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The web-enabled electric car from Think

Because each vehicle is Internet-ready, you can text-message your vehicle to, say, check its battery charge. The City will e-mail you when it's time for it to be serviced. "If someone has a great idea for a software link to the Think, we say bring it," CEO Jan-Olaf Willums says. "It's the users who come up with those features. We just give them the platform."

ScreenHunter_1.jpgIt's funny that Ash and I were sitting in the Sheraton Park Lane with Richard Blundell of Think on Monday this week, then this article appears in Business 2.0 the next day with links to scores of blogs. Too bad we signed all those NDAs for Richard - it would be nice to write about all the stuff he told us, but I'm too much of a dependable sort to do that.

The article makes good reading anyway and makes Think sound a lot cooler technology-wise than any of the other players out there, Tesla included. I can't help thinking though that their $78 million investment isn't going to be enough to even get close to delivering all their dreams. This project could eat money.

Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 05:56PM by Registered CommenterChristine Gupta in | CommentsPost a Comment

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