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Better Place: Israel's electric car start-up killed by its own success - opinion

We must thank Better Place for helping to put the electrification of vehicles on the tech world’s agenda. 10 years later, its vision lives on.

 BETTER PLACE car.
A truly better place: A former Better Place switching station in Beit Shemesh has been repurposed as a tombstonemaking business.

What happened to Better Place's electric dreams?

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CHRISTIANS TO JUDEA AND SAMARIA

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The near miss


Letters to a Lost Soldier: Where is my Daddy who went to war?

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Why the Jews support anti-Jewish social movements?

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Are the Jews, when parting with a synagogue, abandoning God or just their congregation and rabbi?

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Romeo, Juliet & Baltimore

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Better Place battery swapping tech to live on in Chinese buses

ZAE signed the deal with China's Bustil to design 7,000 swap stations for Nanjing, the Capital of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China; If all goes well, taxis may be added to the mix as well.

Dr. Amir Ziv-Av and Ziva Patir (center) pay a visit to the BYD company's factory in Nanjing in the center

Israeli landscaping firm installs solar phone charging streetlamps

Project will provide a safe, well-lit place for residents on the move to charge their waning batteries, company says.

solar phone charging streetlamps.

Eddie and the white smoke

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Your Business: Independence from foreign oil just got stymied

Israel’s dependence on foreign energy imports is particularly alarming... Oil imports leave the country vulnerable as the number of cars on the roads increase.

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Carasso, Renault to service Better Place cars

The court ruled Renault and importer Carasso will maintain the 900 electric cars sold by Better Place before it went bankrupt.

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Better Energy: Oil versus light

The descendants of the Maccabees are spending about NIS 30 billion on oil for transportation, with a chunk of it going to regimes that don’t exactly appreciate the idea of religious freedom – especially for Jews.

HANUKKA MENORAHS in Jerusalem 311 (R)

IEC chairman: We’re opening the market to competition

Yiftach Ron-Tal: We're talking about 20-30% of electricity production being generated by independent producers.

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