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Better Place May be Saved by “Captain Sunshine” – Yosef Abramowitz

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:43:08 +0000

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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Battery-Swapping Project Better Place Signs Important Deal With Chinese Utility

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:34:34 +0000

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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Better Place: Electric Car Battery Swapping Service Envisioning Worldwide Expansion

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:10 +0000

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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Automatic Electric Car Battery Swapping System by Better Place

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:46 +0000

I was talking in an earlier article about the possibility of electric car battery swapping systems installed on the roads, instead of gas stations. Mercedes did some testing back in the 70's, and concluded that a battery swapping system was both inefficient and dangerous if it would have been implemented with the technology existing at the time.

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Mercedes Says They Tried EV Battery Swapping and It Didn't Work

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:45:16 +0000

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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