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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...
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
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Sep 13, 2012 · It's been a little more than 100 days since I drove away in my first electric car, a Renault Fluence ZE, as one of the first 100 private paying customers of the Better Place company in Israel....
Apr 7, 2014 · THE CAR: The Renault Fluence Z.E. was the only vehicle to work with Better Place’s electric car infrastructure. Getty Images. The silver Renault sedan has four doors, five seats, and a body ...
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 Israeli’s ...
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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...
Dec 18, 2009 · An automated system accesses the battery beneath the car. 1. The driver swipes a card to activate the system, then drives into the change station. 2. A robot quickly releases the battery pack from ...
