Better Place gets bigger

I've written previously about Better Place - a company whose purpose is to move the world away from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles. I checked the Better Place site today and I am excited that their various projects appear to be progressing nicely.

Better Place just demonstrated in Israel the charging station that they'll be rolling out in the rest of that country, in Hawaii and in San Francisco in the US, in Australia, and in Denmark.

Better Place has just announced that it will be building battery-exchange stations in Japan, also. It's the only foreign company invited to take part in that country's build-out of EV infrastructure.

Better Place's plan of battery-charging stations and battery exchange stations is pretty perfect for any island. I expect the Philippines, New Zealand, and various Caribbean islands to be working with Better Place before long. Maybe Puerto Rico, also.

I wonder how long it will be before adoption of this system in the non-island Ohio Valley. Some battery-changing stations on the network of roads between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville and Nashville would be sweet!