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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 · According to Gartner, the issues at Better Place won’t affect electric cars elsewhere. In the U.S., sales of the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Tesla Model S are all growing, albeit off a very ...
Apr 7, 2014 · With almost $1 billion in funding and ambitions to replace petroleum-based cars with a network of cheap electrics, Shai Agassi’s Better Place was remarkable even by the standards of...
May 26, 2013 · Founded in 2007 in Palo Alto, California, by a charismatic former SAP executive named Shai Agassi, Better Place sought in one stroke to solve a conundrum: most electric cars were too...
May 17, 2023 · Casey Crownhart. May 17, 2023. Stephanie Arnett/MITTR | Envato. Charging has emerged as the primary way people keep their EV batteries full of juice while on the go, but some companies have an...
Mar 6, 2013 · Better Place's founder, Shai Agassi, had a simple but potentially revolutionary idea. The knock on electric cars has always been that the batteries are too pricey and take hours to charge....
May 26, 2013 · Science. Electric car startup Better Place liquidating after $850 million investment. In 2008, Better Place partnered with Renault to build an electric car and create a system of...
