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share this: vehicle re-charging root in the Bay Area? Palo Alto's Better Place is finally bringing its ambitious, city-wide electrical grid and battery reciprocate service home after staking plans to do the same in Israel, Denmark, and Australia. The plan just endorsed by the San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco Mayors (without coughing up any money), is scheduled to result in 250,000 mandate ports (for topping off charges), 200 battery-swap stations (for trips over 100 miles), and a driver service center by 2012 -- network planing and permitting will begin in 2009 with root deployment set to kickoff in 2010. Here's how it works, customers will receive a discounted price on static


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Update: Coincidentally, Tesla is inasmuch as a small, swappable battery for its Model S sport sedan that, indisputable to Elon Musk, could be changed "faster than you can fill a car with gasoline." Ah, synergy.

[Via San Jose Mercury News, Thanks KKH]

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