“Believe it or not, the electric storage battery — a technology that has been around since the eighteenth century — could change the economic course of the twenty-first century. Thanks to breakthroughs on the horizon, batteries qualify as one of 12 disruptive technologies that the McKinsey Global Institute has identified.” That paragraph is how a […]

Better Place is “accelerating the transition to sustainable transportation.” Located in Palo Alto, California, the company aims to “turn the dream of mass-selling electric cars into reality.” With Better Place, Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi, who founded the company, endeavors “to reduce worldwide reliance on oil with a market-based model and infrastructure that could potentially spur widespread […]