Energy Sources
CEO Shai Agassi states that the company's plan is to have the network's electricity generated entirely by renewable energy from solar arrays and wind farms if necessary, thus invalidating the applicability to the company of the "long-smokestack" argument against electric vehicles, which relies on the source of the electricity. However, achieving the 100% renewable energy goal may depend on the local electric grid's energy sources.
In Israel, where the first Better Place deployment takes place, the electric grid is based mostly on fossil fuels, rendering the renewable energy vision practically impossible in the short term.
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