Officially official: Better Place Denmark is born
Yesterday we told you of the impending announcement of a deal involving Denmark and Project Better Place. Now that it has been made official, we have the details of the agreement straight off the Project Better Place website.
Basically what we have here is the first date, in the form of a letter of intent, of what both parties hope will be a long and fruitful relationship. The stated aim of the entwining is to reduce CO2 emitted by the Danish car fleet. The parties involved are Project Better Place and DONG, which is an energy company owned mostly by the Danish government. Though not mentioned on the PBP website, other articles about the deal state that a country-wide network of recharging stations will eventually be installed, though no references to battery-swapping were made.
Besides emission reductions, DONG believes other benefits will come about through Better Place Denmark. "With this project, we hope to contribute substantially to reducing CO2 emissions from Danish cars. At the same time, we will achieve a new way of storing the unstable electricity output from wind turbines, as EVs are typically charged during the night, when the exploitation of power generation is low. This provides optimum exploitation of our resources for the benefit of the environment," said Anders Eldrup, the CEO of DONG Energy.
Hopefully the Danish project will serve as a model of how renewable energy sources and the electrification of transportation can work together with synergy to solve some of our more pressing problems.
[Source: Project Better Place]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave 3:48PM (3/27/2008)
Well, that sure does answer Robert Bryce's question about what to do with all the excess power generated with renewables. Glad to see PBP is taking off. Maybe an individual state will "buy in" to the project. I hear RI is small.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/03/17/the-myth-of-energy-independence.html
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Carsten 6:41PM (3/27/2008)
I Live in Denmark, and I think this is a very exiting deal, I would probably bye one of these cars when they become available, but it will depend on the total cost of ownership. Neither DONG nor PBP have stated how much it will cost to run the car on a daily, monthly or yearly basis, but they are comparing owning a PBP car, and driving it, to owning a cell phone and using it. For example: depending on how much you drive, it will become cheaper and cheaper to drive, something like buying kilometres (miles) for your car, like you buy minutes of talking time for your cell phone.
It is true that cars are heavily taxed in Denmark, it is a little more complex, but basically: when we bye one car, we pay for three, we have a car tax of 180% (that is to get a license plate, so you can drive on the streets), and on top of that we also have 25% sales tax. Electric cars are at the moment exempt from the 180% tax, I think until 2012 and then it might be extended.
DONG hopes to have 100 cars ready for the climate conference in Copenhagen 2009, so that the participants can have the opportunity to be transported in a non polluting electric car.
If you have any questions about Denmark post them and I will try to answer.
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Szafarz A 10:04AM (5/19/2008)
I am interested as agent
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Szafarz A 10:05AM (5/19/2008)
polease reply : how to contact producer
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Domenick Yoney 2:33PM (5/19/2008)
Szafarz A:
You can contact Project Better Place via their website, www.projectbetterplace.com
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