News, Videos and Press
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Electric vehicle and battery swap videos
Videos of the Better Place project and battery swap. Project Better Place Electric car battery switching station
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The five essentials to effectively “do” energy efficiency
Reflecting on my interviews with various leaders in the energy efficiency space there are five things you must have to successfully reduce energy use and carbon emissions. First you need leadership commitment. Second you need a ...
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Why 5 and 6 star homes won’t get us to the low carbon future we need
If you’ve bought a new home in Victoria in the last few years the builder would have impressed you by saying its an “energy efficient” 5 star home (or maybe even 6 stars). Unfortunately even if all existing homes were converted ...
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Canberra to be Better Place’s first city for electric vehicle recharge network
Yesterday Better Place announced that Canberra would be the first site in the national rollout of its electric vehicle recharge network. Construction of the network will begin in 2011, with services available to electric vehicle owners from 2012. ActewAGL - the electricity ...
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Linfox cuts energy use by 9%, on track for 15%
Linfox is well known for the “You are passing another Fox” sign on the back of its vehicles. But the company has also cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 9% in the last eighteen months, and is ...
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Imagineering a better place
Today I had the fortune to see Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, talk about his vision for the electric car future. Shai calls himself an imaginer – “I imagine the future and engineer towards it”. ...
