Better Place – pioneers of battery swap technology for electric cars – have opened a visitor centre in Israel to demonstrate their system and its progress. Last October we wrote about a start-up company in Israel – Better Place – that had a new way forward for electric cars by taking the purchase of battery […]
Hybrid Cars are like Mermaids: Carlos Ghosn
Better Place, in collaboration with Nissan, are working on a smart grid and battery swap stations for electric cars. I can’t say it’s an analogy we’d ever considered before. But the quote that “A hybrid is like a mermaid: if you want a fish, you get a woman; if you want a woman, you get […]
Nissan Leaf Revealed – 3 more Electric Cars to come
Nissan has revealed the Nissan Leaf EV at Tokyo and confirmed there are three more electric cars to come, including an electric Infiniti. We had the first information on Nissan’s Leaf EV a couple of months ago, at about the time GM were trumpeting the massive economy of the Chevy Volt. Nissan trumped their figures […]