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Toyota Challenges Coulomb, Better Place With Solar-Powered EV Charging Station

Until now, the EV charging station sector has been dominated by high-profile start-ups like Coulomb Technologies and Better Place. Toyota, determined not be left out of what promises to be a booming business, has decided to build ...READ»

Branding Better Place: Building an Electric Vehicle Movement

A grassroots-level campaign helps to introduce and explain a new award-winning system for charging and using electric vehicles.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies

Better Place, Renault Sign Mega-Deal for 100,000 EVs by 2016

Better Place, a Silicon Valley electric vehicle infrastructure startup, has stepped up its game--first with the announcement of an in-car piece of software that checks battery charging options, and now with news of a partnership ...READ»

How Should We Define "Design"?

When everything from solutions for social problems to smart business plans are getting heralded as design solutions, where do we draw the line?READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

The World's Richest Design Awards Announced

The INDEX Awards hands out 500,000 euros to winners in five categoriesREAD»

Better Place Installs First Battery-Swap Stations for Electric Taxis in Tokyo

Earlier this year, electric vehicle infrastructure company Better Place tested out its EV battery switch technology in Yokohama, Japan. Apparently the Japanese government was so impressed that it gave Better Place cash to conduct a ...READ»

Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

ETV Motors Building Hybrid Electric Car Powered by Jet Turbine Engine

The plug-in electric car business is still in it's infancy, but that hasn't stopped start-ups from experimenting with new ways to charge and run EVs and plug-in hybrids. Enter ETV Motors, an Israeli start-up that has built a Toyota ...READ»

How To Make Electric Cars Go Mainstream: Sell Batteries Separately

What's stopping electric cars from dominating vehicle sales? Price. More specifically, the high price of EV batteries, which jack up overall vehicle costs considerably. So it comes as no surprise to learn that UC Berkeley ...READ»

Better Place Unveils EV Battery Swap Station in Japan

Israeli electric car infrastructure company Better Place inched closer to creating an electric car revolution last night when it unveiled its first automated battery swap station in Yokohama, Japan. The $500,000 car wash-like ...READ»

Nissan Bringing Electric Vehicle Charging Corridor to Arizona

Tack on Phoenix, Arizona to the growing list of U.S. cities that plan on developing an electric vehicle (EV) charging network with guidance from Renault-Nissan. The car company, which will sell its lithium-ion powered EVs to ...READ»

Fast 50 Follow-Up: 10 Companies We Missed

When we last checked in with innovation expert Dev Patnaik, CEO of growth-strategy firm Jump Associates, he was chiding us for heralding company innovations--as opposed to innovative companies--on last year’s Fast Company 50. ...READ»

Car Charging Stations at the Ready--In Israel

Shai Agassi’s electric car service station company, Better Place, was the subject of a page one business story in today’s New York Times. While Agassi estimates his dream of a network of such stations in the US is unlikely ...READ»

Tech Watch: Australian Companies Fund Electric Vehicle Grid

Better Place, a US firm that builds plug-in stations for electric cars, has just landed a $667 million USD deal to build charging networks in Australia’s three largest cities. Like smaller-scale Better Place deals already underway in Denmark and Israel, the Australian charging network will allow battery-powered and hybrid car-owners to charge their vehicles at thousands of locations, or have their vehicles batteries swapped out for faster fill-ups. READ»