Think of Your Car as an Ipod
Shouldn’t Detroit be thinking “outside of the box” when it comes to developing new auto technologies? Well, software executive Shai Agassi’s company based in Palo Alto, Calif thinks so. Just think of your car as the Ipod of the future using renewable energy.
The Better Place electric car charging system involves generating electrons from as much renewable energy — such as wind and solar — as possible and then feeding those clean electrons into a national electric car charging infrastructure. This consists of electricity charging spots with plug-in outlets — the first pilots were opened in Israel this week — plus battery-exchange stations all over the respective country. The whole system is then coordinated by a service control center that integrates and does the billing.














