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Tom Hanks explains to David Letterman about the advantages to electric cars, and hybrids.

Smart-charging electric cars. Video made avaiable via The News Market.

Carlos Ghosn, Renault Chairman and CEO, unveiled Renault’s upcoming zero-emission vehicle line-up of four electric concept cars at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show: Twizy, ZOE, Fluence and Kangoo.

Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of Project Better Place, a company focused on the early 21st century’s biggest challenge - a scaleable and sustainable personal transportation system. In this role, Agassi works directly with governments, finance, automobile manufacturers and technology companies to install, scale, and operate a regional and global infrastructure necessary for electric vehicles. With a personal passion in solving large-scale social and environmental issues, Agassi believes in utilizing technology and capital markets to address the challenges of sustainability and climate change. With Project Better Place, he will manage the operation of international electric vehicle fleets by investing in, installing and operating countrywide charging infrastructures for electric cars, as well as working with partners to make the cars available.

We drive Renault’s new electric vehicles.

Los Angeles Times automotive critic, Dan Neil, takes a drive in the plug-in electric Audi e-tron concept car that seems ready for production. Read more at bit.ly Video by Jeff Amlotte / Los Angeles Times

Complete video at: fora.tv Better Place CEO Shai Agassi discusses his ideas for mass public adoption of electric cars. Agassi’s plan calls for charging outlets at parking spots for city driving, and battery switching stations for traveling extended distances. —– Shai Agassi deliveres the 2009 Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lecture, outlining how through smart business, improving technology and changing public policy, the electric car revolution can commence. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Shai Agassi is the founder and chief executive of Better Place, the leading electric vehicle services provider. He is focused on one of this century’s biggest challenges, moving the world from oil-based to sustainable transportation. Agassi works with government leaders, auto manufacturers, energy companies and others to make his vision “zero-emission vehicles powered by electricity from renewable sources” a reality in countries around the globe. Agassi’s visionary leadership with the Better Place model has been recognized widely. TIME Magazine named him to the 2009 TIME 100, the world’s 100 most influential people, and one of TIME’s “Heroes of the Environment 2008.” Fast Company placed him third on its “100 Most Creative People in Business” list. Most recently, Scientific American Magazine named him to the 2009 Scientific American 10, a select group of 10 people who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring the benefits of new technologies and knowledge will accrue to …

ISRAEL21c.org sees the future of transportation in Israel, and it’s all green. Through Shai Agassi’s innovative “Project Better Place,” Israel will become the first country to mass produce electric cars.

There is a quiet revolution taking place on the streets of America. Gas prices are rising out of sight and into view comes the vision of the future: a conventional electric car that has four wheels, a realistic range, and a price tag of $10500. The use of the word Revolution here is both figurative and literal; that is the name of the new four wheel electric car offered for sale at Electric Wheels in Salem, Oregon.

In China, we meet a modern-day Thomas Edison who helped give birth to the country’s “knockoff” electric car industry. Chinese consumers in second-tier cities can’t get enough of these small, cheap electric cars that require 6 hours of charging to go 75 miles — at a maximum of 35 mph. Video journalist Jimmy Wang produced the video for TIME and the Asia Society. worldfocus.org