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May 23, 2023 · How Better Place helped Israel get to a better place in the EV market. It crashed and burned big time, but the well-funded Israeli company that tried a battery-swapping model still managed to blaze a trail for today’s electric vehicle sector. An electric car in front of Better Place on the day the company closed, May 26, 2013.
Better Place was a venture-backed international company that developed and sold battery charging and battery switching services for electric cars. It was formally based in Palo Alto, California, but the bulk of its planning and operations were steered from Israel, where both its founder Shai Agassi and its chief investors resided.
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Aug 31, 2017 · That was the aim of one of Israel’s most inspirational startups, Better Place, which set out to build a nationwide infrastructure to support 100-percent electric cars. While Better Place went ...
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...
Mar 5, 2013 · What’s harder to understand is why things have gone so badly. Better Place, which staked out its position in the electric car market with an innovative battery-swapping technology, has sold only about 750 cars in Israel, while piling up losses of more than $500 million.
Jun 1, 2013 · Published June 1, 2013. Elegies for high-profile tech startups typically depict their failure as oh-so-predictable. So it is with Better Place, an electric-car venture on which some of Wall Street ...
Sep 28, 2017 · Valuable lessons to learn from the crash of Better Place. The monumental failure of Israel’s ambitious electric-car network could lead the way to success according to the author of a new book exploring the demise of the company. Better Place headquarters in better days, October 2011. Photo by Serge Attal/FLASH90.
