Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Better Place
Better Place Ireland?
It's hard to keep up with all of the places that electric car promoters/builders Better Place (and their Renault and Nissan partners) are trying to do business, but we've got to keep trying. The latest potential target is Ireland, where the government announced a plan to develop an electric vehicle network last week. The idea is to create a €1 million pilot project to help make 10 percent of Ireland's road transport fleet electric by 2020. Better Place hasn't signed on to make the move to Ireland, but the company did release a statement saying it "welcomed" the move and had looked at data that shows that 82 percent of Irish consumers "would be more likely to buy an electric car if the vehicle benefitted from lower levels of tax." What's up with the other 18 percent?
Gallery: Better Place Around The World
[Source: Better Place]
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megan 5:45PM (12/01/2008)
the other 18% probably live in Dublin and don't have room to park a car, electric or otherwise.
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Sherry 10:08AM (12/06/2008)
Jeff Wilson talked about this in his recently released book The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence NOW. I found it fascinating but thought it a bit futuristic. It is exciting to see the very plans he talked about in his book beginning to unfold NOW. Go Hawaii, Go Better Place, show the rest of the world how to do it…and go Jeff Wilson and your new book The Manhattan Project of 2009
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