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X-Prize
In San Francisco this Friday, the Long Now Foundation will host a talk by Peter Diamandis, founder and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation, on X-Prizes. It got me thinking. Large prizes are great for stimulating the public's imagination, but do they make for good public policy?

Germany to launch electric-car ‘filling station’ network
Auto giant Daimler and German utility RWE will launch a network of 500 battery-charging stations next year, a trial meant to give electric car drivers the freedom to power up while on the go.

Autoland vor der Elektro-Revolution // Ex-SAP-Vorstand und Netzwerk-Gründer Shai Agassi warnt Herste
Die deutsche Autoindustrie hat nach Meinung von Experten die Chance, bei der Produktion von Elektrofahrzeugen die Führung zu übernehmen. Ex-SAP-Vorstand und Netzwerk-Gründer Shai Agassi warnt Hersteller vor halbherzigen Experimenten.

Transforming Transportation Globally
Shai Agassi speaks at the Beyond Oil Conference

The Road Ahead
There is nothing like high oil prices, panic-selling of big cars and the prospect of swingeing new penalties on carbon-spewing vehicles to concentrate the minds of the world’s carmakers. In less than two years something remarkable has happened. Technologies once regarded by horsepower-obsessed marketing departments as politically correct public-relations fluff, never likely to see the light of day, are entering the mainstream just as fast as the car firms can get them there.

[Israel] Revving Up Israel’s Automobile Industry
"Israel has some of the best automotive technologies in the world," said Paul Linden. He should know. Linden has over 20 years experience with some of the top car manufacturers, including GM, Ford and Toyota.

Plug in and drive
There’s a lot to chew over in Wired’s profile of Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation’s transportation system, and in the process rewrite the automotive industry’s business model.

The Future of the Electric Car
And the award for most intriguing energy story of the month goes to... well, August isn't over, but I'm nominating Wired's long profile of Shai Agassi, who's not quite the household name T. Boone Pickens is, but has an even more radical plan to end the planet's oil addiction.

Israel ‘on verge of becoming world leader in cleantech’
There are two stages in the life of any technology - development and implementation. According to analysts, Israel is becoming a world leader in developing clean technologies and, little by little, more of those technologies are being used to solve this country's own environmental challenges.

The Electric Car Battery Battle
The next five years will clearly be a transition period from the petro-car to the electric car. But this transition will feature an interesting horse race between two different battery technologies, a lithium-ion (Li-on) or an upgraded Nickel Metal Hydride [NiMH] powered battery.

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