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Mar 5, 2013 · Better Place: what went wrong for the electric car startup? After selling fewer than 750 cars in a major initiative in Israel and losing more than $500 million, the company's experience...
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...
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May 21, 2013 · Owners are now reaching out to local politicians and starting to lobby on behalf of all electric vehicles, even though Better Place still offers the sole plug-in car sold in the country.
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Jun 1, 2013 · Steve LeVine. 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...
May 31, 2013 · Martin LaMonica. May 31, 2013. Better Place, which raised some $850 million to build a charging infrastructure for electric cars, said this week it will liquidate its assets after failing...
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.
May 17, 2023 · Better Place was one of the most well-known battery-swap ventures. The startup was founded in 2007 and worked with automaker Renault, building a network of a few dozen swapping stations in...