Battery electric vehicles

Electric cars have large batteries that go mostly unused for hours at a time. But a team of researchers in Delaware are hoping to use these electric cars to improve how the national electric grid works. So far, the results are promising. And it could provide benefits to electric car owners, too.

In California, three companies have started up to allow car owners to connect with people are who are looking for cars to rent for a few hours. The pitch is that it’s an environmentally friendly way to share your car, make a few bucks and not worry about liability.

Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, has a bold plan involving the creation of the infrastructure necessary to support electric vehicles.

Entrepreneur Shai Agassi says he has a better idea — better than Ford, GM, or Toyota ; he wants to clean up the world one electric car at a time.