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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...
Mar 5, 2013 · Yale Environment 360: After selling fewer than 750 cars in a major initiative in Israel and losing more than $500 million, the company's experience shows that electric cars are still not...
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. By YAKIR FELDMAN. AUGUST 31, 2017 17:18.
- 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...
Sep 4, 2017 · (Brian Blum) The tale of Better Place, the pioneering Israeli electric car startup, and the 1,000 drivers who bought in only to see the firm go belly up less than a year after the first...
Jun 1, 2013 · So it is with Better Place, an electric-car venture on which some of Wall Street’s most seasoned hands lost a spectacular $812 million. But it is worth pausing over this Israeli company,...
May 20, 2023 · Better Place: Israel's electric car start-up killed by its own success - opinion. We must thank Better Place for helping to put the electrification of vehicles on the tech world’s...
