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Better Place is Testing Battery-Swapping in Tokyo

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Better Place 59 Seconds Average Swapping Time Better Place , in collaboration with the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Nihon Kotsu Co., Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, has been doing real-world testing of a battery-swapping station in Tokyo. The trial, which started last April and has just been extended until November, aims to determine the “feasibility of battery switch as means for taxis to have instant, zero emission, range extension.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Packaging That Turns into Trees and Flowers

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image from zeroemissionbook Suddenly everyone is doing it: turning “paper” packaging into something plant-able and grow-able. Be it book covers, boxes, or wrapping paper, now you can have both: a nice wrapping and a good end to it. First off, summer reading: novelist James Kaelan’s first novel, We’re Getting On , has a cover made of birch seed paper — so when you’ve finished reading it you can pass it on to a friend OR you can plant it. Calling it a zero emission book, the pages are made out of recycled paper and his book promotion… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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