Can Better Place make Electric Vehicles work?
Clean Energy Intel’s Edie Lush caught up recently in Davos with Better Place Manager Yariv Nornberg. Catch up with the conversation here: Clean Energy Intel’s Edie Lush speaks with Better Place Policy Manager Yariv Nornberg Better Place is about making Electric Vehicles work. They are building switching stations that allow you to switch your EV [...]
ABB and Nissan To Develop EV Battery Recycling Solution
One of the usual charges laid against the electric car relates to the problem of what to do with the batteries once they can no longer be used in the vehicles for which they were designed. The potential for recycling has been discussed for some time. However, leading power and automation group ABB (ABB) has [...]
Tesla Conference Call Calms Fears
Tesla Motors had a conference call Tuesday morning before the market open to calm fears following the 19% fall in the company´s stock price last Friday in reaction to the exit from the company of two members of the engineering team. Key take-aways from the call: Contrary to early reports, Peter Rawlinson was not the [...]
EV Round-UP – Bullish Forecasts From Pike and the Pacific Coast’s Green Highway
There are a number of interesting pieces of news out in the EV sector today. A quick re-cap: Pike Research has produced a report predicting cumulative global sales of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (PHEVs) of 5.2 million by 2017, up from just under 114,000 vehicles in 2011. By the same year, cumulative sales [...]
Further Thoughts On AONE’s GM Deal
Last week A123 Systems (AONE) shot up 45% after the announcement of the company’s battery deal with General Motors (GM). The deal is unequivocally good for AONE. However, few substantive details have been released beyond the following – After a lengthy process that had become agonizing for AONE’s stock price, GM’s testing of AONE’s battery chemistry at the former’s [...]
