mercedes electric bus Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:45:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Mercedes Says They Tried EV Battery Swapping and It Didn't Work https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mercedes-versus-project-better-place-20090311/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mercedes-versus-project-better-place-20090311/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:45:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2974 I happen to be an electric car enthusiast. I like the idea of driving clean and having silent power underneath me. It's been talked about project Better Place lately, as being a system who uses a battery swapping infrastructure. IBM and the Danish government have involved in such a project and found it reliable. Mercedes, on the other hand, says they have tested the system in the 70s and found out it's not so safe.

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