Better Place Battery Switch Station Model

Short movie describing the benefits of the Better Place's revolutionary battery switch model

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Better Place
• Shai Agassi
• batttery switch station
• model
• battery switch
• electric cars
• electric car
• ev

[Eurobubble70]

this is the only way electric cars have a future in this world, if the energy density of the batteries increases also recharging time increases obviously and nobody is gonna wait 40 hours for a recharge, battery switch is the way to go.

[btrplc]

@Eurobubble70 Exactly. By building battery switch stations we are taking away all the range anxiety one might have when driving an electric car. The whole process is automated so you don't even have to get out of your car.

[zlozlozlo]

@Ultra4 I suggest you look further into the Better Place model. Electric cars are expensive because the battery is expensive. But with Better Place you don't buy the battery, you rent the battery. So the car is cheaper to buy than an ICE car. And the monthly subscribtion (battery rental + electricity) is less than what you'd pay for gasoline. Cheaper to buy, cheaper to operate. It's a WIN-WIN proposition.

[RichardJoash]

do you have plans to make electric cars and swap stations in the philippines?

[IndoPindaNL]

Imagine you make a trip of more than 500km on the highway with your EV. Due to your high average speed you will need to switch your battery after some 100 km. That will be in total more than 5 switches for your trip!

It is a nice system that Better Place has designed but it would be even nicer if the batteries had a range of more than 500km. Luckily IBM is working on this with Lithiumion-air batteries.

[johnson1095]

@Ultra4

prove it

[TheEEStudent]

Better Place should either break up with Renault and switch either to GM or to Chinese manufacturers, or take both Renault and other manufacturers. Renault can't meet the supply dates. 70,000 cars already ordered from Renault - only 100 cars supplied. The entire state of Israel is meshed with battery switch stations, which stand idle. Almost no cars. Maybe Agassi made a mistake signing with Renault to begin with. Its sad seeing battery switch stations, standing idle.

[philtheguide]

While the words of praise that I have for better place are practically endless; I still don't understand why the cars do not use regenerative breaking?

[semkras]

@Ultra4 Electric is not expensive than gas - approximatly 5-6 times cheaper to drive on electricity than gas and 8-9 times cheaper than petrol .

[Ultra4]

it's cheap to buy? :( no, that's the only problem, electric is much more expensive than gas, it's low maintenance and conscience burdenless (if clean electricity), but cheap to buy?... NO... when they are, i'll be a happy man