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- Renault-Nissan agreed to manufacture 100,000 electric cars, tailored to Better Place specifications.
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Aug 31, 2017 · One of Israel’s most inspirational startups set out, but failed to build a nationwide infrastructure to support 100-percent electric cars.
- Victim of Its Own Success
- Calming Range Anxiety
- Swap It Out
- Better Batteries
- Moving on
The Tesla-Better Place rivalry is not mentioned much today, since one company joined the ranks of the most highly valued in the world while the other went kaput. But when both companies were still finding their footing, it was Better Place that was getting all the hype – and nearly a billion dollars of investment – while Elon Musk was ironically “b...
Better Place burst out of the gate with an innovative approach to the biggest problem with electric cars in 2007: range anxiety. Even the best batteries at the time could only provide 100 or so miles per six- to seven-hour overnight charge. So, Better Place built 42 switching stations across Israel. You’d pull into what looked like a high-tech car ...
Battery swap hasn’t disappeared entirely. Automaker NIO is building mobile battery swap stations for its cars in China. San Francisco-based Ample is pursuing a similar strategy in the US. But battery swapping has caught on most of all in the micro-mobility sector. Taiwan’s Gogoro has built hundreds of battery swap “vending machines” allowing electr...
Today, though, it doesn’t much matter – at least for passenger EVs. That’s because battery chemistry is getting better. All manner of alternatives to the current standard lithium-ion batteries are proposed (for some reason, they all seem to begin with the letter “S” – sodium, sulfur, salt, silicon and solid-state) that give better performance, long...
Meanwhile, former Better Place executives can be found at mobility startups, established companies such as Tesla, Uber and General Motors, and investment firms in both Israel and Silicon Valley. 1. Mike Granoff now heads Tel Aviv- and New York-based Maniv Mobility, which invests exclusively in mobility startups. 2. Quin Garcia is doing the same fro...
May 26, 2013 · Israeli electric car firm Better Place, which hoped to revolutionize driving habits in Israel and worldwide, officially filed for bankruptcy with the Central District Court on Sunday morning.
Feb 8, 2010 · Better Place Israel CEO Moshe Kaplinsky, a former deputy chief of the IDF General Staff, announced that the company had signed agreements with 92 Israeli companies that agreed to convert a...
May 26, 2013 · Better Place switchable batteries would offer electric cars unlimited range and reduce dependency on oil. Better Place. Reuters cited a report from Israel Corp., owner of about 30...
May 24, 2013 · Israeli electric car firm Better Place, which hoped to revolutionize driving habits in Israel and worldwide, will file for bankruptcy in the coming week. The trailblazing firm sought to...
May 30, 2013 · Better Place, the Israeli startup with a drive-in, swap-out system for electric car batteries, is bankrupt—but Tesla is stronger than ever. We tell you why.
