Comments on: Project Better Place Unveils Prototype of Electric Car Recharging Station

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:13:26 +0000

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By: BOB

BOB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:50:35 +0000

GM BACK MANY YEARS AGO HAD ALL ELECTRIC SOLAR POWERED CAR WHICH
TWICE WENT COAST TO COAST IN AUSTRALIA ON JUST ON BORD SOLAR CELLS QUITE WELL BUT GM DID NOT GO THOUGH WITH THE ELECTRIC CAR HI PRODUCTION BECAUSE OFF POOR CEO ADMISSIONS TO MAKING THE WRONG CHOICES.NOW OF COURSE GM WENT BROKE AND WANTS MORE TAXPAYER MONEY TO BAIL THEM OUT TO MAKE CARS THAT ARE OUTDATED.
THERE ARE MANY CARS ON THE MARKET THAT CAN BEAT THE GM VOLT IN MILEAGE AND COST. (APTERA 1E IS ONE OF THEM)

By: Di

Di — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:03:46 +0000

It seems that people are rushing into this scheme without thinking of the actual user of EV’s.
99% of return trips will be under 100km and the need to recharge anywhere else apart from home or work will be unnecessary. Battery swaps will rely on all the EV manufacturers complying to Better Place’s batteries and systems which will be a minefield. No one will want to drive the same car as their neighbor and doesn’t take into account people’s desires to be different and have a choice of what they drive.
Then there is the cost factor. Currently an EV is at least 1/5th the cost to run as a petrol car. Better place will make it over half the cost so hardly a great saving for all the effort and expense.
There is an alternative though and it involves wireless electricity. Currently there are companies working on ways to utlise this with charging able to be done whilst traveling on the road.
Surely we should not waste precious investment money charging down the wrong road!

By: ZAP Alias

ZAP Alias — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:03:20 +0000

The fact that Better Place is seeing takers all over the world: Israel, Denmark, Australia, Japan, Portugal, and a couple of states in the US as well, proves the fact that EVs are a concept whose time has come! We shall be seeing more and more EVs in the times to come.