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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.
- 2007
- Transport
- Shai Agassi
- Venture backed private
Mar 5, 2013 · 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...
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Aug 31, 2017 · What happened to Better Place's electric dreams? One of Israel’s most inspirational startups set out, but failed to build a nationwide infrastructure to support 100-percent electric...
May 23, 2023 · By Brian Blum. May 23, 2023, Updated May 24, 2023. It was an ignoble ending to what was one of the most buzzed-about startups in Israeli history. On May 26, 2013, Israeli electric car network pioneer Better Place declared bankruptcy. Yet now, even a decade later, Better Place’s impact is still being felt.
Jun 25, 2013 · Better Place was founded with the goal of being a game-changing company. Agassi predicted he would sell 5,000 cars by 2011 and that electric cars would be the majority on Israel’s roads by 2016.
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 15, 2012 · It’s this software that Better Place claims will enable it to add 2 million electric cars in Israel without requiring any updates to its electrical grid - that’s more than 9 times...
