Better Place and City of San Francisco Announce Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, San jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Better Place founder Shai Agassi announced today a partnership to establish the first electric vehicle infrastructure for a city in North America. Better Place already has EV community infrastructure project s in Israel and Denmark. It was thought that Hawaii would be a first target in the U.S. due to it’s limited geographic span. I am happy to see San Francisco again take the lead in innovating. Australia recently got the financing in place to support a Better Place project there. Though this is a city agreement it will likely go state wide.
With the Governor’s Conference Monday and Tuesday and testimony in Sacramento today on the California Air Resource Boards AB32 Measure, California is increasingly taking the lead globally in climate change policy and change initiatives. Better Place announced that California to be first state, and Bay Area to be first region for the electric vehicle infrastructure roll out. Commercial availability is targeted to begin in 2012. Leading up to that will be a $1B investment in the Bay Area to roll out the infrastructure out creating thousands of green jobs.
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco - Regional effort for Bay Area to become the Electric Vehicle Capital of America
Chuck Reed, Mayor of San Jose - Green Vision roadmap, center of clean tech innovation, partnership with Tesla
Ron Dellums, Mayor of Oakland - speaks to fighting poverty and pollution. Working with Van Jones on regional efforts on climate and community prosperity.
Press Release from Better Place
Ones to watch:
Michael Cox, California Student Sustainability Coalition, presented at at Governor’s conference on Climate Leaders as a Climate Champions representative - 11/18/08
Mike Zuckerman, Temple SF, presenting to California Air Resources Board as Climate Champion -11/20/08
Upcoming events: Check out Sustainable Brands International, the next conference series to be held Dec. 9-11, 2008, Miami.
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Better Place Community | Nov 20, 2008 | Reply
We are very excited to bring the electric car infrastructure network to the United States and happy to announce California as our first state to do so! Follow us on Twitter @bpcommunity to get to conversation started. We want to chat with you!
Sharon | Dec 5, 2008 | Reply
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henrique | Dec 9, 2008 | Reply
Better Place is cheating the whole world! They agree with corrupt states that these built the stations and Better Place makes money together with Renault and Nissan in a huge monopoly all over the world. But they will not succeed! Also because the batteries technology will not survive.
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