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Better Place is shutting the doors of its Australian and American operations, and will concentrate on its Danish and Israeli divisions. The New York Times reported the news just days after Evan Thornley, head of Better Place Australia, left his post as CEO after just three months on the job.
Commeter Autobraz linked to this informative (and politically heavy-handed) article written by an Israeli expatriate over at Daily Kos regarding Better Place and some of the shenanigans that occurred since its in…
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Better Place, a company that provides charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, said it would concentrate on Denmark and Israel.
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Two thirds of car buyers expect their next model to provide much or somewhat better fuel economy, based on the latest survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. And it turns out fuel prices aren’t the only key motivator.
Around one quarter (28 percent) of those interviewed said they don’t expect fuel economy will change when moving from their current vehicle to their next one, while just 5 percent expect somewhat worse or much worse fuel economy. Considering most consumers are looking at …
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Submitted for your approval, we find the following Yahoo! News story that should be of some interest to auto-heads the world over: Would-be Carjackers foiled by stick shift:
An attempted stickup was confounded by a car’s stick shift, when would-be carjackers failed to understand the mechanics behind a manual transmission.Randolph Bean tells WOFL FOX 35 that two men attempted to steal his 2002 yellow Corvette at gunpoint outside an Orlando hospital, but they ended up running away after they couldn’t f…
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Better Place Australia’s future is in serious jeopardy after its CEO resigned, amid plans to restrict new investment to Israel and Denmark, Better Place’s main markets.
Evan Thornley, Better Place Australia’s CEO, stepped down just three months into the job. A note released to his staff, obtained by The Australian, said:
“…in recent times, strong and honestly held differences have emerged at the most senior levels of the company about how we best take the company forward&#…
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Jan.28 (GMM) James Key, Toro Rosso’s new technical boss, says the Faenza based team is “superior” to Sauber in some ways.Briton Key moved to Red Bull’s second team late last year, replacing Giorgio Ascanelli.He is quoted by Russia’s f1news.ru: “After Force India and Sauber, Toro Rosso is the third team I have worked with.”On the one hand, they are all a bit alike, but as they are three teams from three different countries, they each have an unique culture.”In Toro Rosso I have to solve some new problems …
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Orange You Glad It’s Time For Hot Chocolate? The color of tableware influences the way we perceive our food. A creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste and smell sweeter than it would taste served in plain white or stark red, according to European scientists. This adds to the growing set of studies that claim the vessel in which our food is served can have a dramatic effect on the way our senses perceive the food. In what may have been the easiest volunteer experiment ever, 57 pe…
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Nano Rainbows King’s College LondonPotential to make better solar cells? Check. Improved televisions down the road? Check. Pretty? Check. It’s difficult to manage color when you get to the nanoscale, but researchers from King’s College London have found a way to trap light on nanostructures. Based on the shape of the structure, they can capture a rainbow created on gold film that’s 100 times smaller than a human hair. Unlike a real rainbow, then, researchers can manipulate the structure to control where …
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Shai Aggasi, the visionary behind the Better Place EV battery swap network, has been ousted, with Better Place Australia’s CEO replacing Agassi as global CEO.
The news comes from Just-Auto, which carried Better Place’s official statement on the management change. Agassi will stay on as a board member and retain his stake in the company. Better Place has lost nearly $500 million since its foundation in 2007.
BetterPlace customer IsraellyCool has some interesting takes on the company from the…
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