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 [...]
Magnesium Batteries: Another Potential EV Future
NASA Prototype Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery. Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting article last week about research into the use of Magnesium instead of Lithium in batteries for, amongst other things, the electric car raises some interesting points concerning which players are lower risk investment in what may become a rapidly changing technological space. First, the attraction [...]
