{"id":333,"date":"2009-08-26T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=333"},"modified":"2009-08-26T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:25:48","slug":"better-place-electric-taxis-coming-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/08\/26\/better-place-electric-taxis-coming-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Place electric taxis coming to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/08\/better-place-taxis\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Wired magazine<\/a> about Better Place (the company founded by Shai Agasi, that <a href=\"\/christian\/2009\/05\/15\/a-very-compelling-opportunity-for-electric-vehicles\/\">I initially pointed to here<\/a>) starting a pilot program in Tokyo for their all-electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the concept of removable battery packs &#8211; akin to filling up your car with fuel, as you do today &#8211; as a way to expedite the move to electric.\u00a0 I also love the idea of electric city cars &#8211; perhaps best represented by the Taxi.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this takes off and I hope we see more of this in the very near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great mention in Wired magazine about Better Place (the company founded by Shai Agasi, that I initially pointed to here) starting a pilot program in Tokyo for their all-electric vehicles. I really like the concept of removable battery packs &#8211; akin to filling up your car with fuel, as you do today &#8211; as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/08\/26\/better-place-electric-taxis-coming-to-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better Place electric taxis coming to Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-japan","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}