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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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First wireless charging road in the U.S. completed in Michigan

Teslarati

The road is located in the former Book Depository Building in the Michigan Central district, on a quarter-mile stretch of Detroit’s 14th Street. The projects wireless charging projects are actively happening in Sweden, Norway, Italy, Israel and a handful of other countries on the continent.

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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. Through the Gett app consumers can, at the touch of a button, book on-demand rides instantly or pre-book rides for later. In London, half of all the black cabs use Gett.

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

Baua Electric

To not point out Center East markets that undertake EVs lovely rapid, Jordan, UAE, and Israel having the BYD Atto 3 as their gross sales champion. The creator is editor-in-chief of CarNewsChina book. That govt backup provides Chinese language automakers self assurance to travel all in EVs and entire velocity forward.

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