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Jun 13, 2012 · Just opposite the Better Place visitor and sales center is an enormous parking lot filled with unsold off-lease company cars. Three-year-old French sedans with 40,000 miles (65,000km) can be had ...
May 21, 2012 · After more than US$400 million in outlays and months behind schedule, dozens of electric cars have hit the road in Israel, the test site Agassi chose for his Better Place venture. Four stations where the cars can get a new dose of juice when their batteries run out are operating, and the plan is to ramp that number up within months.
MAY 25 2013 - Better Place, the electric-car service that pioneered battery swapping for passenger cars, filed for bankruptcy this day in Israel. A statement on the Better Place website said it had applied to a court for an orderly dissolution of the company to protect "the rights of its employees, customers and creditors."
Mar 24, 2011 · With this exponential rate of sales by 2015 Better Place will be selling 50% of all cars in Israel and by 2020 90% of all cars sold in Israel will be Better Place electric cars. Other automakers will see this rate of sales and will join Better Place as their Battery Switch Stations can serve any kind of battery swappable cars, moreover.. ..
May 24, 2013 · In April, the Israel Corporation, the largest investor in Better Place, reported that the company had lost $454 million in 2012 alone, with just $7 million in revenue in 2012 and an operating loss ...
Apr 28, 2014 · John Voelcker April 28, 2014 Comment Now! The remarkable scope, overwhelming ambition, and epic failure of the Better Place electric-car service in Israel is worthy of a book, or several.
Apr 24, 2012 · The sole electric car sold in Israel is Better Place's Renault Fluence ZE. The local Chevrolet importer confirmed plans to bring the Volt to Israel, but could not quote a price and gave a vague 6 ...
