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GreenWay Sets New 24-Hour Distance Record For Battery Swapable EVs At 1,273 Miles (w/video)
GreenWay battery swaping Fully automated battery-swap company Better Place is gone, but the concept of battery swapping is still alive. In Slovakia, European company GreenWay is using a semi-automated battery swapping concept it launched in 2012. GreenWay is using the system on converted electric drive delivery vans. "Limited driving range is perhaps the most commonly u...
Dec 29, 2013
Battery Tech
Forbes Presents 6 Reasons Why Tesla Beats Better Place in Every Aspect of Battery Swapping
Tesla Model S "Electric Refueling" Vs The Traditional Gas Station Stop With Tesla successfully demonstrating the ability to swap a Model S battery pack in approximately 90 seconds, the world was once again introduce to battery swapping. You know, the technology that eventually led to the demise of Better Place. How can Tesla Motors do ...
Jun 28, 2013
General
Tesla to Perform "Live Pack Swap Demo" This Thursday (UPDATE)
Battery Swap Demo to be Performed Live on Thursday Evening "Seeing is believing," Tweets Tesla CEO Elon Musk. And we'll see precisely what's meant by this on Thursday evening when Tesla performs a "live pack swap demo" at it design studio in Hawthorne, California at 8 pm "California time." This now leads us to believe that when Tesla slipped that image of the Model S ...
Jun 18, 2013
General
Op-Ed: Don't Judge the Electric Vehicle Industry Based on the Failure of Better Place
Better Place is not an automaker, so don't judge the automotive industry based on the battery-swap specialist's failure. Only the Fluence is Impacted by Better Place's Failure We've seen far too many headlines lately that tie the failure of Better Place into the eventual demise of the electric vehicle. They're wrong. It just doesn't work that way. Bet...
Jun 16, 2013
General
Renault-Nissan CEO Ghosn Says Battery Swapping No Longer a Part of Automakers Future Plans
Obligatory CEO with Vehicle Image...Ghosn Says Future Renault-Nissan EVs Will Be Like LEAF by Not Featuring Battery Swapping. We've recently documented the struggles faced by battery-swap specialist Better Place, but the latest from Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn suggests the Better Place model is likely on its way out. Battery Swapping Just Doesn't Make Mu...
May 06, 2013