Tag: shai agassi

Thermo-piezoelectric tires by Goodyear produces energy for your electric car

Like Israel's Softwheel for wheelchairs and bikes, Goodyear is asking: Can new ways of engineering tires extend the cruising...

Gnrgy Buys Better Place for the Price of an Apartment in Tel Aviv

At a bargain basement price tag of only $450,000 the Israeli startup Gnrgy has bought the assets of the...

Latest Purchase Deal for Bankrupt Better Place Company Falls Through

The forlorn photo of empty EV car charging posts says it all. Better Place, the electric car infrastructure company...

Interview With A Better Place EV Car Owner – Not Stranded Yet

Following Sunday's news that Israel's Better Place has declared bankruptcy we have to ask: what is going to happen to the...

Israel’s Better Place EV Company Dies and Files for Bankruptcy

It seemed like a sure thing five years ago, but today Israel's Better Place electric car company has pulled...

Rent an All-Electric Better Place Family Car in Israel

Now tourists can try out Better Place swappable batteries. For $65 a day, electricity and battery packs included. Better Place,...

Better Place EV Car Company to Close North American and Australia Operations?

Not long after firing its replacement CEO, the Israeli electric car company Better Place has alluded to Forbes that...

After Pep Talk to Better Place Car Buyers Last Week, New CEO Fired

Is Better Place hiring a new CEO? In a surprising article in the Israeli business newspaper Globes today, Israel's electric car...

Better Place EV Company Betters its Business Model?

Israel's electric car concept company Better Place has assured media that the company is able to secure investment to...

Baran Group Anxious Over $14 Million Better Place Debt

Inside a Better Place batter switching station: an idea born too soon? The fortunes of the Better Place electric car...

Better Place EV Company May Turn Into EV Gas Station

Israel's electric car company Better Place is going to experience an overhaul, and will manage its existing resources in...

Better Place Israeli CEO Quits EV Car Company

Better days for Better Place EV car company. Moshe Kaplinsky at the company's first battery charge station in 2008. It...