battery swapping Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:45:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Better Place May be Saved by “Captain Sunshine” – Yosef Abramowitz https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-yosef-abramowitz-20130610/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-yosef-abramowitz-20130610/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:43:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38218 Better Place, the Israel-based company that we’ve been talking about lately and that proposes battery swapping instead of charging, has seemingly found a savior in the person of Yosef Abramowitz, aka “Captain Sunshine.” Abramowitz, known for building Israel’s first commercial solar field two years ago, wants to purchase Better Place’s assets and start over… this […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-yosef-abramowitz-20130610/feed/ 0 38218 Better Place and CODA Partner for Airport EV Taxis with Battery Swapping https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-and-coda-partner-for-airport-ev-taxis-with-battery-swapping-20121016/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-and-coda-partner-for-airport-ev-taxis-with-battery-swapping-20121016/#respond Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:23:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26783 The fastest way to recharge an electric vehicle [EV] is not on an L3 480V charger, over 30 minutes, but to simply swap out the battery, which takes about five minutes. Better Place Mobility Services, an EV battery-swapping company, has charging and battery-swapping stations around the globe, and is finally getting a foothold in the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-and-coda-partner-for-airport-ev-taxis-with-battery-swapping-20121016/feed/ 0 26783 Battery-Swapping Project Better Place Signs Important Deal With Chinese Utility https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-china-20110504/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-china-20110504/#respond Wed, 04 May 2011 12:34:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18420 Besides being a place where you can manufacture things cheap, no matter what the processes' cabon dioxide emissions are, China is one of the most advanced countries when it comes to electric cars and electrification, in general. Project Better Place, an Israel-based company aiming at developing more efficient charging infrastructures has just signed an agreement with one of the largest Chinese utilities.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-china-20110504/feed/ 0 18420 Better Place: Electric Car Battery Swapping Service Envisioning Worldwide Expansion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-battery-swap-expansion-20100716/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-place-battery-swap-expansion-20100716/#respond Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8526 You may have probably heard of Project Better Place before - it's the business led by Shai Agassi that imposes itself a truly hard to get goal: to make a network of battery swapping and charging stations for the not-so-distant electric cars.

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