Better Place’s electric taxis coming to SF Bay Area, thanks to $7 million grant

San Francisco, San Jose and Palo Alto, California were all too happy to endorse Better Place’s electric vehicle infrastructure two years ago, but now the powers that be have invested some cash to get this show on the road. The Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission has dropped $6.9 million to purchase and build 61 electric taxis and four robotic battery swap stations to put freshly juiced cells in place — just like Better Place has been doing with Tokyo taxis since April 26th. Yellow Cab Cooperative and Yellow Checker Cab will operate the zero-emission vehicles, though CNET reports that they’ve yet to choose a particular type — perhaps we’ll finally see Mitsubishi’s i MiEV with a steering wheel on the left-hand side? PR after the break. Continue reading Better Place’s electric taxis coming to SF Bay Area, thanks to $7 million grant Better Place’s electric taxis coming to SF Bay Area, thanks to $7 million grant originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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