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'Totaled' is the long, sad story of Better Place and its failure: book review

Green Car Reports

It is just over five years since I bought my Better Place Renault 2012 Fluence ZE in Israel—and a little over five months since I returned it to Israel’s Renault importer for a cash settlement. By that time, the 22-kilowatt-hour battery capacity was down to 11.3 I gave.

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StoreDot demonstrates 100 miles of charging in 5 minutes with pouch cell

Teslarati

Israel-based StoreDot, a manufacturer of extreme fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles, publicly demonstrated its ability to charge a full-scale EV cell with enough energy for 100 miles in just 5 minutes. A Tesla 4680-like cell replicated on mass-production line by Israel’s StoreDot.

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The Epic Failure Of Better Place, As Covered By Fast Company

Green Car Reports

The remarkable scope, overwhelming ambition, and epic failure of the Better Place electric-car service in Israel is worthy of a book, or several. But until one appears, Fast Company magazine has produced the most comprehensive article yet on the founding--and foundering--of the great Better Place experiment.

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Volkswagen Group makes $300M strategic investment in on-demand mobility provider Gett

Green Car Congress

A key partner in this area will be Gett, one of the leading providers in the European ride-hailing market with development facilities in Israel. In that context, Gett provides VW with the technology to expand beyond car ownership to on-demand mobility for consumers and businesses. In London, half of all the black cabs use Gett.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Ding Lei introduced quite a lot of revel in and his staff of car veterans to the corporate. Decisions are made quickly and efficiently, and they’re actioned, iterated, and produced in the time it’s taken a Western brand to set up a focus group on whether people like door handles or not,” says Mark Raniford, China-based car journalist.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

Baua Electric

Hayley Berg, lead economist for the booking platform Hopper , anticipates that for the next six months, domestic airfare will cost less than in 2023 and prepandemic years. Travelers booking domestic flights in February can expect to pay an average fare of about $276 round-trip — an 8 percent decrease from the same month last year.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. Think may use the former Freightliners plant site to employ over 1,000 workers that would ultimately expand to make 60,000 compact cars a year. market b y the end of 2009. The Norwegian company just last week met with Gov.