Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Better Place Electric vehicle ” miles ” company Better Place will likely go public within two years to take advantage of what many expect will be broader electric-vehicle adoption throughout the world, Bloomberg News reported, citing an interview with company founder Shai Agassi last week. Better Place will likely have one more private round of financing before filing for an initial public offering, Agassi told the wire service said.
QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank – Abandoned Israeli army bunkers along the Jordan River are providing a lifeline for bats on the endangered species list, researchers say. ? Soldiers left Israel's underground forts along the frontier with Jordan after a 1994 peace treaty between the two countries.
JERUSALEM – Scientists in Israel have developed a way of using satellite images to help farmers detect small-scale changes in climate and improve their harvests, a method that could bolster food supplies for an increasingly hungry world population. ? Rather than analyze the weather and topography of large swathes of land, the new system divides fields into smaller microclimates that guide farmers on the best way to work each individual plot. ? It tells them when it is best to plant seeds, when to spr
How many of the smartest people around the world should be allowed to come to the United States to live and work? Consider that the working U.S.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Europe/EU , Better Place Better Place continues to play the investment alphabet game, with the company’s Series C funding round netting $200 million of new financing from the likes of General Electric Co ( not a surprise at all ) and UBS. Even though many in the automotive industry are still skeptical of Better Place’s battery swapping plan, the company is covering its bases with a robust, more standard charging scheme that sells miles the way cell phone companies sell minutes .
Photos: via Recyclart There’s more than one way to recycle a can, and designers of this shining pavilion made of large, recycled cans in Bat-Yam, Israel demonstrate how a simple collection of cans can be used to re-define public space.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , MPG , Europe/EU , China Joint venture Chery Quantum Auto – owned by China’s Chery Automobile and Israel Corporation – will reportedly export three compact vehicles to Europe in 2012. Austrian supplier Magna Steyr will be tasked with developing the vehicles, according to Financial Times Deutschland . The compact vehicles will reportedly be built at a facility outside Shanghai, with annual production capacity pegged at 150,000 units
Photos: Ubico Studio We admit it: we can’t get enough of stump-themed furniture. And now, from Tel Aviv-based Ubico Studio comes this tongue-in-cheek creation, made from salvaged wood scraps, glued together and skillfully shaped to give the appearance of wholesome stumpiness
For the first time, researchers have sent a diving expedition into the Dead Sea, where they uncovered freshwater springs issuing from massive craters in the seafloor, along with a menagerie of microbes. ? Both finds were a first for the world's saltiest body of water, which is also the lowest spot on the planet
Five of the main Dead Sea scrolls, containing some of the oldest-known surviving biblical texts, were on Monday put online as part of a joint project between the Israel Museum and Google.