Better Place is a green-minded start-up that wants to bring electric car charging and battery swapping stations to the masses. Recently, they announced a partnership with Tokyo’s Nihon Kotsu taxi company. The taxi fleet will be the first to go all-electric with swappable batteries.

The partners will get started on this ambitious pilot project using Better Place’s infrastructure in January 2010. The project’s battery-swapping station will be located in the Roppongi Hills area of Tokyo.