More Problems For Better Place

More bad news for Better Place, losing money as well as failing to deliver as promised. 

Shay Agassi's electric car venture Better Place LLC is facing delays in the deployment of its battery recharging and quick replacement infrastructure in Denmark as well as in Israel.

 Renault SA (Euronext: RNO), which directly markets its electric car in Denmark, has announced that it will launch the Zoe compact electric car in October. It considers the Zoe more suited to the Danish market than the electric version of the Fluence sedan, which is not popular in the country. Renault also announced that, until further notice, it will market the Zoe only with a permanent battery, rather than the replaceable battery "until Better Place proves that its organization and battery replacement system are functioning properly."

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000740448

  Better Place was expected to sell 115,000 electric cars in Denmark and Israel between 2011 and 2016, but the company is far behind those numbers.

http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/04/better-place-loses-millions/

Oops, who could have guessed?  Oh wait, me!  :)

Ghosn on Project Better Place, Not for The US

Ghosn says exactly what I've been saying about BP:

"You could not imagine something like this in a country like Austrailia, Russia, or the US."

Why does the head of the one large automaker who's actually working with BP make this claim?  Because he says the swap stations are too expensive.  Couple expensive swap stations with a small country such as Israel which can be entirely covered with a single recharge and it's pretty obvious BP isn't even necessary in Israel.  I'd love to see some statistics as to how often the swap feature is even used in Israel when this actually goes into operation.  As I've been saying for a long time, BP and swapping is completely unnecessary and likely to fail.
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