Following the ongoing saga of Project Better Place‘s steady process of world domination, we can now add a new country to the list: Japan.
The news just in is that the Japanese Environment Ministry is inviting Better Place to take part in their feasibility project for building a network of charging stations in Japan. Better Place is the only foreign company that was invited to participate in the project, which will begin in January in the port city of Yokohama and last for three to six months.
Better Place has already signed on to implement its project in places as diverse as Hawaii, Israel, California, Denmark and Australia.
Founder and chief executive of Better Place Shai Agassi commented, “Better Place is honored to participate in this groundbreaking program in a country with so much auto-manufacturing expertise and history.”
::International Herald Tribune
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[…] The tiny nation of Israel is stoked, because it could be the first nation in the world to adopt a fully electric car for the mass market. Its high standard of living, rising fuel prices, and small area make it a perfect pilot site for the Better Place idea – a highly networked grid of charge stations and battery replacement depots to make driving the electric car convenient. Unlike petrol-fueled cars as we know, electric cars can take hours to refuel. That’s why Better Place has developed a quick battery replacement depot, to avoid the wait. The depot was debuted in Japan last year. […]