Friday, May 24, 2013

The Final Nail

It's all over for Better Place.

Electric car company Better Place is planning to file for bankruptcy within the next several days,

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/24/exclusive-better-place-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

... the company underestimated the time and expense of everything...

Nothing else need be said.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Another Nail In The Better Place Coffin

The little support that Better Place has continues to decline:

Ghosn says he isn't confident that consumers will embrace the concept and will likely prefer the simplicity of a single rechargeable battery in their vehicles, Energi Watch says. So far, the feature hasn't been much of a selling point for Renault, which has sold about 2,000 Fluence ZEs. Compare that to over 50,000 Nissan Leaf sales since the model's debut in late 2011.

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/05/03/carlos-ghosn-says-no-more-battery-swap-cars/

Hopefully this poorly conceived idea will eventually be put to rest and we can move on.