- port Island" than his, so we can consider -commercial- release /...

Short-Term thinking disappoints me... I'm confident that even folks who may be suffering "can't imagine that ever working here" -will- get & use (when it finally arrives) SAFE, GREEN THORIUM: + eg: Liquid Fluoride THORIUM Reactors (LFTR's) Cf Sorensen's 10-min talk on TED.com For the details, search...

Go for 1000 miles (sic), but stop every 200 mi for H2O: + http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23/199248/will-future-tesla-cars-use-metal-air-batteries "Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries? .. 2013.04.24 .. from the powered-by-the-tears-of-oil-execs dept. thecarchik writes: "Most advocate...

A quick excerpt from Wikipedia reminds us that some -early- EV's good range: "Production of the electric automobile, powered by a rechargeable lead acid battery, began in 1907. For an additional $600.00, an Edison nickel-iron battery was available from 1911 to 1916. The cars were advertised as relia...

Article from /. "A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy" Posted by timothy on Thursday December 06, @12:10PM from the fallacies-on-display dept. curtwoodward writes "Advanced battery maker A123 Systems was supposed to be one of the marquee names of the U.S. cleantech manufacturin...

Someone asked if their Prius could serve as self-charging battery supply for their Amateur Radio Station; a Toyota Prius tech chimes in with info, along the way. From a US forum for Radio Amateurs, et al.: + http://www.eHam.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,83390.0.html The inventor of APRS (Amateur...

"It's not easy for the forum software to lookup if you have paid your membership. Admin would have to get the up to date list of financial memebers, your personal details, forum details. Then assuming it was even possible in the software manually change it for you." C'mon, it's -easy- to build-in an...

Funny - isn't it? - that at the 2012 Adelaide Royal Show - folks sent by a local Toyots dealership knew nothing about any 100% electric Prius's. Not only that, the guy I spoke with there said he doesn't expect to see Toyota selling EV's in AU... ever. Given the Norwegian study on the environmental i...

As long as: 1. Fuse is rated for, say, 5 Amps, and 2. Owner is patient I don't a major issue. Maybe the Volt will be the car for pensioners :-) or the subest of them, who have time to spare)! PS Seriously, this may be GM's low-cost "solution" of the "How to avoid complaints from power genera- tion c...

The advice we've been hearing... on HOW TO REDUCE ENGINEER's FEES is: Get them in EARLY. Throwing huge numbers around, without knowing more about each case isn't helpful. I seem to recall a cost of $160 (or under $200), supplied by someone who also told me that he had the engineer in long before beg...

Some folks -still- believe that Battery Swap Stations'
-only- purpose is to charge batteries & swap them into
EVs, whose compatible & swappable batteries have run [nearly] flat.

Didn't you watch any of Shai Agassi's talks on TED.com
and/or FORA.tv (also on YouTube.com)?

U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells Posted by Soulskill on 2012.05.18 21:32 from the sunshine-of-your-love dept. New submitter kimtysirt sends this excerpt from a Bloomberg report about US tariffs for Chinese solar panels: "The US yesterday imposed tariffs of as much as 250 percent on Chines...

As OVERSEAS interest seems to continue to grow in EVs, I continue to see signs that Australia's interest has yet to keep up. ===================================================== Too Hard for Our City-Slickers; Rural Folks'll Do It! ===================================================== Is anyone awa...

From SlashDot.org, today: "Auto makers are launching a universal EV charger that charges an electric vehicle in 15 to 20 minutes. The standard, called Combined Charging System, has been approved by the Society of Automotive Engineers and ACEA, the European association of vehicle manufacturers, as th...

Take off the "blinkers" & you see a little more of the world. Hey, I use an Internet Radio to help me see a bit further afield, largely to preclude getting "stuck" wearing blinkers, when I need to be open to others' ideas & research results. The cited article -isn't- one of my most cherished discove...

Before you carve your survey into stone, may I suggest you visit TED.com & view the very recent talk by Amory Lovins "A 50 Year Plan for Energy" The guy is a Physicist, who can really communicate cleaerly (if quickly, maybe download the talk & play it slower in VLC if he's too quick): + http://www.T...