{"id":152,"date":"2008-10-05T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/a-better-place\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:47:09","slug":"a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/a-better-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a while since I read about it in Wired<\/a>.\u00a0 Better Place<\/a> is a company formed by ex-SAP product chief Shai Agassi, it’s mission is to end the worlds dependence on fossil fuels for transport.\u00a0 No small objectives there then.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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To be honest I’d never heard of better place until a few months ago.\u00a0 I came across it while I was doing some reading into alternative fuels, and it struck me as a fantastic idea.\u00a0 The Wired gives a much better overview than I could, but in short Better Place proposes to build whole new infrastructures for the use of electric cars and vehicles.\u00a0 To help achieve this Shai has re-thought the business model we use for buying cars and fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cars are offered at a discount, subsidised by the energy companies in the same way as mobile phone companies subsidise handsets.\u00a0 As a customer you subscribe to a monthly energy tariff as you would a mobile phone.\u00a0 The phone becomes a car, and the cell stations become recharging points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Better Place and the energy companies building the network of charging points and providing a standardised battery technology, the car makers can concentrate of building cars to make use of that infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They’ve already got Israel and Denmark lined up, and Renault\/Nissan designing and building cars.\u00a0 Take a read through the Wired article and see what you think.\u00a0 It’s an idea that could change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a while since I read about it in Wired.\u00a0 Better Place is a company formed by ex-SAP product chief Shai Agassi, it’s mission is to end the worlds dependence on fossil fuels for transport.\u00a0 No small objectives there then.\u00a0 To be honest I’d never heard of … <\/p>\n

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